The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal to hike subsidy rates for phosphorus and potassium-based fertilizers by 140% in a bid to provide relief to farmers as the kharif sowing season begins.

Senior BJP leader, Parshottam Rupala who has recently been given charge of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying said that Centre would share the premium subsidy for PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) up to 90% for the North eastern states from the existing 50:50 sharing ratio.

The Centre on Thursday (1 July 2021) launched a special drive to enrol more farmers under its crop insurance scheme known as Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY).

"Thunderstorm with lightning/hail/gusty winds/ squall [likely] over Sub- Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Jharkhand and Bihar on 30th April; Odisha on 30th April and 01st May; Gangetic West Bengal, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada during 30th April-02nd May and Vidarbha and Telangana on 01st May," said a notice by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday.

After Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands, Lakshadweep and Ladakh are proactively taking steps for the transformation of their traditional organic areas to certified organic, it said.

Farmers are harvesting rabi (winter) crops sown in the 2020-21 crop year (July-June). Wheat is the main rabi crop. Releasing the latest data, the Agriculture Ministry said: "As a result of the proactive steps taken, harvesting of rabi crops is on schedule and timely procurement is also being ensured for the benefit of the farmers."

The commodities which posted significant positive growth in exports were wheat, non basmati rice, soya meal, spices, sugar, raw cotton, fresh and processed vegetables and alcoholic beverages.

The study, supported by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), found that scaling up sustainable agriculture would be critical to improve farm incomes and bolster India's nutrition security in a climate-constrained future. States such as Andhra Pradesh and Sikkim have already taken a lead in sustainable agriculture.

The minister said modern technology will help in making the agriculture sector profitable and also attracting youth towards farming.

This year, Baisakhi celebrations stepped beyond the traditional places of worship onto the dividers facing Matka Chowk.

To date, crops have been sown on 67.87 lakh hectares against 58.26 lakh hectares during the corresponding period of last year, an increase by 9.61 lakh hectares, the Agriculture Ministry said.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday launched a portal for online registration to achieve traceability system in sourcing of honey and other beehive products, as part of the government’s effort to ensure quality and check adulteration.

The growth in business was helped by various schemes announced by the government, rejigging of processes and products done by the institution and also as it encouraged clients, institutions and state governments to avail the benefits of the schemes as much as possible for faster developments, Nabard Chairman said.

The release of the CCL would facilitate the state government in making timely payments to farmers against purchases of food grains in the current season, which would begin from April 10 and culminate on May 31, the statement said.

Dr HK Chaudhry, Vice-Chancellor, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, has ordered that all under-graduate and post graduate classes of the constituent colleges will remain suspended till 15 April in compliance with the orders of the state government.

The Agriculture Department has been organising various camps for farmers in the district. The department targets to hold 77 camps till April 30.

A farmer fair was organized by the Department of Agriculture under the successful farmer-prosperous Punjab Campaign in village Kot Dharam Chand Kalan.

The committee is considering the objections and suggestions taking into consideration all aspects related to safety, toxicity, efficacy, updated status of submission of required study and data, among others, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said.

Kincentric has awarded the recognition to Bayer India for the fourth time in succession

A rebate of Rs 256 crore has been given on the amount of Rs 511.26 crore paid. A total of 5,82,114 farmers have paid the arrears. The highest arrears have been paid in the Pune division, an official statement from MSEDCL has said today.

The council, after a meeting to discuss the current scenario in the sector and the Assembly election, regretted that though there was surplus food production in the country, individual farmers were facing financial distress.

The government has allocated Rs 2,700 crore in 2021-22 for the price stabilisation fund (psf) used to buy buffer stock of onion and pulses. This is 35% more than the budgetary allocation of 2020-21.

It requires a diversified approach that takes into account peculiarities and constraints of states, investment in infrastructure and linking farmer producer groups with markets.

CM says aim is to double income of farmers

Based on the inputs from cane-producing states, the government had pegged sugar production initially at 31 million tonnes for the current year. The sugar production would be slightly lower than the initial estimate in both Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the country's top two sugar-producing states.

Some pass their time chit-chatting about the ongoing protests, others while smoking bidis or cigarettes, but all of them sound worried about loads of sugarcane drying under a scorching sun, while Punjabi and Haryanvi songs continue to blare out loudly, either from their mobiles or small speakers fitted in their vehicles.

While all other sectors faced a massive hit owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, agriculture sector is expected to report a whopping 11

Technological and institutional innovations could help farmers deal better with erratic monsoon, secure their livelihoods.

The Jute corporation of India (JCI) is the central government's nodal agency to undertake price support operations.

Modi said the reforms in this sector should have been ushered in some decades back and the country should move ahead without delay in post-harvest value addition.

Rains continue to be the main source of water for irrigation for a chunk of the country’s farmers.

Successive Governments have been trust worthy for farmers. The prima facie evidence of this trust is the response of farmers to green revolution in crops, white revolution in milk, yellow revolution in oilseeds, silver revolution in eggs carrying India to top rank in milk and second rank in all others in agriculture.

Successive Governments have been trust worthy for farmers. The prima facie evidence of this trust is the response of farmers to green revolution in crops, white revolution in milk, yellow revolution in oilseeds, silver revolution in eggs carrying India to top rank in milk and second rank in all others in agriculture.

The CM also announced setting up of a new Electricity Distribution Company for agriculture.

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".

At the last meeting between Central Ministers and farmer leaders on January 22, the unions held out for full repeal, but the Centre said it had no further concessions to offer