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Joy of bumper paddy yield remains short-lived-T Karnakar Reddy

-The Hindu   Farmers are again at the receiving end due to delay in procurement NALGONDA (Andhra Pradesh): The delight of getting a good paddy yield during the season was short-lived as the Farmers had much difficulty in selling their produce and the unprepared and short-staffed district administration failed to stop millers from exploiting Farmers in the district. Farmers cultivated paddy in more than 2 lakh hectares, highest in the recent past and second...

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Bumper crop-but no smiles on faces of Punjab's Farmers-Jaideep Sarin

-IANS   A bumper wheat crop this season should have brought smiles on the faces of Punjab's hard-working Farmers. But a variety of adverse circumstances, including the weather, has left them dispirited. The bumper crop apart, Punjab Farmers have been forced to deal with unseasonal rainfall and thunderstorms in recent days with the harvested crop lying in the open in grain markets and agricultural fields getting wet and moisture content in the grains...

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Midday meal goes organic-Savvy Soumya Misra

-CivilSocietyOnline.com   Cunoor (Tamil Nadu): The holidays have begun but children arrive at the Denalai Upper Primary School, giggling and whispering excitedly. They have come to proudly flaunt their organic kitchen garden where they grow vegetables and herbs for the school's midday meal. Nestled in the Nilgiris, the school has 38 students. Most of them belong to Denalai, a Baduga village. The Badugas are a tribal community, primarily cultivators, who are known...

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El Nino likely to cause loss of Rs 1,80,000 crore this year: ASSOCHAM -Soma Basu

-Down to Earth Studies indicate high food inflation As Met office predicts below normal rainfall because of El Nino this year, a study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has projected a 1.75 per cent GDP reduction and loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the unskilled sector. The report released recently says that five per cent deficit rainfall forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) will...

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Farmers will get unique ID number

-The Business Standard   Agriculture dept has begun the process of collecting data on Farmers and their lands Mysore (Karnataka): Process is on to provide unique identification numbers, similar to ‘Aadhaar' issued by the Unique Identification of Authority of India, to Farmers in Karnataka. Under the scheme, all details about Farmers and their lands, collected under the ‘K-Kisan' scheme, will be pooled and a unique identification number like the ‘Aadhaar' will be issued to...

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