-The Economic Times Dinkar Patil, a farmer from Buldhana district in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, normally cultivates cotton on his 13-acre farm land. This year, however, he has skipped the cotton crop and opted for soyabean and tur dal. "The rainfall started late. I did not cultivate cotton because of the delayed rains and the huge increase in cost of cultivation of the crop," said Patil. He is expecting a fall of about...
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Gruelling gram -GVR Subba Rao
-The Hindu With no takers for their produce, bengal gram farmers are caught between losses and auction notices issued by banks for loan recovery VIJAYAWADA (Andhra Pradesh): The cold storages in Andhra Pradesh are full to the brim with bengal gram stocks, with the farmers finding no takers for the produce. Close to 17.23 lakh quintals of bengal gram, mostly Kabul variety, is lying in cold storages as there is no remunerative...
More »Arid regions bear the brunt of climate change: Report
-The Times of India JAIPUR: The arid regions of Rajasthan are the worst sufferer of climatic changes, according to Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Jodhpur. Eleven districts in this zone have seen a rise in surface heating, reduction in rainfall, change in crop pattern and low milk productivity of livestock. The inference emerged after CAZRI analyzed climatic data of this region from 1913 to 2013. The latest data received from...
More »Land conundrum and the hunger games -Prasanna Mohanty & Kaushik Dutta
-The Financial Express A mechanism is needed to compensate farmers for not exercising their right to sell productive land but continue to grow foodgrains. India finds itself in a piquant situation. While its population, and with it the number of poor, is growing, its cultivable land is not only shrinking, more worryingly, the economic returns of the agricultural use are diminishing vis-a-vis non-agricultural use. The situation may not be alarming right now,...
More »Centre steps in to monitor food availability -Soma Basu
-Down to Earth Floods destroy standing crops; in July, hailstorm had damaged farms and orchards As floods washed away belongings of flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has intervened to ensure food availability to them. Union food and public distribution minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, has directed senior officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to camp at Srinagar and closely monitor the availability of food grains in the affected areas...
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