Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Nation-building efforts in G-20 and India as an emerging leaderedit
The Times of India – Online
The Group of Twenty is a leading avenue for global economic cooperation. It plays a vital role in shaping and strengthening the international structure and the governance of almost all economic activities. India holds the presidency of G-20 wef 01 Dec 2022 to 30 Nov 2023. The G20 came into being in 1999, after the financial crisis in Asia, as a platform for Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to deliberate on global economic and financial issues. The G-20 was upgraded to the Heads of State/Government level in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis of 2007. In 2009, it was assigned as the leading forum for global economic cooperation.
FCI to miss wheat procurement targetedit
Mint – Online
Food Corp India will miss the wheat procurement target of 34.5 million tonnes during the 2023-24 April-March Rabi marketing season due to stocking by private traders and farmers holding back their produce. “FCI will not be able to procure its estimated set target for wheat as private traders and millers are offering more remunerative prices to purchase farmers’ produce. This will result in about 26 million tonnes wheat procurement this season,” the agency’s chairman and managing director Ashok Meena said.
Millets Will Stabilise Food Productionedit
The Citizen – Online
Faced by the vagaries of climate change and its highly damaging impact on agriculture, we need to look at ways of building resilience into our food systems and ensuring an adequate supply of food grains. Millets can be a big part of the solution. Millets as a food crop were well known in India and widely used. Many kinds of these small, nutritious grains were eaten as rice and some like Ragi (Eleucine Coracana) were made into a flour and then into roti. This changed after the Green Revolution but the change was seen more in North India where millets practically disappeared from daily diets . This did not happen in the South however where ...
Technology in Agriculture
Innovations in crop protection helping in mitigating crop damageedit
Krishi Jagat – Online
India is one of the global players in the agricultural industry. Despite this, the market deals with crop protection as a major challenge that impacts the demand-supply chain. While at one end, farmers lose a significant portion of their income due to crop damage; at the other end, a major section of the population suffers due to shortage of food. But with technological advancements transforming the agricultural industry, new trends in crop management and protection are emerging. These innovations will not only benefit the farmers but help the country reach closer to its goal of attaining food security and fighting malnutrition.
Govt. Policies
Government will extend all help to rain-hit ryots: Andhra Ministersedit
The New Indian Express – Online
State ministers have assured the farmers affected by unseasonal rains that the government will stand by them in the time of crisis. Speaking to mediapersons on Monday, Social Welfare Minister Merugu Nagarjuna said the farmers, who suffered crop loss, will be adequately compensated and the wet and discoloured paddy will be procured by the government at support price. “Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is reviewing the situation everyday, has directed officials to ensure that not a single farmer suffers losses and take measures to compensate them adequately for the loss caused by rains,” Nagarjuna said. Taking stock of the situation in Tanuku of West Godavari district, Civil Supplies Minister Karumuri Venkata ...
Paddy in India
Paddy area falls 7%, oilseeds down 7.5%edit
The Financial Express – Online
Sowing area under summer crops — rice, pulses, millets and oilseeds — is marginally down so far at 6.77 million hectare (MH) compared to previous year, according to the agriculture ministry data on Monday. The sowing area under rice and oilseeds (groundnut, sunflower and sesamum) has declined by 7% and 7.5%, respectively year-on-year. The area under coverage for rice was 2.75 MH so far against 2.97 MH in the year-ago period. Pulses, including greengram and black gram acreage, rose 6.5% 1.88 MH from 1.76 MH. Area under millets and coarse cereals rose by 6.7% to 1.14 MH from 1.07 MH a year ago.