Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
International trade fair on millets and organics to kick off from January 20edit
The Indian Express – Online
The fourth edition of the Millets & Organics – International Trade Fair 2023 is all set to kick off from January 20. The two-day fair scheduled to take place at Tripuravasini Palace Ground is organised by the department of agriculture in collaboration with Karnataka State Agricultural Produce Processing and Export Corporation Limited (KAPPEC) and International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture (ICCOA). During a press conference Thursday, B C Patil, minister of agriculture, unveiled the website for the fourth edition of the international trade fair. The fair will feature an exhibition with over 300 stalls of more than 110 companies and an international pavilion with organisations from various countries.
Telangana sets new benchmarks in agriculture sectoredit
The Hans India – Online
Telangana has turned into an agrarian state with the vision of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who laid a special emphasis on the irrigation, power, and agriculture sector, which resulted in tremendous progress in the production of food grains. Along with agriculture, the allied sectors such as cattle, poultry, and livestock production has also gone up in the state and has become an important sector for the food processing industry. According to the officials, because of the infrastructure provided by the government for attracting investments in the food processing sector, investments have increased in the state.
Budget
Budget 2023: Agricultural R&D has made a huge difference and its outlay should be raisededit
Moneycontrol – Online
Investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) pays back many times over in increased production or reduced losses, as well as higher incomes. It requires a higher outlay in this year’s budget. Let me illustrate the multiplier effect of R&D with two examples. For about a decade until this year, Co 0238 was the preferred sugarcane variety for farmers in North India. It was developed at two sugarcane breeding centres of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), between 1997 and 2009. The cost, according to Bakshi Ram, its developer, was Rs 347 crore at 2020 prices. That was the budget of the two institutes for those years. It was commercialised in 2009. Between then and ...
Technology in Agriculture
Need to adopt new farming technologies to raise farmers’ income: Tomaredit
Business Standard – Online
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday stressed on the need to adopt new technologies in farming to help raise the income of farmers. He said this while speaking at the ‘North East Krishi Kumbha – 2023’ at the ICAR-NER. “With new age, there is a need to adapt to new technologies. Ensuring these technologies reach every farmer in India, in Meghalaya and help raise their income is the need of the hour,” he said. The Union Agriculture minister said farmers and farming should always be treated with honour as a farmer not only supports his family but also contributes to the agricultural economy of the country and our government’s priority ...