-Mongabay.com - Perennial waterlogging in agricultural fields of Charkhi Dadri is making them uncultivable. Farmers are adopting alternate occupations or taking land on lease in other villages to continue farming. - While groundwater scarcity is a problem in many parts of North India, some 319 villages in Haryana have the opposite issue of waterlogging because of high groundwater levels. - Government interventions, saline water draining attempts and subsidies for crop diversification, along with...
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Rabi diversification pays dividends to farmers as mustard prices at all-time high in Punjab -Vishal Joshi
-Hindustan Times Data from Punjab agriculture department says an estimated 1.34 lakh acre was under mustard cultivation in 2021-22, highest in last 15 years. Since 2007, farmers are sowing mustard on 30,000 hectares or 74,000 acres every year Bathinda: After diversifying to mustard crop (about 44% jump) in the 2021-22 rabi season, enterprising farmers are now reaping profit by selling the produce for up to Rs.7,000 per quintal, 28% higher than this...
More »Demand for lower cotton prices is not justified -A Narayanamoorthy
-The Hindu Business Line The textile industry’s vociferous demands will hit cotton farmers, who are facing the brunt of rising costs The recent rise in the price of cotton yarn seems to have hit the textile manufacturers hard, so, a large section of participants involved in value chain products of cotton has called on the government to take measures to arrest the price rise. While demanding higher taxes on cotton exports, they have...
More »Government programmes to increase yield, better seeds will aid production of pulses -S Geetha
-Down to Earth The demand for pulses by 2030 will be 32.64 million tonnes There is no verified report that the country’s farmers are ceasing pulse cultivation. The production of pulses has increased through the years, from 8-15 million tonnes till 2006-07 to 16 million tonnes in 2015-16, 23.13 million tonnes in 2016-17, 25.23 million tonnes in 2017-18 and eventually, 25.58 million tonnes in 2020-21, due to the concerted efforts of research...
More »Punjab fails to frame policy for organic cotton cultivation -Vishal Joshi
-Hindustan Times Farm experts say cotton crop is considered the largest consumer of pesticides and insecticides and Punjab can reduce its chemical load with a dedicated policy on organic farming Punjab lacks a policy to promote organic cotton cultivation even as farmers associated voluntarily with it see viability of chemical-free production of the cash crop. Farm experts say cotton crop is considered the largest consumer of pesticides and insecticides and Punjab can reduce...
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