-The Financial Express The USDA projection of 29% of agri GDP is faulty as it counts rural development expenditure also, it is only 13% In a report titled "India's Agricultural Exports Climbs To Record High" (click here to access), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) speaks of a steep ascent in Indian agro exports-from $5 billion in 2003 to $39 billion in 2013. This may be flattering, but the facts and figures...
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These Gujarat women fought orthodoxy, poverty to cultivate a fresh lease of life -Darshan Desai
-India Today Devgadh Baria, Gujarat: Savita Naik, Navliben, Chandaben and Kamtiben eke out a meagre living in Panchiyasaal village, just about 30 km from the block headquarters of Devgadh Baria in Gujarat's tribal-dominated Dahod district. They have 1 to 1.5 bighas of land and so have been categorised as marginal land holders. It was a huge fight for them to earn even this land - they fought right from the level of...
More »Western Uttar Pradesh farmers on the brink -Sayantan Bera
-Live Mint Together with unpaid sugarcane arrears from mills, an errant monsoon has made the situation acute for farmers On the night of 28 August, at 1.30am, 40-year-old sugarcane farmer Rambeer Rathi shot himself in the head with a country-made revolver. A few days earlier, Rathi, of Tikri village in Baghpat district of western Uttar Pradesh, had sold two of his Buffaloes to repay a bank loan of Rs.80,000 taken last year. But even...
More »Livestock Census: cattle population in Odisha declines
-The Hindu Bhubaneswar: Odisha has witnessed a 5.59 per cent decline in the total cattle population, according to the 19th Livestock Census19th Livestock Census. Odisha constitutes 6.09 per cent of the total cattle population in the country and it has declined by 5.59 per cent during the inter-Census period from 2007 to 2012, the report says. According to the report, the indigenous cattle population has decreased by 2.7 per cent in addition...
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-The Hindu Business Line The future of indigenous cattle lies in creating incentives to rear them India's indigenous cattle population has fallen by 8.9 per cent between 2007 and 2012 even as the numbers of exotic/crossbred cows and female Buffaloes have gone up by 28.8 and 8 per cent respectively, according to the Agriculture Ministry's latest Livestock Census. Disturbing though this may seem to some, the trend is a reflection of rational...
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