On Monday, Union minister for Agriculture Shri N. S. Tomar said the center is focusing on farm mechanisation and urged the companies to supply small farm machinery and equipment to the farmers with less ownership of land to enhance their farm income. The Minister was speaking at the...
The Shetkari Sanghatan (SS), the farmers’ organisation founded by the late Sharad Joshi, said the Centre should not revoke the laws on agri-reform, but should make adjustments in line with the farmers’ demands. SS President Anil Ghanwat said that before adopting them, the...
Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Farming, said on Saturday that the numerous improvement programmes in Telangana have led to an increase in the population of livestock, thereby helping the raise dairy farmers’ incomes in the state. In all...
Traders at the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis throughout Karnataka will hold one-day bandh on Monday to oppose the State Government’s latest decision to raise the market consumer cess from 0.35% to 1% of the transaction value. Confronted with a shortage in funding to...
According to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, higher than average planting of cereals, pulses and oilseeds increased the region under rabi season up to 565 lakh hectares (lha) until Friday, almost 4.7% higher than around 539 lha sown in the corresponding week previous year...
