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Moving towards the world’s agro-technological frontier – Economic Survey 2015-16

Highlights on Agriculture: India should also fully leverage new low cost technologies that have wider benefits for agriculture. Cellphones have been creatively used by countries like Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Thailand to provide information on prices and cultivation to farmers which has led to massive increases in farm incomes. Since the costs of drones have fallen sharply, they…

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27/02/2016
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Indian tomato farmers stuck with unmarketable crops

Tomato farmers in Adilabad, India, are dismayed that they are unable to find buyers for their crop. The farmers are unwilling to harvest the standing crops as they cannot cover labour and transportation costs and therefore feeding their produce to cattle. Anticipating huge profits, farmers raised the crop, but are…

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23/02/2016
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Crop insurance scheme: Awareness, technology key for successful implementation

The NDA government recently launched a new crop insurance scheme titled Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) to mitigate the rural distress caused by crop failure or damage due to factors like unseasonal rains, monsoon failure, storms, floods, pests and diseases. According to the Agriculture Census Report 2010-11, the number…

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14/02/2016
Crop Market / CropInfo Choupal

Surplus production hits tomato growers badly

The farmers in the Madanapalle division are again at the receiving end due to the glut in tomato production and the stoppage of the purchase of produce by the traders from outside including from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu compounded the problems of the Chittoor farmers. The farmers who…

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12/02/2016
Crop Cultivation / CropInfo Choupal / Import & Export

Onion prices expected to decline further from current two-year lows

Onion prices are expected to decline further from their current two-year low level owing to arrival of late kharif crop in good numbers in most parts of the country. With the government removing all restrictions on export in anticipation of a glut, Indian produce is dominating all major international markets…

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11/02/2016