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Promising all his help, Paswan has urged start-ups to come up with innovative ideas to support the food-processing industry

National Farmers' Day 2024: Date, history and significance

National Farmers’ Day is a time for the nation to pause and recognise the immense sacrifices and contributions of its farmers.

The MSP Conundrum: Striking a balance between farmer welfare and economic realities

Despite widespread support for fixing floor prices for all major crops, the current MSP system's effectiveness is limited. MSP for many crops are indicative in nature due to a lack of an effective procurement mechanism. A nuanced strategy, informed by global experiences and focused on efficiency and innovation, is essential for sustainable agricultural growth in India

Can Russia be India's new best agri friend?

With climate disruptions wreaking havoc on agricultural seasons and output, the Indian and Russian governments can consider an agri treaty to last until 2030 covering foodgrains and fertilisers. Russia can sell India its surpluses in wheat in good years and for bad years, wheat exports to India can be exempted through a prior consensus

Kerala farmer drives Audi A4 to sell spinach at roadside market. Viral video

A Kerala-based farmer has gone viral online for driving his Audi A4 to the market to sell his produce.

Mansukh Mandaviya urges farmers to cut use of chemicals fertilisers by 20% in rabi season; warns against urea diversion

The central government is also planning to organise 'Kisan Samridhi Mahotsav' in mid-October to highlight initiatives taken in the last 9 years by the Modi government to boost farmers' income. 'Krishi Ratha Yatras' will also be organised.

Maharashtra’s legalising leasing of agricultural land a milestone in agricultural reform

Providing a legal framework which protects the rights of both landowners and tenant farmers in an equitable manner can address the two biggest challenges facing Indian agriculture today – the fragmented nature of land holdings and unviable average farm sizes, as well as bringing in tenant farmers into the ambit of the various Central and State schemes aimed at farmers

More than MSP, vibrant markets ecosystem can drive efficiency in farm resource allocation

The role of the derivative markets seemed to have been taken over by the MSP mechanism in the last few years without recourse to those farmers who are caught between the reality of the mandis and the aspirations of the policy as it remains a guiding signal, not the procurement assurance

Recognising the farmer as creditor 

A petition by a farmer’s body to treat unpaid sugarcane farmers as financial creditors raises intriguing possibilities   

Record high wheat and rice production expected, boosting domestic availability

India’s wheat production was expected to see a fall this season as unseasonal rains and hailstorms in March led to widespread crop losses across parts of the country.

Modi @ 9 | PM’s farmer scheme a hit but government still far from goal of doubling agricultural income

A parliamentary panel on agriculture in a report tabled in Parliament on March 23 this year noted that the government is far from its 2022 goal of doubling the income of farmers.

Farm Uneasy | Evolution of farming in Punjab and Haryana 

Farm mechanisation by substituting the use of cattle to till farmland with tractors and the use of other machinery to reduce physical labour and increase productivity has worked in the favour of the country as well as farmers

Hard decisions and reforms are needed to improve farm productivity

Low farm productivity makes farmers vulnerable to market fluctuations. Besides, they fail to produce enough to meet steadily growing market demand and end up with lower incomes

Farm Uneasy | Two-fold rise in production costs jar farmer profits

A two-fold rise in production costs in the past few years is eating into farmers' profits, bringing down their gains to a significantly low amount. This has been specially devastating for small farmers, which amount to 85 percent of farming community of the country.

Analysis | How farmers, policymakers can brace for uncertain weather patterns

India is among the worst affected globally by climate change, with its agriculture sector hit hard by rising temperatures, freak rainfall, and changing seasons.

Agri-derivatives: Should India learn from Indonesia?

While India continues to ban key agricultural futures contracts, labelling them as a villain in food inflation, Indonesia has been planning to encourage the domestic futures market to channelise local supplies and exports of Crude Palm Oil (CPO)

El Nino may complicate India’s inflation management

El Nino is not going to affect only kharif crops but also the next rabi season crops as their health depends on the soil moisture and water availability in the reservoirs. A deficient monsoon results in sub-optimal filling of water reservoirs and inadequate soil moisture impacting yields of rabi crops

How farmers can grab a bigger slice of the agriculture value chain 

A Farmer Producer Company (FPC) in Nashik district, formed by grape-growers of the region, is in the process of building India’s first licensed private agriculture mandi 

‘I always failed in school’: Meet the farmer who became a Microsoft engineer

From studying under lanterns in a remote village to working at Microsoft, Santosh Mishra has come a long way – and he’s raring to do more.

Computer science graduate turns farmer in UP for cash-rich dragon fruit

Atul Mishra has done BTech in computer science, but prefers to earn a living through farming dragon fruit.

KCR govt 'anti-farmer', has not fulfilled its promises to people: Amit Shah

At a public meeting, where former Congress legislator from Munugode K Rajagopal Reddy joined the BJP, Shah said it marks the countdown of the fall of the KCR government. Reddy, who had resigned from the Congress, will fight the bypoll on a BJP ticket.

Former chief election commissioner Sunil Arora joins agri-tech startup as chairman

Arora has also served as secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

Pune farmer hires helicopter to bring home new-born granddaughter

Elated with the birth of a granddaughter, a farmer in the Pune district of Maharashtra hired nothing less than a helicopter to bring her home on Tuesday.

Union Budget 2022 | Farm sector hails generous MSP, fertiliser sops, vows of doubling income

While the Budget 2022 lined up steps that will increase the farmers’ income 'substantially', there was no clarity about the desired income level which would have proved that the incomes did actually double

Farmer says buffalo refuses to be milked, takes it to cops

A video showing the farmer seeking help from the police over the issue surfaced on social media.