The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Sharnappa Mudgal, Joint Director of Agriculture, has underlined the need for farmers to revert to organic farming to protect the health of the soil, environment and also of people. He was speaking at a day-long symposium on creating “Social awareness on the need for reverting to organic/natural farming”, organised by …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned a loan of Rs. 204.67 crore under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for rural infrastructure in Haryana. Stating this here on Sunday, a spokesman said of the total loan sanctioned, Rs. 147.18 crore has been sanctioned to the …
Climate change cannot be rectified merely through economics, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said today while stressing on the need to mobilise financial resources for clean and green investment. Inaugurating a workshop on private sector facility under Green Climate Fund (GCF), he said Indian agricultural scientists were fully capable of …
LUDHIANA: Scientists at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Gadvasu) have earned a competitive research project, "Towards climate resilient livestock production system in Punjab," from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change, under the National adaptation fund on climate change. Research director Dr SNS Randhawa said Gadvasu …
The Standing Committee on Finance present this Thirty Fourth Report on the subject "State of Rural / Agriculture Banking and Crop Insurance". A comprehensive and viable agricultural finance mechanism and a financially inclusive framework to increase the coverage of crop loan, rural credit in general as also infusion of finance …
TURA: Farmers in the plains belt region of West Garo Hills who have had their standing crops washed away in the recent floods are calling upon the government to waive their loans. As many as three hundred farmers from the Phulbari-Bhaitbari region held a peaceful protest at New Bhaitbari market …
As Tamil Nadu has become a water-deficit state, Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam on Thursday announced the revival of kudimaramath , an ancient system of maintaining and managing water bodies by local communities themselves. “The State will embark on a mission for water resource management to restore water bodies and revive …
The Environment Ministry held a two-day consultation to provide hands-on training to states for submitting proposals for accessing climate change finance. "The workshop has been organised with a view to provide hands-on training to state government officials for formulating and submitting proposals for accessing climate change finance under the National …
With changing agricultural business environment, the conventional direct marketing method is becoming a less feasible option for small and marginal farmers due to emergence of supermarkets, increasing consumers’ preference for value-added food products, high production and marketing cost associated with small scale of operations and increasing consumers’ emphasis on quality, …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has blamed banks’ insistence for collateral security for the poor adoption of solar water pumps in the country. India has about 20 million agricultural pumps that work on electricity (supplied free) and another 7 million that run on diesel. The government of India …
In an effort to provide hands-on training to State government officials for formulating and submitting proposals for accessing climate change finance under the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC), Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Adaptation Fund Board (AFB), the Environment Ministry held the third regional workshop with State governments …
Clean cook-stove manufacturer Envirofit India, a subsidiary of Envirofit International, is targeting to sell 10 lakh such stoves by 2020 in the country, a top official said on Wednesday. “In the first seven years of our existence in India, since 2008, we sold one million cook-stoves. Now we are planning …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has helped the water deprived Mohargarh village in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir. The bank has not only strengthened the village economically by helping through agricultural skills and providing watersheds, but also provided the villagers a social strength with the Self …
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Thursday said that to provide adequate water for drinking and irrigation purposes in southern Haryana, especially in Loharu and Bahal areas of district Bhiwani, where water table is depleting, projects costing Rs 143 crore have been started with the assistance of NABARD. Addressing a …
State working with Centre for bringing changes in crop patterns, modifying investments. The districts of Marathwada and Vidarbha witnessing maximum farmer suicides in Maharashtra face higher risk to climate change. A report by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) recommends the state government to initiate policies and …
ONergy Solar, a leading award winning solar energy enterprise has partnered with Belghoria Janakalyan Samity (BJS), a renowned NGO and micro-finance institution having active presence across West Bengal. The initiative is to promote solar as a clean and reliable source of energy by ONergy and provision of solar financing by …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) should be groomed to supervise and control a dedicated climate change management fund. It is ideally suited, too, since 28 per cent of its cumulative disbursements are linked to climate change adaptation and mitigation, says VK Bhosale, General Secretary, All-India Nabard …
Approved over yr back, implementation of Action Plan yet to begin JAMMU: Despite much visible adverse impacts of climate change during the past some years, the Jammu and Kashmir continued to remain unconcerned towards this grave issue as the implementation of the Action Plan approved by the Union Ministry of …
The Potential Linked Credit Plan for 2016-17 prepared by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has assessed the credit potential for the district at Rs.4998.15 crore, a projected growth of 27 per cent more than the projections for the current year. At the district consultative committee meeting …
Siddaramaiah said that the government would increase the compensation from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to the families of farmers who committed suicide in the State. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said as many as 800 farmers had committed suicide in Karnataka. “We have implemented many farmer-friendly programmes. …
