-NDTV Hyderabad: New state Telangana's first ever Budget session begins today with some bleak statistics on the table. Nearly 350 Farmers have committed suicide in the five months since the state came into being on June 2 this year. Finance Minister Etala Rajender will present the Budget in the Assembly today. The opposition will arrive in the House ready to attack the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti or TRS government on Farmers'...
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15,000 farm labourers fear loss of livelihood
-Deccan Chronicle Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government is facing fresh problems from agriculture labourers in the 17 villages where the government has decided to pool land for construction of the capital city. Every village has a minimum of 200 labourers and in 17 villages there are about 15,000 agriculture labourers. After the government pools the agriculture land in those villages, all of them will lose their livelihood. They are also not trained to...
More »Steady rise in fruits and veggies production
Despite high prices of fruits and vegetables, India's area under horticultural crops - mainly fruits, vegetables, spices and flowers - has doubled in around twenty years (between 1991-92 and 2012-13). This has resulted in increase in production of horticultural crops nearly threefold (2.8 times). A new report from the Ministry of Agriculture says that the area under horticultural crops during this period rose from 12.77 million hectares to 23.69 million...
More »Farm distress looms as global crop prices crash after 10-year bull run -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express For the last 10 years, Farmers in India benefited from both increased production and higher price realisations - leading to rising rural incomes and declining poverty rates. That happy story may now be near its end - which could be the precursor to a renewed crisis in agriculture. The main reason is declining global prices for most agri-commodities (see Table 1). Over the last five-six months, corn, wheat and...
More »80% of grants for finding solutions to improve agricultural yield spent in US, UK, Europe -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: Majority of the $3 billion spent by the world's leading philanthropic organization - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on finding solutions around improved agricultural yield to benefit the world's poorest and hungry people, has been spent in the US, Britain and other rich developed nations. Grain, a research group based in Barcelona said on Tuesday that over 80% of the grants were given to organizations in...
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