-Down to Earth Only 23.7% and 24.7% paddy produced was sold under MSP in Kharif and Rabi season respectively of 2018-19 Only about 24 per cent paddy and 20 per cent wheat is sold under minimum support PRIce (MSP) in India, according to the findings of the 77th round of the National Sample Survey report. The data from the report, titled Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Holdings of Households...
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Agriculture Ministry ties up with Jio, ITC, NCDEX to develop agritech
-The Hindu The Agriculture Ministry signed agreements on Tuesday with Reliance’s Jio Platforms, ITC, Cisco, NCDEX e-Markets and Ninjacart to develop agritech solutions using its National Farmers Database which includes information of 5.5 crore farmers. Microsoft, Amazon and Patanjali are among the companies that signed agreements for similar pilot projects earlier this year. This is part of an effort to modernise the agriculture sector by infusing new technologies so that farmers can...
More »Most farmers sold to PRIvate traders in 2019, new survey data shows -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen and Jasmin Nihalani
-The Hindu Data also show that a majority of the farmers were unaware of the Minimum Support PRIce regime Between 2013 and 2019, the share of agricultural households (HHs) that sold their produce in APMC mandis reduced sharply, while those that sold their produce to PRIvate traders increased significantly. Data show that a majority of the farmers were unaware of the Minimum Support PRIce (MSP) programme and procurement agencies. Among those who...
More »Adani in the Eye of the Storm as Himachal Apple PRIces Crash -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in Apple growers feel that instead of incentivising big corporates, the state government should instead help farmers build cold storages. Chandigarh: The main argument of those rallying behind the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s controversial farm laws; that the free market economy will reward farmers, faces a major dent in the wake of the crashing market PRIce of the apple crop in Himachal Pradesh. The Rs 5,000 crore apple business in the hilly state,...
More »NSO survey: Most farmers selling in local markets, government agencies procure the least -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Farmers in general satisfied with return from local sale, but a significant percentage of them get lower than market PRIce The majority of Indian farmers sell their produce in local markets, the 77th round of the National Sample Survey by the National Statistical Office titled Land and livestock holdings of households and situation assessment of agricultural households has found. Government agencies and Agricultural Produce Market Committees account for an...
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