The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) is gearing up to start “School of Smart Agriculture” soon at its campus in Dehradun, Uttarkhand

“The Agriculture Department wants to tread the path of organic and eco-friendly farming. It has been holding talks with propagators of cosmic farming and other believers of similar activities ...

The Ministry for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare organised the first National consultative workshop on Strengthening Agri-Logistics in e-National Agriculture Market (e-Nam) in Delhi on January 21.

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Making agriculture profitable. Self-reliance is the best answer, say farmers in Hiware Bazar village in Ahmednagar district. Farmers here have multiplied their income by conserving every drop of ...

The state of agriculture market. Farmers’ participation in agriculture markets is equally worrisome. The Dalwai Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income has pointed out that the share of farmers ...

A farm relief or booster package for the farmers was expected in the Interim Budget 2019, given the focus of the Government on addressing the agrarian crisis. Living up to these expectations and walki

Financial stress in the banking sector was visible in Gujarat, where the non-performing assets (NPAs) of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and agriculture sectors rose sharply during ...

Waters of the Godavari will be tapped by reverse pumping and storage, thereby facilitating agriculture on over 38 lakh acres, including creating about 18 lakh acres of new ayacut, helping ...

“The Agriculture Department wants to tread the path of organic and eco-friendly farming. It has been holding talks with propagators of cosmic farming and other believers of similar activities ...

Gross Capital Formation (which is a proxy for investments) in agriculture as a percentage of agri-GDP was 9.2 per cent in 1980-81, and reached its peak at 18.2 per cent in 2011-12.

In 1995, the share of private investment in total agriculture R&D spend was a trivial 3 per cent which grew to 9 per cent in 2000 and 16 per cent in 2006 in China. Back home, the private sector ...

The number of farmers that the Centre assumed for calculating the cost of PM-Kisan scheme is from the Agriculture Census 2015-16 which had put the number of operational agriculture landholdings in ...

Diversion of agriculture loans in some of the states is a huge cause for concern, as it accentuates the problem of debt overhang. RBI data suggests that there is a high risk of indebtedness in ...

The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) is gearing up to start “School of Smart Agriculture” soon at its campus in Dehradun, Uttarkhand

Financial stress in the banking sector was visible in Gujarat, where the non-performing assets (NPAs) of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and agriculture sectors rose sharply during ...

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) on Monday announced a Rs 700-crore venture capital fund for equity investments in agriculture and rural-focused startups.

The share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in the overall GVA has been sliding over the years and in 2018-19, it stood at 14.4 per cent. In 2013-14, the share was 17.8 per cent.

The manifesto of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on the other hand, promised to “provide short-term new agriculture loans up to ₹1 lakh at a 0 per cent interest rate for 1-5 years on the ...

“In agriculture, we have to plan from seed to consumption and Aibono is India’s first seed-to-plate aggregator platform”, Rajkumar claimed, before explaining the company’s strategy. How it ...