Agriculture

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today has launched the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Unified Package Insurance Scheme in Mumbai. This new scheme would help farmers insure their crops in case of natural calamities and the insurance companies would pay more sum and lower premium. Uttarakhand became the first state ...

Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) have been identified as the most appropriate institutional form around which to mobilize farmers and build their capacity to collectively leverage their production and marketing strength. Collectivization of producers, especially small and marginal farmers, into producer organisations has emerged as one of the most effective pathways ...

National Bamboo Mission (NBM) is being implemented as a sub scheme under a 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme called Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH). The Mission envisages promoting holistic growth of bamboo and to increase the area under bamboo cultivation and marketing. Objective: To promote the growth of the ...

Free electricity to farmers is a subsidized free electricity scheme provided by the government of Andhra Pradesh, it is the dream concept of Late Chief Minister Dr. Y.S. Raja sekhara Reddy.  It provides 7 hours of power to the fields in a day. It has spent about 6000 crores in 2013. Aim The ...

The whole system is created to serve the few on the expense of millions. Since the Indian economic liberalization in 1991, the neglect of agriculture has become comparatively pronounce and farmers who constitute more than 50% of the population have attracted a marginal support and assistance. 1990s was a decade ...

The Central Government launched its flagship Kisan that will use space technology and drone-based imaging for estimating crop yield in better way. It also launched an Android App, designed by the country’s space agency ISRO, to assess real time data on hailstorm occurrences to figure out crop loss in affected ...

Punjab and Haryana, who have faced extensive damage to their crop by whitefly attack, may further compound as cotton prices are likely to remain “low” on the back of overall good crop yield and lower yarn prices. Industry experts have said raw cotton prices are also unlikely to remain higher ...

The world’s forests have shrunk by three per cent since 1990, an area equivalent to the size of South Africa and India is among the countries who are losing their forest cover faster than others, researchers have warned. The green cover is being more rapidly lost in some of the ...

The govt will soon come out with a model agricultural land leasing act for states to emulate, a move that may help states to liberalise leasing of land. The states which are part of the expert committee include Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Assam and Meghalaya. The expert committee ...

Actors Nana Patekar and Makrand Anaspure distributed cheques of financial aid to as many as 113 families of farmers from Latur and Osmanabad districts of Marathwada, who have committed suicides, owing to drought and indebtedness. The kin of the deceased were given cheque of Rs 15,000 each at a function ...