Development of robust agri-food value chains (FVC) are extremely important in India to capitalise on the gains made in production in recent years. It is the key to ensuring that our small and marginal farmers also partake in the spin-off benefits from the country.

The government is committed to promote the use of additional farm machinery in the coming years to achieve improvement in awareness about diverse utilization of mechanization and credit support so that access to the latest technologies is not a constraint, Parshottam Rupala.

The Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers, DV Sadananda Gowda, addressed the Valedictory Session of the Fertilizer Association of India (FAI) Annual Seminar on ‘New Approach to Fertilizer Sector’,

In a bid to keep ‘agripreneurs’ updated with government’s various schemes, Punjab Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (Pameti) organized a training program on “Awareness about RKVY and MGNREGA”

Around 100 farmers in Kothey Salehar village in Bishnah participated in the first-ever scientists-farmers interaction to bring a change in their agriculture practices which are being affected by climate change.

Amid growing focus on modernisation of agriculture to make it more sustainable and progressive for farmers, the Punjab government is set to leverage the upcoming Progressive Punjab Investors Summit 2019

Armenia is at the dawn of a new era. The country has recently introduced agricultural insurance to protect poor small farmers against weather and climate risks, thereby helping to make them economically more successful. Farmers in six regions can now take out insurance policies to protect them from hail, frost, and fire. More will follow.

Activists of the Kisan Sangharsh Committee on Sunday started an agitation outside a Sugar Mill at Butar Sevian village belonging to a prominent political leader of the ruling party. They were holding agitation against the mill after its management refused to mill sugarcanes of several farmers belonging to the Hargobindpur area.

National Centre of Organic Farming, Ghaziabad, is organizing 30- day certificate course on organic farming, in collaboration with Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu.

Farm Income is the excess of income from the sale of his sale of produce over his expenditure incurred on producing the same. The equation, therefore, has three components:

VIA Agro & Rural Development Forum and Indo Israel Krishi Vikas Sanstha organized a Session cum discussion on ‘Opportunities in exporting Agri products’ at VIA Auditorium Nagpur recently. Dr. Govind Hande, Ex-Technical Officer Agriculture Department,

National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) coordinated a pilot project on 25 'Climate Smart' Agricultural Techniques in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, States considered vulnerable to the effects of climate change, between 2015 and 2019.

The Punjab Government has framed new rules and regulations for the sale of insecticides and pesticides making it mandatory for the dealers to mention the name of the insect/pest and also the name of the crop for which it has been purchased by the farmer.

Normally, a sector’s credit off-take is a sign of its health. Higher the off-take, the better the sector’s performance. There has been a healthy off-take of ground-level credit (GLC) in agriculture and allied sectors. In the financial year (FY) 2018-19, banks disbursed Rs 12.55 trillion as GLC to agriculture, surpassing the government’s target of Rs 11 trillion.

Almost 22% of the groundwater (assessed units) in the country has either dried up or is in the ‘critical’ and ‘over-exploited’ categories, said Union Jal Shakti (water resources) minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday as he emphasised the need to focus on efficient use of water resources.