“So, are there any single people here?” » says Karine Le Marchand, looking up at the bridge which overlooks the A4 motorway near Jossigny in Seine-et-Marne. “Karine minister! » replied a row of farmers, laughing. The host of the show “L’amour est dans le pré” on the M 6 channel came to meet the hundred … Read more
2023-12-16 14:28:30 Sowing of wheat in the ongoing rabi season has been completed in over 92 per cent of the normal acreage of 307.32 lakh hectares (lh) as of December 15, the feedback from States says. However, the focus is on the weather as even a slight rise in temperature during the grain filling stage … Read more
2023-12-15 11:41:15 The growth rate of GVA (gross value added) in agriculture and allied sectors increased from 2.10 per cent in 2018-19 to 3.96 per cent in 2022-23. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, Arjun Munda, Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, said the Government has adopted and implemented several policies, … Read more
2023-11-26 05:30:00 India, with its vast and diverse agricultural landscape, is at the cusp of a technological revolution, and Generative AI is emerging as a magic pill with the potential to transform the farming sector. Also read: Can precision agriculture unlock the potential of crops? Unlike other industries, agriculture in India has so far been … Read more
2023-10-31 04:24:20 Amrik Singh, a farmer as well as president of his village cooperative society in charge of selling fertilisers in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, is in dilemma about how to force-sell nano-DAP when he himself tried nano-Urea last year and got a lower wheat yield. Singh is not alone; many farmers in Haryana, Rajasthan, and … Read more
2023-10-22 19:02:15 The Haryana government is giving special incentives to farmers for adopting crop diversification, said an official statement here on Sunday. This will not only enhance their income but will also ensure the protection of the environment. The farmers’ future centres around crop diversity, it said. In this direction, the state government took the … Read more
2023-10-21 07:42:19 Kerala state government will seriously consider the demand of small-scale farmers to raise the ceiling on plantations used for activities other than growing listed crops from the present five per cent, Minister for Law, Industries and Coir P. Rajeeve said. He was responding to the concerns raised by small scale farmers in plantation … Read more
2023-10-16 11:24:10 India’s decision to maintain the current floor price for basmati rice exports will further hamper overseas sales of the premium variety and hit farm income, leaving growers saddled with large stocks of the new-season variety, farmers and millers said. India and Pakistan are the only growers of basmati rice. New Delhi exports more … Read more