-Financial Express Higher sowing augurs well for bountiful wheat and oilseed production The resilience of India’s agricultural sector has been a positive factor in the India growth story. During the ongoing rabi season, the average area sown for wheat is up by 25%, to 25.5 million hectares as of December 9, from a year earlier. Area under oilseeds, too, is at record levels. All of this augurs well for bumper rabi crops...

-The Telegraph State govt to also provide an advance relief of Rs 3,500 to over 30 lakh affected farmer families that will cost the state exchequer about Rs 1,200 crore Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Saturday declared about two-thirds area of the state as drought-hit, announced payment of interim relief to the affected farmer families and also decided to seek financial assistance from the Centre for tackling the situation. “In the review meeting...

-Down to Earth A report shows drought-like situation in over 700 blocks of 91 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar & West Bengal A severe deficit in the rainfall during monsoon 2022 has affected Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar. However, state governments have shied away from declaring a drought in the states even though Kharif-sowing was badly hit. Uttar Pradesh government directed a drought survey in all its districts September 8,...

-Business Standard While the production of foodgrains and the financial position of the government are important points, electoral compulsion may become the deciding factor for the survival of this scheme A sharp drawdown in India’s wheat inventory exacerbated by a fear of a fall in rice production due to drought-like conditions in the main growing states has raised questions on the government’s ability to sustain the free foodgrains distribution scheme beyond its...

-Down to Earth Following central guidelines on declaring drought, good rainfall on Aug 4-5 predicted, say govt officials Bihar, like most states in north, east and central India, has suffered due to a whimsical monsoon 2022. Rainfall has been scanty as well as erratic. Farmers have already shown signs of despair, as Down To Earth reported earlier. So is this agrarian state in the grips of a drought? Scanty or erratic rains in...