Indian Council of Agricultural Research through ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming System Research, Modipuram operates a research scheme of All India Network Programme on Organic Farming (AI-NPOF) with 20 cooperating centres covering 16 States to develop package of practices for...
National Agriculture Market popularly known as e-NAM was an innovative initiative in agricultural marketing to enhance farmer’s accessibility digitally to multiple numbers of markets & buyers and to bring transparency in trade transactions with the intent to improve price...
In the Union Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced that Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) will become eligible beneficiaries to utilize the 1 lakh crore financing facility under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) to enhance infrastructure at regulated markets,...
SWAMITVA scheme to extend to all States/UTs
Agricultural Credit Target enhanced to Rs 16.5 Lakh Crore in fy22
33% increase Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
Micro Irrigation fund doubled
Operation Green Scheme – ‘tops’ to include 22 more perishable products
1,000 more Mandis to be...
Vice President calls for measures to prevent agro brain drain and attract youth to farming
Agriculture is the pillar of India’s ecology, culture and civilisation- Vice President
It is our moral responsibility to ensure bright future for the farmers, says the...
Union Agriculture Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar interacted with stake-holders across the country via video conferencing on the occasion of completion of five years of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. He said that there is a need to...
5 years ago, on 13th January 2016, the Government of India took a historic step towards strengthening risk coverage of crops for farmers of India and approved the flagship crop insurance scheme - the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana...
Despite economic liberalisation at the beginning of the nineties, agriculture sector was left out. The Government, therefore, had realised that pro farmer’s reforms were essential to uplift the sector i.e. polices to see that the sector goes from strength...
Shri. Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways & Commerce and Shri. Som Prakash, Minister of State, Ministry of Commerce and Industries interacted with the representatives of Farmers Organizations of Punjab...
The consistent and concerted efforts of the Government to boost agricultural exports are bearing fruit as despite of the on-going Covid-19 crisis, the export of essential agri commodities for the cumulative period of April-September, 2020 has increased by 43.4%...
