-The Economic Times KOLKATA: West Bengal's agriculture department has decided to encourage Farmers to cultivate extinct varieties of rice is drawing up plans to create a market for them. The department is also helping Farmers to adopt organic farming methods. Agriculture department officials said that these indigenous varieties of rice, which are also known as folk rice, have properties which make them suitable for cultivating in particular regions and are also highly...
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Centre to come out with draft model law on contract farming -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Seeking to protect Farmers from price volatility by ensuring guaranteed price for their produce, the Centre will come out with a draft model law on contract farming this month. Once it is made public, stakeholders including Farmers will be given 30 days to comment and give suggestions. A final 'model' contract farming Act is expected to be released in November after incorporating the suggestions. "The final model...
More »After Sikkim, organic farming to get a push in other Hill States
-The Hindu Business Line As a part of the government’s push, States adjoining the Himalayan range will be encouraged to go completely organic Ahmedabad: Parshottam Rupala, the Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, informed that the government is increasingly focusing on organic farming to boost production of nutritionally rich agri produce. As a part of the government’s push, States adjoining the Himalayan range will be encouraged to go all organic,...
More »Over 4.5 million Maharashtra Farmers enrol for farm loan waiver -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil
-Livemint.com 3.9 million of these 4.5 million Maharashtra Farmers applied for farm loan waivers online Mumbai: Even as opposition parties in Maharashtra continue to criticize the online procedure to identify the beneficiaries of farm loan waiver, Farmers themselves have responded in large numbers to the initiative. By 30 August, more than 4.5 million Farmers in the state had enrolled for the scheme and nearly 3.9 million of them had submitted their online...
More »Farmers across India are sowing more cotton, less oilseeds and pulses -Mridula Chari
-Scroll.in Cotton acreage has increased by 18%. As September comes around with the promise of the first harvests in a few weeks, data released by the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday indicate that the overall kharif season sowing acreage as of the end of August is 0.5% less than the previous year. This year, Farmers across India have moved decisively away from what were once profit-making crops such as oilseeds as well...
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