-News18.com A team constituted by Bijnor District Officer Umesh Kumar is investigating the matter. A portion of the proposed seven-and-a-half-kilometre road, constructed by the Irrigation Division in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor, broke at the time of the inaugural ceremony. The incident occurred in the presence of the BJP MLA Suchi Chaudhary. The government had sanctioned an amount of Rs 1,16,38000 for the construction of the road. Following the embarrassing situation, the district magistrate...
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Drones may be deployed to expedite crop insurance claim settlements -KA Martin
-The Hindu Agriculture Insurance Company looks at technology-aided assessment methods Agriculture Insurance Company (AIC) of India Limited, the public sector organisation engaged in providing insurance cover for various crops, is in discussions with various commodity boards for exclusive crop-specific insurance schemes. A senior official of the Agriculture Insurance Company said that one of the goals of the company was to speed up settlement of insurance claims by farmers and the company was exploring...
More »Debunking the myth of APMCs regulating agricultural marketing in a real world
When one of the three farm laws i.e., The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 was enacted last year, it was argued by its proponents that the legislation would allow the farmers to sell their produce (and the traders to purchase that produce) outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee-APMC mandis after crop harvesting. In a way, that particular piece of legislation was enacted to end the...
More »The south Indian farmers turning from oil palm to Coconut -Sharada Balasubramanian and Jency Samuel
-TheThirdPole.net Farmers and consumers are opting to grow Coconut trees despite the national push for domestic palm oil production Jeyalakshmi Palaniappan, 55, planted one-and-a-half acres of oil palm in a village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. But she found cultivating them financially unviable and, nine years later, she uprooted them. Now, she grows Coconut trees on another piece of land in the same village, and these are bringing her...
More »Worrying spike in Global Food Prices -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line Having recovered from their lows touched early or mid-2020, food prices are rising fast. At $574.8 a metric tonne in February 2021, the price of soyabean was 53 per cent higher than the corresponding month of 2020, when the effects of the Covid pandemic were yet to be felt (Chart 1). Over that period, the price of maize had risen from $168.71 to $245.24 a metric tonne...
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