-The Hindu Kannur (Kerala): The ‘kaipad' rice cultivated in the brackish water tracts of northern parts of the State has been included in the Geographical Indications (GI) registry in the country which is part of the Intellectual Property regime. The notification of inclusion of the ‘kaipad' rice varieties in the GI registry followed an application submitted by the Malabar Kaipad Farmers' Society (MKFS) of Ezhome here. The society has been formed for...
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Union budget: Vidarbha Farmers demand Rs 30,000 cr package
-PTI The group has also urged the govt to constitute a national-level Commission, which looks into measures to prevent Farmer suicides Nagpur: Farmers in the Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have demanded a Rs 30,000 crore development package from the upcoming Union Budget. In view of the neglected Farmers, it was high time that the central government looks at agrarian crisis seriously in Vidarbha and announce a hefty development package, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS)...
More »With paddy season in, Farmers out in search of migrant labour -Sachin Sharma
-The Hindustan Times Bhatinda: With the paddy transplantation season set to start from June 10 across the state officially, Farmers have started search for the labour and are making rounds of railway stations and bargaining hard with the migrant workers to fix the deal. As the Farmers had faced acute shortage of workforce in the last paddy season in the state, they are making sure that they do not have to...
More »Direct marketing by Farmers not yielding desired fruits -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Farmers' groups point to lack of marketing support, MSAMB blames internal shortcomings. Pune: Almost two years after the state government introduced the concept of direct selling of fruits and vegetables by Farmers' groups, lack of awareness drives and internal shortcomings seem to have impeded its success. At present, 68 Farmers' groups are directly selling their products at 226 locations in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. The initiative to allow Farmers to directly...
More »Pest attack troubles sugarcane Farmers -Giji K Raman
-The Hindu Woolly aphid cases were first reported in 2006 MARAYUR (IDUKKI DISTRICT, Kerala): The attack of woolly aphid, a pest that lives on plant fluids, has considerably affected the sugarcane cultivation here. The disease, locally known as White Aswini, can result in low jaggery production as it sucks the sweet cells of the sugarcane. A senior agriculture officer here told The Hindu that the disease was first noticed in 2006 and it spread...
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