-Deccan Herald India’s food grain output for 2014-15 fell by nearly five per cent owing to poor monsoon and untimely rainfall last year. The Fourth Advance Estimates of production of major crop pegged the farm output at 252.68 million tonnes – about 4.66 per cent lower than that of 2013-14. The farm sector is set for yet another year of low production as the weather office on Monday forecast 12 per cent...
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A budget for women -Yamini Mishra & Rebecca Reichmann Tavares
-The Hindu The government's first full year budget is an excellent chance to recognise missed opportunities and take corrective action with regard to investing in addressing gender inequality The coming Union budget is significant for at least two reasons: first, this will be the new government's maiden full year budget. Second, with the NITI Aayog replacing the Planning Commission, the government is likely to abolish the distinction between plan and non-plan budgets. This...
More »Agri ministry’s yield estimates of same crop show big difference -Sayantan Bera
-Live Mint It's been two years since the issue was flagged. However, there seem to be no clear answers New Delhi: On 14 August when the Union ministry of agriculture released the fourth advance estimate of crop production for 2013-14, it gave the country reason to cheer: in 2013-14 India had achieved a record food grain production of 264 million tonnes, beating the previous year's (2012-13) 257 million tonnes. These production figures,...
More »Finance to 5 Lakh Joint Farming Groups of "Bhoomi Heen Kisan" through Nabard in the Current Financial Year
-Capital Market 14 Crore Soil Health Cards to be Issued in Three Years; Credit Support of Rs. 8 Lakh Crore to Agriculture During 2014-15 Targeted "Finance to 5 lakh joint farming groups of Bhoomi Heen Kisan through NABARD in the current financial year", said Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Agriculture Minister, while inaugurating the National Rabi Conference. Minister said that, a very large number of landless farmers are unable to provide land title...
More »Trends in Agricultural Production-Bipin K Deokar, Shruti J Pandey, and Nishigandha R Lokhande
-Economic and Political Weekly The Fourth Advance Estimates of agricultural production in 2012-13 see only a small change in output forecasts, but the outlook for 2013-14 is for a substantially higher level of foodgrain production. In the recent past, the area and production of non-foodgrains has risen faster than of foodgrains. Please click here to read the entire article ...
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