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Agriculture Industry
Agriculture Ministry Releases First Advance Estimates for Kharif Crop Production in 2023-24edit
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare continues to monitor and update these estimates to provide accurate information for policymakers, farmers, and other stakeholders.
Sharad Pawar responds to PM criticism: ‘During my tenure as agriculture minister, India became self-sufficient in food production’edit
The Rajya Sabha MP added that during UPA, India, which was earlier an importer of foodgrains, became an exporter. “We extended the farm loan waiver of Rs 62,000 crore to control the increasing number of farmer suicides,” he said.
Pawar says his tenure as Union agriculture minister saw rise in MSPs, launch of key missionsedit
A senior leader of Maharashtra served as the country’s agriculture minister. I personally respect him, but what has he done for farmers, PM Modi said.
Govt. Policies
The Changing Role of Agriculture in the Global Climate Policy Regimeedit
he UNFCCC treaty of 1992 conceived of the agriculture sector primarily as a site of adaptation. However, there has been increasing pressure in the global climate regime to reconfigure agriculture into a site of deep emission cuts to meet the Paris temperature targets. Land-based mitigation measures—as opposed to adaptation measures—are prioritised and promoted by influential sections, including developed countries and international development and climate organisations.
The emphasis on mitigation is an extension of the strategy of developed countries to transfer the responsibility of deep emission reductions to developing countries in the context of the failure of the former to undertake deep emission reductions in the decades following the establishment of the UNFCCC.