Spread the love       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 biennial event...

Spread the love       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 cultivation in...

Spread the love       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 in farmers’...

Spread the love       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 Minister Shivraj...

Spread the love       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 and effectively...

Spread the love      Considering the ten earlier Budgets of the BJP-led government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there is nothing much that the farmers and agricultural workers of India can expect from the coming Union Budget 2025 (eleventh) except more vicious attacks on their livelihood, made under the smokescreen of high-sounding phrases about their welfare. Dismal record To put it...

Spread the love      GUWAHATI An association of tea planters and traders has sought stringent steps to ensure cheaper duty-free teas from African, Asian and South American countries are not imported by a section of traders, to be re-exported, at the cost of the image of the beverage produced in India. The steps suggested include bailing the Indian tea industry out of...

Spread the love       GUWAHATI A jump in tea imports from African and Asian countries coupled with the Tea Board’s directive on early closure of tea production across North India has impacted the small-scale planters, an association of small tea growers has said. Also Read | Tea body fears 50% crop loss ahead In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Spread the love       GUWAHATI India, the world’s largest tea producer after China, has become the largest importer of the beverage from Kenya. According to the Tea Board of Kenya, exports to India shot up from 3.53 million kg from January to October 2023 to 13.71 million kg during the same period in 2024. The 288% jump makes India the country’s largest...

Spread the love       : Karnataka’s big coffee planters, reeling under years of labour shortage, are enjoying a welcome respite this harvest season as migrant workers arrived in sufficient numbers to meet the demand even as coffee prices have hit a record high this year, offering a financial cushion to growers after years of challenges. For the past five years, coffee...