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Narmada water to be pumped into dams in Saurashtra for Rabi cropsedit
The Indian Express – Online
WITH AN aim to make augment the supply of irrigation water for Rabi crops this year in the water-starved Saurashtra region, the Gujarat government on Friday decided to pump 15420 million cubic feet (mcft) of Narmada waters to various dams and check-dams of Saurashtra through the extensive pipeline network of Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana. In an official release, Agriculture Minister Raghavji Patel said that the state government is making concerted efforts to make irrigation water available to farmers and that as part of it, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has decided to fill dams of Saurashtra region with Narmada waters through SAUNI Yojana.
India’s rabi crops sowing rises 4.4 pc led by wheatedit
The Print – Online
Farmers in India have sown rabi crops across 620.62 lakh hectares as of Friday, an increase of 4.4 per cent year-on-year from the previous cropping season, Union farm ministry data showed. During the same period last year, the total acreage was 594.62 lakh hectares. The increase in crop area is across all crops with the highest in wheat. Out of the 25.99 lakh hectares increase in all rabi crops, the increase in wheat area is 9.65 lakh hectares from 302.61 to 312.26 lakh hectares. Though the sowing of rabi crops is still under progress, the area brought under wheat this year (312.26) till 23-12-2022 is more than the normal rabi sown area (304.47) and the ...
UP needs to double growth of agriculture sector, says CM Yogiedit
The Statesman – Online
UP Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, said on Friday that the state needs to double the growth in the field of agriculture to become the engine of the country’s largest economy. The Chief Minister said it as he was addressing the Kisan Samman Diwas-2022 after inaugurating the exhibition of products of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in Lucknow. He said Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched a number of programmes as soon as he came to power in 2014, in an effort to fulfill Chaudhary Saheb’s dream, and transform the lives of the “Annadata” farmers, and double their income. The Chief Minister said that PM Modi’s leadership, the Farmers Crop Insurance Scheme, was launched for the first time ...