Agriculture / The Hindu
The meeting with Commerce Secretary comes a day before EU negotiators sit down with the Indian government to discuss EU-India Free Trade Agreement
Three years after the launch of a sericulture mission, the annual income of each silkworm rearer has touched 100,000
Terming Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidus claim that there is no shortage of urea as false, YSRCP leader Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy alleges that farmers raising their voice are being intimidated
The Prime Minister has said no pact will take place at the cost of farmers. Their interest will be protected, says Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Atchannaidu also instructs officials to divert stocks from the surplus areas to the regions facing shortage
The State government has been able to get higher allocation of urea from the Centre due to the initiative taken by the Chief Minister, he says
The role of pulses in ensuring food security, nutritional well-being, and sustainable agriculture with significant environmental benefits is very critical, says report
The stocks exceed the demand this season, the Chief Minister asserts, and orders officials to curb black marketing of urea and ensure its uninterrupted supply to the farmers
Delay in the Talcher fertiliser plant, whose foundation stone was laid in 2018, is also a concern, said Mr. Patnaik in a letter to J.P. Nadda, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Recalling the strenuous efforts in making it a reality and the periods of setbacks the project faced, particularly during the YSRCP term, the Chief Minister reiterates the plan to take up Polavaram-Banakacherla project to drive away drought in Rayalaseema
It marks the completion of the final stretch of the Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi project in Chittoor district; farmers now hope to galvanise agricultural activity as the waters will help fill 110 tanks and irrigate about 6,300 acres of ayacut
The permission toONGC for drilling onshore exploratory wells at 20 places inRamanathapuramdistrict was granted with the governments knowledge; this is against the interests of farmers, says the AIADMK general secretary
Farmers and entrepreneurs will showcase a range of products at Mannarangile Gramachantha at Bharat Bhavan every Friday
Applications can be submitted at Rythu Seva Kendras, says Dilli Rao, Director of Agriculture
The once reputed organisation was receiving adverse comments now, he said
Principal crop paddy sees sowing in 8.11 lakh hectares reaching 55% of seasonal target, maize, ragi, bajra performing well with sowing percentages of 88, 89, and 72 respectively; Chittoor district leads State with 167% of its seasonal normal area sown
When the group of women were at work in the farm near the foothills of the Western Ghats at around 9 a.m. on Thursday, a sloth bear, which had entered the farm, reportedly attacked them
His remarks come against the backdrop of the U.S. announcing a further increase in the tariff on Indian goods, including agricultural products, to 50%.
Putta Mahesh Kumar urges Union Minister Piyush Goyal to lift ceiling on sale of tobacco to clear additional stocks held by farmers and maintain crude palm oil price at 1.25 lakh per tonne