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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

From The Editorial Desk

Innovative infra & farmer partnership models emerge in the 8,000+ crore strong AIF

Agriculture Infrastructure Fund is bringing together the collective power of all stakeholders in the Agriculture ecosystem Agriculture Infrastructure Fund applications cross the Rs. 8,000 crore mark, Sanctions cross Rs. 4000 crore mark With Rs. 8,000+ crore worth of applications, AIF is...

India’s Agriculture trade grows during 2020-21

Despite the pandemic export of Agri and allied commodities during Apr, 2020 - Feb, 2021 shows an increase of 18.49% India has witnessed tremendous growth of 727% for Wheat export and 132% for (Non-Basmati) Rice export during 2020-21 India has consistently...

Union Ministry of Agriculture signs MoU with Microsoft for a pilot project in 100 villages of 6 states

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's idea of digital agriculture is taking shape: Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Transparency at the central government level is benefiting the farmers and labourers Union Ministry of Agriculture and Microsoft India yesterday inked a Memorandum of Understanding...

Trend of enterprising youth returning to villages to take up agriculture must be encouraged: Vice President

Top priority and coordinated action between Centre and States needed to make agriculture profitable and sustainable: Shri Naidu VP calls upon policy makers and press to adopt a positive bias towards agriculture Identify problems that are holding back farmers from reaching...

Increasing Farmer Income through FPOs

The Government has been promoting the scheme of “National Agricultural Market” popularly known as e-NAM, whereby regulated physical wholesale mandis of different States/ Union Territories (UTs) are integrated on a virtual platform to facilitate online trading of agricultural commodities...

Training to Women in Agriculture

Government of India has already established an institute, ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, at Bhuvneshwar, Odisha under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi to address the problems and issues of the women in agriculture. The institute undertakes...

Contribution of Women Farmers is pivotal in making Indian Agriculture Aatmanirbhar!: Shri Parshottam Rupala

Civilized society cannot be imagined without women: Shri Kailash Choudhary The Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi virtually celebrated the “International Women’s Day - 2021” today. Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare accentuated that the...

FPOs will make farming more viable: Shri Rupala

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare celebrates the first anniversary of the Central Sector Scheme on "Formation & Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)" Union Minister of State Shri Parshottam Rupala and Shri Kailash Choudhary inaugurate professional training programmes...

National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGPA): Towards the Mission of Digital Agriculture

A Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGPA) was initially launched in 2010-11 in 7 pilot States, which aims to achieve rapid development in India through use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for timely access...

Agri Logistics Systems in the Country

National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, had constituted a Working Group on Crop Husbandry, Agricultural Inputs, Demand and Supply projections, which submitted its reports titled “Demand & Supply Projections Towards 2033 (Crops, Livestock, Fisheries and...

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GeM Partnership with Sikkim: Boosting Digital Procurement Across India

The Indian government’s public procurement portal, Government e-Marketplace (GeM), has recently signed a landmark agreement with the Sikkim government....