Tea Board of India has suspended the registration certificate of two large Tea estate factories and served necessary advisory notices to up to 98 other such factories throughout South India. According to M Balaji, the Tea Board Executive Director, ‘this arose as a result of the...
To help farm product exporters bear the burden of rising freight costs, the Centre has increased the rates of support under the transport and marketing assistance scheme and expanded its scope to include dairy products. According to an official release, ‘under the revised scheme...
Tractors & Farm Equipment Ltd (TAFE) has stated that its popular JFarm Services platform’s free tractor rental scheme has assisted thousands of small and marginal farmers in Tamil Nadu in continuing with their agricultural operations despite the impact of the second wave of the...
The “Gulabi” campaign According to KC Ravi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Syngenta India, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based agricultural science and technology company Syngenta, ‘To combat the pink bollworm pest in the crop, the Swiss firm’s Indian arm has...
According to Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) general secretary Badrinarayan Chaudhary, the current minimum support price (MSP) system is a sham that benefits farmers only in the two states of Punjab and Haryana. The RSS-affiliated (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) farmers union has announced a...
