-The Indian Express Agriculture Ministry’s harvest estimates don’t square with drought conditions in several cases, raise serious questions of credibility. We have had two consecutive drought years, yet India’s milk production, according to the Agriculture Ministry, has risen from 137.69 million tonnes (mt) in 2013-14 to 146.31 mt in 2014-15 and 160.35 mt in 2015-16. Never before has the country’s milk output grown at these rates — that too, in the face...
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Are We Ready For The Bumper Harvests? -Sandeep Sabharwal
-Business World It is time for mainstream approach to change so that warehousing industry is perceived as a services sector. Warehouses can become the distribution centres pan India India is the world's second-largest fruit producer, with an annual production of 46.8 million tons, accounting for 10 per cent of global fruit production. It is also the world's second-largest vegetable producer, with an output of 90.85 million tons, accounting for 14 per cent...
More »Government taking measures to control prices of pulses
-PTI NEW DELHI: With pulses still ruling as high as Rs 200 per kg, the government today said it is taking several measures to boost domestic output and imports, besides taking action against hoarders to control rates. "The central government is taking several measures to control the price rise of pulses," Agriculture Ministry said in a statement. "On one hand, the government is trying to give relief to citizens by importing pulses from...
More »Pulses and oilseed area rising in AP and Telangana as Kharif progresses -B Dasarath Reddy
-Business Standard Unlike in the previous years, both the states have received normal to excess rainfall from June till July 12 Hyderabad: Pulses, oil seeds and maize are among the top crops that are leading the ongoing Kharif sowings in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, even though there is still a couple of more weeks left for the sowing of irrigated dry (ID) crops during the current season. In Telangana, pulses and soybean...
More »drought, rain: MP farmers caught in nature's fury -Deshdeep Saxena
-The Times of India Bhopal: Reeling under drought sometime back, farmers in as many as 13 districts of the state are now bearing the brunt of floods and will have to resort to re-sowing of kharif crops. The farmers are now waiting for overcast sky to clear up so that the waterlogged fields become accessible for re-sowing. Before the deluge, the sowing was already late and kharif crops could be sowed only...
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