Mint – Online

A unique FinTech and AgriTech startup company, Growpital has put Rajasthan’s small TaraTara Math Village of Barmer on the national front by bagging a unique farming project. Growpital has bagged in the potato production contract, giving employment opportunities to farmers of this village across 25 acres of land from McCain Foods India. Barmer district lies in the Thar desert on the border with Pakistan. Dry weather and lack of groundwater for centuries had left no choice for the region but to cultivate limited crops such as bajra, chana, cumin, etc. In recent years, Barmer has started shaping lush fields of vegetables or orchards of fruits due to innovations in agriculture science and farmers’ hard work.

The New Indian Express – Online

The agricultural engineering department, in the month of October, handed out as many as 31 tractors to Tiruchy, which is the district’s share of the total of 185 tractors allotted to the delta districts by the state government. The high inrush of tractors spelled relief to farmers who were left a worried lot over a lack of equipment. Six of the tractors received have already been put into use, sources said. Until the previous year, the farmers of the 14 blocks in Tiruchy ploughed the fields with the 11 tractors available under the tractor hiring scheme. However, the farmers now anticipate ease of work as each of the blocks have been allotted three ...