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Agriculture Ministry To Host Millet Food Festival In Parliament On December 20edit
Indian Education Dairy – Online
Celebrating the International Year of Millets (IYM) in 2023, Agriculture Ministry is hosting a Millet food festival in Parliament for the members on 20th of December. In this regard today, Minister of State for Agriculture Shobha Karandlaje reviewed the preparations with the senior Agriculture and ICAR officials. During the Millet food festival, branding of Millet and recipes will be displayed and millet-based food items be served to the Members of Parliament in the Parliament House premises. In recent, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, organized an opening ceremony for the International Year of Millets – 2023 (IYM2023) in Rome, Italy. The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, accepted the proposal by Prime ...
Govt. Policies
Centre disbursed Rs 2.24 lakh crore to 11.5 cr farmers under its scheme: Ministeredit
The Print – Online
The government on Friday told Parliament that Rs 2.24 lakh crore has gone directly into the accounts of 11.5 crore farmers across the country under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary said the agriculture budget under the Modi government has gone up from Rs 23,000 crore in 2013 to this year’s Rs 1,32,000 crore. “Of this, more than half, which is around Rs 65,000 crore, is being paid directly to farmers through DBT… An amount of Rs 2,24,000 crore has gone directly into the accounts of 11.5 crore farmers as part of Kisan Samman Nidhi,” he told the ...
Paddy in India
Sand deposits due to flood hit paddy cultivation in Assam’s Dhemajiedit
The Print – Online
The waters may have receded in Medhipamua and over 500 villages of the country’s most flood-prone Dhemaji district, bordering Arunachal Pradesh, but peoples’ woes are far from over as the sand deposited by the mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries pose a serious threat to their primary livelihood of paddy cultivation. Agriculture is the mainstay of Assam’s worst flood-hit district, which was once considered the ‘rice bowl’ of the state and its community, mostly comprising the Mising tribe though in some areas there is a mixed population of Hajong, Bodo and Sonowal tribes along with Nepalis who live in villages located along the river.
Stubble Burning
Stubble management machines: Sold off by farmers, lost in pilferage but no Punjab vigilance bureau probe yetedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Four months have passed since agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, directed in the month of August, for an inquiry by the state’s investigating agency, vigilance bureau, into subsidised machines given to farmers for paddy stubble management ‘going missing’ during the past four years, the state’s top brass is still pondering over the matter. Sources say the matter is pending with the chief minister’s office as farmers, construed as tangible force in the state, the government doesn’t want to antagonise them by initiating a vigilance probe. Other than the farmers, who have been the beneficiaries of the subsidy scheme, machine manufacturers, dealers, and some department officials are also in the line of fire. Instead of VB ...
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Nigeria Launches 10-Year Document to Achieve Rice Self-Sufficiencyedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The German International Cooperation (GIZ) backs the 10-year plan, which will be implemented from 2020 to 2030. It aims to guide the development of the rice subsector to achieve the government’s goals of self-sufficiency in rice production, food and nutrition security, job creation, and surplus production for export. During the launch in Abuja, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Baba Shehuri, explained that CARP, formerly known as the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), is a platform dedicated to the productivity and sustainability of the rice industry to ensure the competitiveness of Nigerian rice and the sustainability of the Nigeria rice sector.