-The Assam Sentinel The Assam Government often claims that it has achieved a lot in the field of agricultural development in the State. Though the State has seen some improvement in crop production, the irrigation sector, a main constituent in agricultural growth, is yet to be improved in the State.   Sources said that mere focus on crop production without overhauling irrigation facilities will not propel the State’s agricultural growth. The projected outlay...

Forty-eight thousand farmers, members of twelve hundred co-operative credit societies in Kolhapur district, are up in arms against the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) which has asked the Kolhapur district central co-operative bank (KDCC) to recover loans that have already been waived under the union government’s loan waiver scheme four years ago. In a rally held on Saturday, the farmers decided to resort to a massive agitation against...

Veteran agricultural scientist and alumnus of Harvard and Berkeley Universities, Dr Peter Kenmore was in Mumbai for NABARD’s 30th anniversary lecture on ‘Future of Global Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for India.’ This United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization India representative spoke to Yogesh Pawar on the current scenario in agriculture. Some excerpts: There’s a lot of churn over GM technology in India. At a time when the country is grappling with...

-The Times of India The number of suicide by farmers has gone down in the country, the government stated in the Lok Sabha. Minister of state for finance Namo Narain Meena informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that due to several measures taken by the government the cases had fallen. "As far as farmer suicides are concerned, there has been a fall in the numbers in Andhra Pradesh, also in Karnataka and...

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) set up to finance agriculture and rural development, has been giving evasive replies to specific questions raised by the Union finance ministry and by Parliament on the nature of recommendations made by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to restructure the bank. Some MPs believe that the restructuring violates the role mandated for NABARD by Parliament. DNA earlier reported that the restructuring/repositioning of NABARD...