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Experts attending an agricultural fair at Chirawa in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district laid emphasis on adopting an integrated approach to agriculture for enhancing the farmers’ income. A call was also made for promoting horticulture to support the rural economy, which would reduce the dependence of farmers on the market. The day-long fair, organised earlier this week,...

GUWAHATI Assam’s small tea growers have asked the Tea Board of India to assign officers and experts who can communicate with the stakeholders in the language they understand to increase efficiency and quality output. In a memorandum to the Tea Board’s Chairperson on Sunday (March 2, 2025), the North East Confederation of Small Tea Growers’...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (March 1, 2025) called for expeditious implementation of the budgetary proposals for agriculture and rural development, urging stakeholders to focus on “action” instead of deliberating on a new budget. Addressing a post-budget webinar on ‘Agriculture and rural prosperity’, the Prime Minister emphasised that the budget reflects the government’s new...

The Punjab Government informed the Supreme Court of India on Friday (February 28, 2025) that representatives of the Union Government and farmers’ leaders have met twice to discuss issues, including the guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, and would meet again on March 19, 2025. Appearing before a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and...

Namdhari Seeds, a Karnataka-based vegetable and flower seeds breeding company, has acquired 100% stake in the open field vegetable seed business of Axia, a Dutch vegetable seeds breeding company. Axia produces tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, melons, watermelons, cucumbers, squash, and eggplant in its open fields and these seeds are marketed under the US Agriseeds brand across...

Sagar Mehta. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement GUWAHATI An association of tea producers has named two nonagenarians for its first lifetime achievement awards. The awards are scheduled to be conferred upon 96-year-old Sagar Mehta and 93-year-old Apurba Kumar Barooah at the ‘Chairman’s Dinner’ in eastern Assam’s Golaghat on February 8, 2025. The dinner is a...

Dakshina Kannada Member of Parliament Captain Brijesh Chowta urged Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal to establish a satellite office of the Coffee Board in Mangaluru to strengthen coffee cultivation in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka. Meeting Mr. Goyal in New Delhi on February 6, Capt. Chowta highlighted the need to promote coffee...

A Budget is the response of a government to the challenges in the economy. The effort in the Economic Survey 2024-25 was to spin a positive narrative on the state of Indian agriculture. It claimed that Indian agriculture remained remarkably resilient owing to a rise in productivity, an expansion of crop diversification, and an increase...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has termed the agriculture sector as the first engine of growth and announced schemes such as the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana–a scheme that is likely to benefit 1.7 crore farmers in 100 districts with low crop production–for the sector in the Budget presented in Parliament on Saturday. Union Agriculture...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhanya Krishi Yojana, or the developing agri-districts programme, in her record 8th Union Budget presentation on Saturday (February 1, 2025). Watch: Union Budget 2025: What’s in it for agriculture? The programme is motivated by the Aspirational Districts Programme which was launched in 2018 to “to quickly...