-TheHansIndia.com Sangareddy: System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a new way of cultivating rice has gained prominence among the Farmers of Mulugu and neighbouring villages in Medak district. The new form of cultivation is not just cost-effective, but also yields more than traditional form of rice cultivation. With the new method, it takes only 2 kg of seeds to sow an acre whereas in traditional method it takes 30 kg In SRI method,...
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Failed crops, parched fields, now Marathwada faces the great thirst -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express Wells dry up across 8 districts, storage down to less than 8%, residents trudge long distances, officials brace for worst drinking water crisis in 40 years. Beed/ Parbhani (Maharashtra): Seventy-year-old Parobai Shinde, carrying an aluminium pot that has seen better days, is briskly walking the 2-km stretch from her home in Manyarwadi village in Georai taluka in Beed district to Bharat Sonmali’s field. Sonmali is reploughing his 30...
More »1 lakh Farmers quit agriculture in 5 years in Maharashtra -Nikhil Deshmukh
-The Times of India KOLHAPUR: As many as one lakh families of Farmers in the state opted out of agriculture, their sole profession, in the last five years, according to the latest agriculture Census figures. Experts expressed fears that the trend might continue with the availability of other income sources and tolerance level of the Farmers reaching its peak. The final figures of agricultural land holdings for 2015-16 will be released later. According...
More »AgroStar: Agri inputs directly to Farmers -Mayank Mishra
-Business Standard Mobile commerce venture AgroStar supplies seeds and fertiliser to Farmers. As the company expands, delivery will be a challenge Navinbhai Karsanbhai Patel, a farmer from Navanagar in Gujarat, used to have a hard time securing quality inputs for his four-acre farm. That was before he got to know about AgroStar's offerings. His association with the company, now 18 months old, has resulted in 300 missed calls to the helpline number...
More »Maharashtra, Punjab top producers of green energy from farm waste -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times Three years ago, when representatives from Sukhbir Agro approached Farmers in Punjab proposing they sell their farm waste to the company to generate bio-energy, no one believed them. “They proposed to buy our waste… We didn’t believe them,” said Amolak Singh, a farmer. However, as the Farmers slowly came around to the idea the green benefits of this move became apparent. Every November, Farmers in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana and...
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