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Agriculture Industry
Agri growth falling, farmers suffering: Ex-minister hits out at Nitish Kumaredit
Hindustan Times – Online
Former Bihar agriculture minister Sudhakar Singh on Saturday once again hit out at chief minister Nitish Kumar for not taking the farmers’ issue seriously even after he raised the matter consistently. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA also dared the CM to select any constituency of his choice to get a feel of the public mood and opinion about his leadership. When asked about Singh’s charges that farmers were suffering in Bihar, the chief minister had on Friday said he (Sudhakar) did not know much and there was no need to take notice of such people.
Ashok Gulati and Ritika Juneja write: Lessons from Madhya Pradesh’s agriculture modeledit
The Indian Express – Online
India is today a $3.5 trillion economy. If the current growth trend continues, the country is likely to be a $5.4 trillion economy by 2027 (as per IMF forecast). The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have thrown the global economy into a spin and India’s ambitious target of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025 could be somewhat delayed, but it is definitely not out of reach. India seems to be on the right path and is doing pretty well — especially when compared to its progress in the first six decades after 1947. As per IMF, it took India almost 59 years since Independence to become a $0.95 trillion economy in 2006. ...
Dairy Farming
The pain inside poultry’s new pecking orderedit
Mint – Online
You may not see tears in my eyes. But my heart is crying. I cannot sleep at night thinking how to fend for my family. I cannot even buy my little girl a toy to play with.” Those are the words of Manideep Soni, a 30-year-old poultry farmer from Kudani village, about an hour’s ride from Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh. As a child, Soni had seen his father managing a small broiler farm, raising chickens for meat. That was once a profitable business—even a decade back, the family earned more than ₹1.5 lakh a year from the 3,500-bird farm. But for the past few years, it has been a recipe for disaster. Even before the ...
Technology in Agriculture
Odisha plans tech-model to estimate crop lossedit
The New Indian Express – Online
With farmers not happy with the existing crop-cutting experiments (CCEs) for yield estimates of paddy crops for insurance under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the state government has decided to go for technology intervention to overcome various limitations in the current system of crop yield estimation in the insurance units. It has been decided at a recent meeting of the state-level coordination committee on crop insurance that the cooperation department will sign a tripartite MoU with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad and Odisha Remote Sensing Application Centre (ORSAC) for implementing an alternative model of yield loss indemnity payment to affected farmers.