-PTI BHUBANESWAR: The country's eastern region has the tremendous potential to emerge as the country's 'rice bowl', a recent study industry body Assocham said. The study titled 'Towards Second Green Revolution in Eastern India: A Road Map' also said the eastern region would be able to achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about ten per cent in Paddy production, if the country manages to bridge the gap between potential yield...
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Farmers' suicides reflect the crisis in India's grain bowl -Gautam Dheer
-Deccan Herald Behind all the ostentation, glitz and glamour of the recently concluded mega ‘Progressive Agriculture Summit' in Punjab lies the harsh reality of farmer suicides and the burgeoning agrarian crisis that this border state reels under. A state government commissioned study conducted by three prominent universities in Punjab lay bare the magnitude of the crisis. On an average estimate, three persons committed suicide every two days in last one decade in...
More »Growing Yardlong Wonders -Aswathi Krishna
-The New Indian Express THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was not profit but interest in farming that drove Ummer Vadakkedath and Moosakoya Kariyeri of Pettikadavu in Peruvayal grama panchayat, Kozhikode to yardlong beans cultivation. In a 30 cent plot, they jointly grow yardlong beans, which they sell at the Palayam vegetable market. "We had been farming other vegetables in the plot for the past several years. But recently we shifted our focus to yardlong beans,"...
More »Kerala lost over 6 lakh hectares of Paddy fields in 30 years -P Sudhakaran
-The Times of India KANNUR: Kerala has lost huge expanses of Paddy fields in the past few decades and we have just around 2.75 lakh hectares of Paddy field left in the state compared to over nine lakh hectares thirty years back thus resulting in major reduction in Paddy production, according to experts. "Though we require over 40 lakh tonnes of rice per year today, our production is just six lakh tonnes...
More »The next farm challenge
-The Hindu Business Line One sector in which the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) can claim some success during its 10 years in power is agriculture. Between 2003-04 and 2013-14, India's foodgrain output rose from 213.19 million tonnes (mt) to 263.20 mt. Production of pulses and oilseeds has also gone up from under 15 and 25 mt to nearly 20 and 33 mt respectively, after registering near stagnation in the previous decade....
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