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Agriculture Industry
Need to increase production, processing of millet: Tomaredit
The Economic Times – Online
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday stressed the need to increase productivity, production and processing of millets and said an adequate quantity of millets should be consumed for meeting nutritional requirements. The minister was addressing industry chamber CII’s National Conference on Millets: Ensuring Climate Adaptation, Nutrition and Food Security. The United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millet (IYM) on the proposal of the Indian government. “Millets is an Indian grain and it is full of nutritional value,” Tomar said. Ads by
Govt. Policies
Nabard projects priority sector credit target of Rs 2.70 lakh cr for Bengal in FY24edit
The Print – Online
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday said it has projected a credit target of Rs 2.70 lakh crore for the priority sector lending in West Bengal in 2023-24 fiscal, which is 9.3 per cent higher than the previous year’s estimate. The bank had estimated Rs 2.47 lakh crore of credit potential under the priority sector lending in the state for the current financial year. Of the total credit potential under the priority sector for 2023-24 fiscal, the share of agriculture, including agri-infrastructure and ancillary activities, is 39.54 per cent and that of MSME is 44.26 per cent, Nabard Chief General Manager Usha Ramesh said.
Workshop thrust on bringing out improved crop varietiesedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Additional chief secretary, agriculture, government of UP, Devesh Chaturvedi said on Wednesday that private and government agencies needed to work together to bring out many more improved crop varieties. Addressing a workshop on ‘Biofortification – A pathway to improve India’s nutritional outcomes’, organized by FICCI here, Chaturvedi said, “We need to ensure that the soil health does not decrease.” The conference aimed to provide a platform for all stakeholders to outline the opportunities in biofortified crops in eradicating malnutrition and deliberate on actions required at the policy and operational level to unleash the potential of biofortified crops in the country.
Paddy in India
Paddy procurement under MSP reaches 99 lakh metric tonnesedit
The Times of India – Online
Chhattisgarh’s paddy procurement under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme has reached 98.92 lakh metric tonnes till January 16 this year during current marketing year 2022-23. A quantity of 98 lakh metric tonnes of paddy was purchased in the previous marketting year 2021-22. The state government has set a target of procuring 110 lakh metric tonnes of paddy in the current Kharif season. It is estimated that this target will also be easily achieved from the initiative of the farmers and the arrival of paddy seen in the paddy procurement centers, said a release.