The low-intensive and high-potential agriculture sector should be the country's best bet to recover from the economic losses caused by the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns. In his recent nationally televised…
Farmers have completed sowing of kharif crops in nearly 55 per cent of the season’s normal area by the first week of July. Last year at this time, they had…
The district Agriculture Department has been organising mock drills and keeping farmers updated on the current location and chances of locust attack in various areas. The department is on alert…
The study found that beneficiaries were diverse and there was no “statistical evidence” of any bias in selection of farmers on the basis of caste, community or faith. A study…
The timely arrival of the monsoon had seen farmers accelerating their sowing activities. As of July 10, India has reported 580.21 lakh hectares (lh) of sowing as against the 402.57…
The pandemic has pushed Punjab’s paddy producing farmers to embrace ‘Direct Seeding of Rice’ (DSR) technique like never before. While bringing record 20 per cent of the total targeted rice area (27…
Incentivising states for better performance in the agriculture sector with a transparent implementation and monitoring system is important. The Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC-XV) has, in its interim report for the…
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