-The Indian Express The four-month monsoon season ended last week leaving a deficit of 12 per cent. The authorities have called it a below-normal monsoon and the worst in the past five years, but skim the data and the picture seems even more sobering. Nearly one-third of the 36 met divisions in the country have received deficient rainfall, with Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh - which are major agriculture regions -...
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Centre asks state to build storage capacity before launching food security scheme -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The central government is not in a hurry to push states to implement Food Security Act (FSA) without first building adequate capacity. The food ministry has even sought details of the preparedness in states where the act is in force. Sources said that only two more states - Assam and Uttarakhand - have informed the ministry about their readiness to launch the scheme. So far 11...
More »Punjab to procure, distribute grains under food law -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-The Business Standard In a move that could lessen the Centre's foodgrain procurement burden, it has allowed the Punjab government to purchase and distribute grains in advance to beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) for the next few months. As a result, 800,000-900,000 tonnes, mostly wheat, will not come to the Centre's pool for a while. Punjab is one of the main wheat and rice producers in the country. It had...
More »Land conundrum and the hunger games -Prasanna Mohanty & Kaushik Dutta
-The Financial Express A mechanism is needed to compensate farmers for not exercising their right to sell productive land but continue to grow Foodgrains. India finds itself in a piquant situation. While its population, and with it the number of poor, is growing, its cultivable land is not only shrinking, more worryingly, the economic returns of the agricultural use are diminishing vis-a-vis non-agricultural use. The situation may not be alarming right now,...
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...
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