Order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the matter of Bhisham Kinger Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 13/05/2025. The matter is related to deteriorating medical infrastructure in Punjab, especially Malerkotla district. An affidavit filed before the court showed that certain vacancies of doctors at Malerkotla have …
The state government has increased the organic farming area in Nashik division from 800 hectares to 1,200 hectares to promote the form of agriculture and discourage use of chemical fertilizers. Two years ago, the area under organic farming, which largely depends on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost …
Sangrur district tops the state in rice yield per hectare and the total production during the Kharif 2013-14 season. This was revealed by the statistician of the Punjab Agriculture Department. The findings were sent to the Chief Agriculture Officer, Sangrur, last week. Data states that Sangrur district has topped the …
Two farmers of Sangrur district have been awarded for adoption of innovative agricultural techniques and commercialisation of agriculture. Tirath Singh of Sandaur village in Ahmedgarh block and Jagdeep Singh of Kanoi village (near Sangrur) were recently conferred with the “Innovative Farmer Award” at Agricultural Science Fair by the Indian Agricultural …
The spread of farm extension services and mechanisation will get a fillip with the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approving the implementation of the National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology (NMAET) for the 12th Plan Period. NMAET, which aims to restructure and strengthen the agricultural extension to enable …
The Andhra Pradesh Government will spend Rs 274 crore to provide mechanised tools at subsidised prices to farmers. The Government has prepared final guidelines on mechanisation in agriculture. “We are going to announce the amended guidelines,” State Agriculture Kanna Lakshminarayana said, after clearing the draft guidelines that will be sent …
1,92,306 farmers have been identified for this programme With the launch of the Farm Crop Management System in Tuticorin, as many as 1, 92, 306 progressive farmers have been identified across the district to benefit from this new initiative, according to Joint Director of Agriculture, N.K. Dhakshinamoorthy. The programme was …
Farmers in 14 villages across the State will soon be equipped with hi- tech and precision farming methods to boost the production of banana and vegetables. The government has accorded administrative sanction for a flagship project mooted by the Agriculture department to establish poly houses and popularise precision farming techniques. …
The Annual Credit Plan (ACP) for Namakkal District for the financial year 2013-14 at an outlay of Rs. 2,565 crore that will cover 10,93,364 borrowers in the priority sectors was released by District Collector D. Jagannathan here on Tuesday. He said that the targeted credit for this year is Rs. …
Though agriculture has always been considered as a robust growth engine for Bihar, the farm mechanisation remained a low priority for the successive State Governments till a few year ago. But now the Government has awakened to the occasion by putting its machinery in top gear to improve productivity of …
The Punjab government has introduced “Farm Mechanization” plan aimed at tracking agriculture sector on production lines in the province. Sources in the Agriculture department told The Nation that under the plan the government was making adequate efforts to create awareness about the importance and utility of mechanized farming among the …
Japan will provide a grant of US$ 2,26,186, approximately Tk 1.81 crore, for two agricultural development projects in rural areas of Bangladesh. In this regard, two contracts were signed by Shiro Sadoshima, Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, on Wednesday in the capital. The two projects will establish unique models of agricultural …
Plant will manufacture agricultural implements, hydraulic reversible plough, seedbed preparation implements, cultivators & disc harrows Germany based Agro equipment manufacturer Lemken GmbH & Co. KG has set up a manufacturing plant in Nagpur with the investment of Rs 60 crore. The plant will manufacture agricultural implements, hydraulic reversible plough, seedbed …
To get outlay of Rs 20,000-25,000 cr proposal for subisdised loans, too The government has decided on a comprehensive push for mechanisation of agriculture, by setting up machinery hiring centres in every village in the 12th Plan period. These machinery is to be leased for harvest with support from states …
India is the largest producer, consumer, importer and processor of pulses in the world. Ironically, the country’s pulse production has been hovering around 14–15 Mt, coming from a near-stagnated area of 22–23 M ha, since 1990–91. For meeting the demand of the growing population, the country is importing pulses to …
Despite the steady growth of India’s farm sector in the past five years, the country has not been able to utilise fully the many scientific achievements in the agriculture sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday. “It represents failure of the system,” Singh said while speaking at the Golden …
The National Agricultural Research Plan (NARP) is a consolidated action plan for scientific research in agriculture. It sets out the research agenda of the major thrust areas in agriculture. The research plan sets out in summary from the key elements of scientific work to be carried out in a short …
India's economic success has been remarkable; India's agricultural success will follow. Rural India still needs nurturing, not necessarily by just extra funding, but with vision and leadership addressing issues, with down to earth, workable solutions.
Mechanization in agriculture through modern power sources along with matching implements brings in added operational capacity, reduced dependence on labour, timeliness in field operations. This would lead to increased productivity and conservation of inputs, besides increase in profitability and sustainability of agriculture.
During the 1970s, major policy debates on the role of mechanisation in agricultural and rural development in south Asia took place; by the early 1990s, such debates had largely faded. Yet today, countries such as Bangladesh possess some of the most productive, mechanised and labour-intensive agricultural industries in south Asia. …
Using macro level data on MGNREGA performance in drought-prone states of Karnataka and Rajasthan as well as in irrigation-dominated state of Andhra Pradesh, this study has revealed that the impact of MGNREGA wage on the economic scarcity of labour is relatively modest when compared with the impact of hike in …
