As many as 215 of 660 districts tracked by the meteorological department for rainfall data clocked a deficit of 20% or more till September 30. Fourteen states had a deficit of 10% or more. Source: Top food producing states hit…
Farmers can't keep them, traders don't want to buy them, and gaushalas are full. The result: Havoc on farms and roads. Sunday Times travels across the country to find out how the population of stray bovines is becoming a ticking…
Source: The Assam Tribune Online
Maharashtra govt has formed a committee to revive defunct cooperative sugar mills, possibly by acquiring them and leasing them out to those who can turn them around Source: Maharashtra govt looks to revive at least 40 shuttered cooperative sugar mills…
Business Standard New Delhi, 14 September 2017 Change in agro-credit approach needed : Mundra S S Mundra, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said public sector banks (PSBs) need to take a focused approach towards long-term agricultural…
New Delhi, 12 September 2017 ICFA joins hands with German Agribusiness Alliance for accelerating agriculture growth Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with German Agribusiness Alliance (GAA) with the aim to promote trade, technology…
Corporate interests are trying to grab enormous tracts of land with the support of the state, but their attempts are being met with an unprecedented unity among landowners and others dependent on the land for their livelihood. By VIJOO KRISHNAN…
New Delhi, 18 July 2017 ICFA District Agriculture Council to be launched in Lakhimpur Globalization has revealed challenges that need to be ardently addressed for Indian agriculture to compete with international markets. In accordance with Prime Minister Modi’s vision for…