With India prohibiting tur imports from Myanmar, farmers in neighboring nations are rapidly substituting tur crop cultivation with other commodity crops such...
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The latest Cabinet decision to raise the MSP for the 2021-22 Kharif season crops raises question What is the purpose of MSP for crops? and confirms that the...
Karnataka Vegetables and flowers farmers cite a drop in demand and interruption in transportation networks. When the lockdown was imposed in the last week of...
The Union government intends to purchase 2 lakh tonnes of onions as excess inventory in 2021-22 to prevent price increases and maintain easy availability...
Agriculture credit is a catalyst for agricultural growth; it helps farmers to use optimum quantity of resources and facilitates the adoption of modern...
Approximately 54 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) representing 44,000 farmers across 6 countries in India and 15 leading agribusiness corporate entities...
In the recent Union budget, the target for agricultural credit was increased to ₹16.5 lakh crore from the previous target of ₹15 lakh crore. This is important...
Older diesel tractors can be converted to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) based tractors, resulting in significant savings for farmers with the official launch of...
More than 86% of farmers in the country are small and marginal. But many of these small farmers have joined hands to form Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)...
On Wednesday, the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with four private companies on the...