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Northeast India small tea growers demand fair price for green leavesSmall tea growers in Shillong are demanding fair prices for their green tea leaves. They are urging the government to implement a Minimum S...
UP govt offering subsidies on purchase of agricultural drones, machineryThe Uttar Pradesh government is offering subsidies on agricultural drones and machinery to boost productivity for farmers. Applications are...
India will soon become largest tech centre for CNH Industrial: Marc KermischCNH - which has 600 engineers working at the India Technical Centre (ITC) in Gurugram (Haryana) - is in the process of hiring an additional...
India's sugar crop harvest faces delays with Covid-19 raging throughout nationIndia's sugar harvest begins in October, when other major producers are winding down. The country's industry is not mechanized, however, re...
Pandemic induced labour scarcity increases demand for sugarcane harvesting machines in South IndiaMaharashtra, the country’s second-largest sugar producing state, employs close to 1 million migrant labours every year to help in sugarcane...
Wheat output likely to rise in India as acreage rises in key statesThe sowing this season has progressed earlier than the last year in most states including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, a t...
Economic Survey: Emphasis on women farmers for rural transformationThe policy seeks to ensure that women farmers get enhanced access to resources such as credit, technology and training at a time when migra...
Economic Survey says need to consolidate land holding & push farm machinery rental businessTabled by Arun Jaitley in Parliament today, the ES said that Indian farmers were adapting to farm mechanization at a faster rate in compari...
Low produce, undecided prices irk Tamil Nadu cane growersSugar mills in Tamil Nadu have produced only 1.70 lakh tonnes of sugar till 31 December 2017 compared to the 1.86 lakh tonnes produced last...
Agrarian crisis: Serious drought looms large over South IndiaReeling off the numbers, the farmer said the cost of cultivating corn on two acres alone would run up to Rs 15,000.
States ignore national policy on crop residue management; Indulge in stubble burningHad the Delhi’s neighbouring states adhered to the guidelines of the two-year-old national policy for management of crop residue (NPMCR), t...
Seeding time for startups in farm mechanisation businessInvestor interest is peaking in these startups as well. Agri-startup VillFarm, a sustainable agri inputs company is the latest to secure fu...
Helping tillers with technology: Now, Farmers can request a machine by calling EM3 AgriServicesAt Escorts, where he was the chief executive until 2012, Mal gained deep insights into India’s agricultural landscape.
- My top priority is to check food prices, says KV Thomas
The current bout of high inflation in food items has been led by vegetables, fruits, poultry and dairy products while foodgrains have been ...
Sugarcane finds no takers in MaharashtraThe surplus cane situation is not widespread across the state
- Grape growers hit as wine sales fall in ’09
As the recession put the brakes on Maharashtra's thriving wine industry, the contract system of wineries to source their raw material, wine...
- Soil no bar: Gujarat farmers going hi-tech
Eyeing the huge export market, especially for exotic flowers, farmers are cosying up to hydroponics - a “soil-less system of growing plants...