The activities of these start-ups will include inter-area support for farmer-producer organisations (FPOs), machineries for farmers on a rental basis at the farm level and technology including invitee base, Sitharaman said.
Urging farmers to turn to organic or natural farming, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said there is a need to take agriculture out of the chemical laboratory and connect it with the nature's lab.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the government in the past 7 years introduced several reforms to modernise the 'Indian Krishi sector with technology and reviving organic ways to protect mother nature'.
Under the 'KALIA' Scheme, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik disbursed Rs 742.58 crores to 37,12,914 small and marginal farming families for the Rabi crop.
Some tribal farmers in Tripura are scripting a new story by cultivating Apple Ber, a variety of horticultural fruit. It is being done for the first time in the entire northeastern region
Miyazaki mangoes are among the most expensive in the world and sold at ₹2.70 lakh per kilogram in the international market last year,
Niti Aayog Member (Agriculture) Ramesh Chand on Sunday said the second COVID-19 wave will not impact the Indian agriculture sector in anyway as rural areas saw spread of infections in May when agriculture activities remained at bare minimum.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested expansion of county's agriculture sector in the global market for processed food.
The youth of Himachal Pradesh's Shimla have started shifting towards their roots of farming. After leaving the jobs of corporate world, several youth in rural areas of Shimla are now shifting towards the apple farming. To get the good apple yield young farmers are now adopting the high density plantation of apple instead of the convention pattern of crops. After working in corporate world the young educated youth are now shifting to protect their traditional business of farming. They are adopting new and scientific methods of farming to increase the production and earning both. The government of Himachal Pradesh is also helping the farmers in ways of scientific and technical assistance.
In the latest video Salman Khan shared on his social media, he can be seen giving an insight into how he spent his weekend by enjoying farming and driving the tractor in the fields.
The country's farm trade, which was disrupted during the COVID-19 lockdown due to logistic issues in March-June, is expected to rebound in the second half of the calendar year 2020, said analytics firm Fitch Solutions in its latest report.
SumArth recently launched a project named “Magical Mushroom” whose main focus was giving a good livelihood, nutrition, and making the women farmers self-dependent with minimal investment.
Intensive farming techniques have led to a common antibiotic-resistant pathogen to become capable of infecting both cattle and humans, according to a study which suggests the need to check agriculture practices for such outbreaks.
Continuous lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir is having a big impact on apple farming in the Valley.
Experts say that farming octopuses would require the catching of vast amounts of fish and shellfish to feed them, putting further pressure on the planet's already threatened marine livestock.
There has been an evident trend in most of the Indian villages. People are getting educated and leaving villages in search of better work opportunities in cities. So, what is the fate of agriculture in
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