Tag: Agriculture

Government to bring model by-laws to govern all farm cooperatives

Calling the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) pillars of the cooperative movement, Union Minister for Cooperation Amit Shah advocated strengthening of the PACS by diversifying them into various other activities.

August 12, 2022

All eyes on the President’s management of food shocks

While the government’s inclination for importation has been blamed for the lackluster performance, there are other major factors at play that have influenced agricultural production.

July 21, 2022

Broad strokes for the future

Under his presidency, Marcos Jr. highlighted that food sufficiency will get preferential treatment, elating various agricultural groups that had criticized the import policy of the previous administration.

July 6, 2022

How heat waves hit women farmers

As the crops fail more often, the men take contracts for migrant work, handing over papers and passports to recruiters who organise travel to nearby cities or faraway countries.

July 2, 2022

Farmers must benefit

If agriculture is identified as the main advantage of the country, other entities must rely on that advantage to develop.

July 1, 2022

Center, States together engaged in holistic development of northeast including Nagaland: Agriculture Minister Tomar

Tomar expressed the hope that the farmers of this region will lead a new revolution in the development of horticulture.

June 27, 2022

How can the WTO help its weaker members?

The WTO has termed the outcome of the MC12 successful, saying that the organisation has secured multilaterally negotiated outcomes on some key trade issues.

June 26, 2022

‘Start-ups need access to data & market to tackle tech adoption in agri’

Addressing the 2nd edition of the International Conference on ‘Artificial Intelligence & Digital applications in Agriculture’, organized by FICCI, jointly with German Agribusiness Alliance, Ms Roy said that the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence released by NITI Aayog in June 2018 identifies agriculture as one of the focus areas. The benefits of applying AI in the agriculture are immense.

May 19, 2022

Land use management is vital to save arable land

As per agriculture census 2014, about 86 per cent of Indian farmers own less than two hectares of land. Hence, most Indian farmers are ‘economically marginalized’ and they are unable to earn enough to run their families. This dearth of liquid cash forces them to seek refuge in rapidly industrialising urban centres across the nation.

April 1, 2022

FM’s Kisan Drones announcement boost for sector: Garuda Aerospace

Presenting the Budget in the Parliament Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: "Use of 'Kisan Drones' will be promoted for crop assessment, digitisation of land records, spraying of insecticides, and nutrients."

February 1, 2022

Govt proposes over Rs 1 lac cr for agriculture sector, stresses ‘Kisan Drones’ in crop management

Besides, the government has also proposed to allocate Rs 6037 to the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Diaring and another Rs 2,941 crore to the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, the Finance Minister budget provisions made by the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

February 1, 2022

Agriculture sector registers an upward trend, reveals survey

The share of the agriculture and allied sector in total Gross Value Addition (GVA) of the economy has settled at around 18 per cent in the long term. “In the year 2021-22 it is 18.8 per cent and in the year 2020-21 it was 20.2 per cent,” the survey stated.

January 31, 2022

Agriculture sector contributes 20.2 % to the GVA of Indian economy

The data of the National Statistical Office (NSO) further revealed that the percentage of usually working persons engaged in the Agriculture Sector is 45.6 %, which means out of every hundred persons in India 45 are engaged directly or indirectly to the Agriculture Sector.

December 24, 2021

PM exhorts farmers to adapt agriculture to new requirements, challenges

Addressing farmers at the National Conclave on Natural Farming through video conferencing, the Prime Minister said that in the last 6-7 years, the Central government had taken several steps to improve the conditions of farmers in the country.

December 16, 2021

A Disaster Averted?

To add value to foodstuffs, corporates engaged in farming go in for food processing in a large way, which is at the expense of public health, because consumption of calorie-dense processed food, often leads to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. Statistics show that spending on health has gone up gone from 5 per cent to 16 per cent of national income in the USA in the last 70 years, the period in which the country switched over to industrial farming

December 4, 2021

Centre told states government there is ample production of fertilizer

The Fertilizer Dashboard that has been operational since the past about two months, and the Control Room which has been working 24x7 for effective coordination between States and the Centre for ensuring adequate fertilizer availability in various districts, the Minister said.

November 23, 2021

Full Circle

The balance of trade is against the agricultural sector, because prices of agricultural produce have risen much more slowly than the prices of items of general consumption, while the cost of agricultural inputs like fertilisers, pesticides and diesel have risen exponentially. The distress in the agricultural sector vis-à-vis the rest of the economy becomes apparent once we note that 45 per cent of our population is engaged in agriculture which accounts for only 17 per cent of the GDP

November 23, 2021