PMFBY : Government Starts Paying Crop Loss Claims, 30 Lakh Farmers to be benefitted
Insurance companies implementing the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) have begun paying crop damage claims in Maharashtra after continuous…
Committee On MSP To Be Set Up ‘Very Soon’, Says Union Agriculture Secretary
Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal said on Monday that a committee on the Minimum support price (MSP) and other farm issues,…
More support needed for pollination services in agriculture
Current estimates put the value of pollination services at around 200 to 400 billion US dollars per year. Smallholder farmers,…
Wasteland Development in India
What is Wasteland? Wasteland is the land that is not used either for agriculture, forestry or pasture or the land…
Government procures paddy worth nearly Rs 64,000 crore at MSP in 2021-22 mkt year so far
The government has procured 326 lakh tonnes of paddy so far in the 2021-22 kharif marketing year at the minimum…
Family Farming
What is Family Farming? Family farming is defined as a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production…
Within 6-7 months after procurement, States can disperse jowar and ragi through ration shops
As part of its attempts to enhance the supply of coarse grains through ration stores and other welfare schemes, the…
Coffee and the effects of climate change
Coffee is grown on more than 27 million acres across 12.5 million largely smallholder farms in more than 50 countries.…
Assam: NABARD estimates a credit potential of Rs 36,292 crore for the year 2022.
For the financial year 2022-23, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has predicted a credit potential of…
Climate change to stir up global agriculture within next decade
We see that new climate conditions push crop yields outside of their normal range in more and more regions. Human-made…