-Outlook Mumbai: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hinted at more sops for the troubled Farmers, saying the unseasonal rains in March have resulted in an "agrarian crisis". Jaitley asserted that the government is committed to allocate more resources to the farm sector, which he identified as the biggest challenge for high growth. "Agriculture is the biggest challenge and the unseasonal rains have resulted in an agrarian crisis," Jaitley said here this evening at...

-Hindustan Times Ludhiana: Like every year, the Farmers in the district have started burning stubble despite ban on such a practice. The agricultural experts and officials have been appealing to the Farmers to avoid this practice but the Farmers seem to be least concerned about it. Stubble burning can be noticed round the clock at every rural pocket of the district. According to the experts, it not only depletes the soil health but...

-PTI Mumbai: Maharashtra's sugarcane Farmers will be asked to strictly use drip irrigation by this year end in order to tide over severe drought that has hit many parts of the state, Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan said. "Drip irrigation has immense benefits. It becomes even more essential when the state is facing severe water scarcity. Today, the western Maharashtra and Marathwada region are facing severe drought conditions where water has to...

-India Today Ahmedabad: IIT-Madras graduate Kannan Lakshminarayan dusted a few copies of "Young India" to find Mahatma Gandhi's vision and initiate cotton Farmers to use miniature spinning machines right in their village where they grow the crop and increase their income. Following this, the middleman was out, the long-drawn value chain was short-circuited while Farmers became spinners first and subsequently, weavers and even garment makers. In 1920, Mahatma Gandhi had written in...

-The Times of India RAIPUR: Adopting grafting method and other technology, a Bastar-based Farmer has overcome the tribal region's airborne disease bacterial wilt, which hampered the cultivation of brinjal vegetable in this region of Chhattisgarh. Progressive Farmer Ramesh Chawda now gets an yield of 1,25,000kg of brinjal from each acre of his 2.5 acres land. To make brinjal cultivation a success in this terrain, he adopted the horticulture technique of grafting the...