Gujarat Government’s Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Department has won two prestigious national awards, one under ambitious Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Yojna and the other for technological innovation in the agricultural sector.

The 3-day agriculture fair, organized by Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, concluded on Monday in Banda.

‘45% of seeds and fertilizers sold in district last year was sub-standard’

"The government is committed to the cause of the farmers," Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will present a road map reimagining agriculture for future challenges before the governing council of Niti Aayog in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.

The Supreme Court-appointed panel on the new farm laws on Thursday said it held consultations with top officials of the ministries of agriculture, food processing industries and consumer affairs on the legislations against which farmers have been protesting at Delhi’s borders for nearly three months now

New projects by district panchayat The Ernakulam District Panchayat budget for 2021-22 has laid out a clear programme of agricultural development over the next year.

Free power, highly subsidised urea and open-ended procurement have become a deadly cocktail that are eating away the natural wealth of Punjab.

Experts say that with Model Act 2018 already in place, there was no need to bring the new law in 2020. Rather, some amendments could have been made to the earlier law to make it more farm-friendly.

There is a need to take a comprehensive view for a new economic model in the backdrop of the highly distorted economic inequality, impending large-scale job losses sealing opportunity for shifting people from agriculture to other sectors.

Now, those engaging in growbag farming needn’t any longer bother about the poor yield mainly attributed to the poor quality of red topsoil used for the purpose.

In 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had set a highly ambitious target of doubling farmers incomes by 2022. An inter-ministerial committee on "Doubling of Farmers' Income" was set up in April 2016 to recommend strategies to achieve this goal.

The chief minister said a student from Jhansi has boosted strawberry cultivation in Bundelkhand, and had also organised a 'Strawberry Mahotsav' there.

Tomar also said the pro-poor schemes of the government have brought a change in the lives of people living in villages.

While virtually inaugurating the centenary celebrations of the historic Chauri Chaura incident, PM Modi said people across India will have to take a pledge that the "unity of the country is its priority and its respect is above everything".