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Agriculture Industry
Haryana maize growers suffer losses as prices fall 50% below MSPedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The reports from mandis from northern districts of the state reveal that in the absence of government agencies, private buyers are buying maize crop at ₹900 to ₹1,400 a quintal against the MSP of ₹1,962 fixed for the 2022-23. Maize growers in Haryana suffer huge losses as they have to sell their produce to private buyers around 50% below the minimum support price (MSP) fixed by the Centre.
How to put Indian agriculture back on growth pathedit
Fortune – India
Providing a source of livelihood to 70% of rural households, the Indian agriculture sector has grown at an average rate of 4.6% over the last six years. However, despite our country rapidly emerging as a large exporter of agricultural products, the growth rate of Indian agriculture and allied sectors has dropped to 3% in 2021-22 from 6.8% in 2016-17. While multiple factors – like fragmented landholdings, sub-optimal mechanisation, and low productivity – have impeded the growth of the sector, a slew of indicators suggest the sheen is wearing off Indian agriculture.
Dairy Farming
Dairy Food System: The Kashmir Scenarioedit
Rising Kashmir – Online
Kashmir valley provides lucrative drivers for establishment of commercial dairying, whether social, political, cultural, economical or environmental. Population growth, urbanization, emerging middle class, pressure on land and social tensions around youth unemployment rates provide the much-needed demographic drivers, while loss of agro-biodiversity, in this otherwise bio resource rich Himalayan valley, shrinking water resources and climate change provide the compelling environmental drivers.
Paddy in India
830 Lakh Tonne Paddy Procured Benefiting 1.22 Cr Farmers: Food Ministryedit
Business World – Online
Over 830 lakh tonne paddy has been procured from farmers at Minimum Support Price (MSP) benefitting about 1.22 crore during the ongoing paddy procurement operations of marketing season 2022-23. Payments worth Rs 171,000 crore have so far been transferred directly into their accounts, an official release from the food ministry said Wednesday. Food Corporation of India, the nodal central agency, along with other state agencies undertakes procurement of paddy under the price support scheme (at MSP). Those procured paddy is then milled to make rice and distributed to the public under various food security schemes.