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Agriculture Industry
Back PM-KISAN Scheme: Centre releases 13th installment of ₹16,800 Credit
Mint – Online
About eight crore eligible farmers will now get the 13th installment of Prime Minister Modi’s flagship PM-KISAN programme, worth Rs. 16,800 crore, effective on Monday. Prior to Holi and rabi harvesting, the national government announced that the payment will be released for direct transfer into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. The 11th and 12th instalments of the PM-KISAN plan were issued in May and October 2022. Each eligible beneficiary receives ₹6,000 yearly in three equal instalments of ₹2,000 under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Program. “Hon’ble Prime Minister will release the 13th instalment of the PM KISAN scheme on 27th Feb. 2023 at 03:00 PM,” stated PM Kisan portal.
Govt. Policies
Punjab’s draft agri policy to be in public domain by March end: Ministeredit
Hindustan Times – Online
Agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Monday held discussions with the representatives of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) regarding farmers’ issues of Punjab and the new agriculture policy. Agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Monday held discussions with the representatives of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) regarding farmers’ issues of Punjab and the new agriculture policy. In the meeting held here, president of the farm body Joginder Singh Ugrahan and general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri, suggested that there should be no unfair distribution of land and agricultural equipment, usury should be abolished and all round development of three main resources of agriculture such as water, land and human labour should be ensured.
Paddy in India
Telangana cultivated paddy even before creation of Andhra Stateedit
Telangana Today – Online
Call it arrogance or ignorance, but the leaders of Andhra Pradesh like TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu refuse to mend their ways when it comes to Telangana and its people. Though Telangana has been in the forefront in different sectors especially tank irrigation and agriculture, the rulers of Coastal Andhra continue to down play and ridicule Telangana. Naidu claimed that people of Telangana got to eat rice only after TDP came to power in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. However, little was he aware that Paddy was the second most important crop cultivated in Telangana after Cotton way back in 1950-51 before merging with Andhra to create Andhra Pradesh.
‘Centre not giving subsidy for paddy purchase on time’edit
The Times of India – Online
Cooperation minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak informed the assembly on Monday that though the Centre should provide subsidy in advance every three months for paddy procurement, it is not doing so regularly. Till February 24, Odisha was due to receive Rs 11,835 crore from the department of food and public distribution under the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution towards advance and provisional subsidy. Replying to an adjournment motion on the farmers’ plight in the assembly, Nayak said the state government has been taking all possible steps to make the paddy procurement process transparent, efficient and pro-farmers by availing bank loans. In the current procurement season, the Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation ...
Will govt’s efforts to boost paddy purchase pay off?edit
The Times of India – Online
On Tuesday when the deadline of paddy procurement in the ongoing Kharif marketing season comes to a close, it will become clear if the state is able to bounce back from the decline in paddy procurement it registered last year. Food and civil supplies department data show that the state has managed to procure 63.66 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of paddy till February 17. Significantly, this is almost 2 lakh MT less than last fiscal (2021-22) when the state government purchased 65.53 lakh MT . This, too, was around 1.3 lakh MT less than the 2020-21 figures when government procured 66.84 lakh MT, despite the pandemic.