-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Crop planting this kharif season has so far covered 4.16% more area than a year ago while water levels in the country's 91 major reservoirs are on an average 17.09% higher, show official data. From the beginning of the kharif season in June till September 2, crop planting has covered 1,054.49 lakh hectares, close to the kharif season target of 1,062.50 lakh hectares, according to data...
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year
-The Hindu Business Line Acreage under rice, pulses, coarse cereals, oilseeds higher NEW DELHI: The area sown under the seven kharif crops in the on-going sowing season till date at 1054.49 lakh hectare is about 4.2 per cent more than the sowing in the same period last year due to better monsoon rains this year. The total acreage till September 9 2016, as per figures released by the Agriculture Ministry on Friday, is...
More »Kerala Government to take up upland paddy farming in a big way
-The New Indian Express KOCHI: Keeping its promise to promote organic farming and paddy cultivation in the State, the Agriculture Department has initiated steps to carry out upland paddy cultivation in 2,560 hectares in the 2016-17 fiscal year. According to officials, more than one lakh hectares of cultivable land is lying barren in the State. “Currently, we are importing vegetables and rice from the other states to meet our demand, at a...
More »From Plate to Plough: Seize the crisis -Ashok Gulati & Shweta Saini
-The Indian Express Government has the opportunity to rein in food inflation on a sustainable basis. In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi counted his government’s achievements. Bringing down inflation from double digits to below six per cent was emphatically mentioned as one that brought relief to the aam aadmi. Without doubt, we witnessed moderation in the overall consumer price index (CPI) and wholesale price index (WPI) levels in the past...
More »Geographical indication: Battle over Basmati -Milind Ghatwai, Harish Damodaran & Divya Goyal
-The Indian Express The GI tag is used to identify various kinds of goods including Darjeeling tea, Kanchipuram silk saree and Kolhapuri chappal. When Krishnakumar Tomar, one of the first to grow basmati in this fertile belt, harvested his crop 14 years back, he had no idea where to sell it. With no local takers for the aromatic paddy, the 40-year-old from Badi, which falls in Raisen district, was told he could...
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