Indian Agriculture

NEW DELHI: Agriculture and allied sectors grew by 2.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2010-11 fiscal, higher than 1.9 per cent in the same period last year. In 2009-10 fiscal, the agriculture and allied sector had recorded the lowest growth in five years, at 0.2 per cent, due to widespread drought that affected [...]

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched a three-year pilot project in six districts of Tamil Nadu to make agriculture more viable by reducing inputs and labour costs while increasing productivity. Implemented in collaboration with the State Government, non-governmental organisations and the local community, the project would focus on major crops [...]

LUDHIANA: “Those involved in agricultural research, agriculture teaching and transfer of technology are doing noble work,” said Dr CD Mayee, chairman, Agricultural Service Recruitment Board ( ASRB), New Delhi. He said this while delivering a talk on “Employment avenues in agricultural research services” to the students and faculty of Punjab Agricultural University on Friday. The [...]

The kharif acreage has exceeded the last year’s level by 78.93 lakh hectares. The Crop and Weather Watch Group in the Ministry of Agriculture, at its meeting on Friday, noted that the crops were so far sown in 950.22 lakh hectares as against 871.29 lakh hectares in the corresponding period last year. As per the [...]

It was a bloody Independence Day in several villages of Uttar Pradesh. Hundreds of farmers fought pitched battles with the state police over poor compensation for land acquired for the Yamuna Expressway — chief minister Mayawati’s prestige highway project. At least three farmers were killed in police firing while an officer of the Provincial Armed [...]

The agriculture sector had a difficult first six months this year, its growth slowed by 2.59 percent because of the El Niño-induced dry spell. Despite the sector’s slowdown, farmers and fishers were better off because of higher prices they got for their products during the first six months, with farm gate prices registering an average [...]