Agriculture

In order to give more freedom to farmers to sell their produce, the agriculture ministry has unveiled “The State/UT Agricultural Produce and Livestocks Marketing (promotion and facilitation) Act, 2017” which has defined each state/UT as a single unified market area. The draft law is proposed to overhaul the existing laws. ...

NEW DELHI: ‘Lakhpati tribal kisans’ have started emerging in Jharkhand, Gujarat, Odisha and Maharashtra in the last two years, thanks to the farm initiatives of Tata Trusts in 450 villages. The boost in farm income has been possible with the Trusts educating and training tribal households in small groups on ...

BHUBANESHWAR: Farmers interested in setting up betel vines in Odisha will now get financial assistance from the State government under the special crop specific scheme launched to promote betel leaf cultivation. They will be provided at least 50 per cent of the first year’s establishment cost. Each farmer developing a ...

Madhya Pradesh has wide spread area of 154.55 lakh hectare of agricultural land, in which 89.70 lakh hectare of land is irrigated. More over 27% of the irrigation is done by small, medium and large enterprises and rest 73 % of irrigation is done by diesel pumps. Apart from Government ...

Technology support is extremely vital for success of land based programme, specially in the development of Wastelands. Proper area specific strategy has to be developed keeping in view the Agro-Climatic conditions and capability of land. Realizing this, a Central Sector Scheme of TDET was launched during 1993-94 to develop suitable ...

Mumbai: Amidst demands of farm loan waiver in Maharashtra, the State government has announced ‘Advanced Farming – Enriched Farmer’ scheme, with an aim to increase farmers’ income by cutting production cost and increasing the output. The scheme will be launched in the upcoming kharif season. Under the initiative, the government ...

The Telangana government has completed the final round of a loan waiver scheme to the farmers in the state. The total quantum of loans waived now stands at `16,374 crore, benefiting over 35 lakh farmers. The loan waiver was one of the main poll promises of the ruling Telangana Rashtra ...

During the post independence era, a large number of irrigation projects were constructed for increasing agricultural production in   the country.   However, during early seventies analysis of irrigation potential created and utilised revealed that there was a substantial gap between them. To fill the gap, the Government of India initiated a ...

Agricultural Insurance in India is covered by “National Crop Insurance Programme” which was launched by UPA government in 2013 by merging three schemes viz. Modified National Agricultural insurance Scheme (MNAIS), Weather Based Crop insurance Scheme (WBCIS) and Coconut Palm Insurance Scheme (CPIS). These three schemes now serve as components of ...

The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry has launched pilot Revenue Insurance Scheme for Plantation Crops (RISPC) for protecting the growers from the risks such as pest attacks, yield loss and income decline caused by fall in prices. It was announced by Union Minister of State (MoS) Commerce and Industry ...