-Press Information Bureau (Ministry of Agriculture) The Government formulated a Model Act on Agri-Marketing reform in 2003 and Model Rules in 2007. The Government has since been pursuing the State Governments to adopt the Model Act and Rules. The Model Act inter-alia provides for alternative models through which farmers can access larger markets viz. setting up of markets in private and cooperative, contract farming, farmer consumer market and direct marketing. License...

-The Indian Express Renowned agricultural scientist and vice-chancellor of punjab Agricultural University, Baldev Singh Dhillon wants farmers in other parts of the country Renowned agricultural scientist and vice-chancellor of punjab Agricultural University, Baldev Singh Dhillon wants farmers in other parts of the country to learn from punjab and Haryana experience and judiciously use groundwater and fertiliser, to avoid problems faced by these two states today. Dhillon spoke to Sandip Das on the...

-The Hindu Proposing a new "empowerment line" that aims to measure the minimum economic cost for a household to fulfil eight most basic needs, a global research organisation has estimated that 680 million Indians, or 56 per cent of the population, lacks the means to meet their essential needs. Health care, drinking water and sanitation between them account for nearly 40 per cent of the gap between their current status and the...

-The Hindustan Times Chandigarh: Agriculture in punjab would witness an adverse effect due to the climate change in future. Predicting a steep rise in the average temperature during the coming decades, an agriculture expert said it would adversely affect the wheat and paddy crops. Prof PK Aggarwal from International Water Management Institute said the average rise in temperature during the past 100 years was 0.75 degree Celsius, which would be 1.5 to...

-The Pioneer Raipur: A farmer from Chhattisgarh showed 69 varieties of turmeric he has grown in his field to the agriculture experts and officials of punjab in a fair organised near Mohali, said in an official statement issued here on Monday. Large number of farmers, agriculturists, and officials visited the fare on the second day of the Pragatisil punjab Krishi Sammelan. In the fare, Chamar Singh, a progressive farmer from Basna area of...