BriefingJuly 27, 2021Rural Dvpt.Ministry and Tata Trusts Supported Non-Profit Tie up with Tech Firm to Promote Chemical Free and Low-Emissions Agriculture By vivian fernandes FDRVC and a 10-year-old Indian technology start-up called Innoterra have signed an MoU to promote…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingJune 30, 2021Cisco and Tata Trusts Provide Rs 2 cr to Five Agri-Startups to Digitally Enable Smallholder Farmers By vivian fernandes Five agri-tech startups will get Rs 42.5 lakh each for one year under a programme called Krishi…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingJune 28, 2021At Karnataka's Model Ramthal Project, Farmers Struggle To Make The Mindset Switch from Flood to Micro Irrigation By vivian fernandes Last month the non-bank finance company (NBFC) of Netafim Irrigation India got about Rs 420 cr in…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 29, 2021Even Palm Oil Has Risen by Half to Rs 133 a Kg; Why are Cooking Oil Prices So High? By vivian fernandes The rise in cooking oil prices has jolted the government. The Department of Food and Public…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 26, 2021Crop Care Federation Issues Ad Charging MNCs With Sitting on Ag Chem Patents to Choke Competition By vivian fernandes Crop Care Federation of India is at it again. After taking on anti-GM activists in a full-page…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 25, 2021Yuan Longping, Father of Hybrid Rice, Dies; Mourners Throng to Pay Tributes By vivian fernandes Mourners at the Mingyangshan Funeral Home in Changsha. Photo Courtesy of Global Times. Yuan Longping…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 21, 2021Pune-based Farm ERP Firm Ties Up With State Bank of India For an App to Enable Smallholder Farmers Keep Tab on Cost and Profit By vivian fernandes It is said that if you can measure it you can manage it. Most farmers are unable to manage cost of…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingMay 5, 2021Poly House Cultivation is Not Profitable without Subsidy, HP University Researchers Find By vivian fernandes Is protected cultivation in poly houses profitable? Indervir Singh, Faculty Member of the Central…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingApril 21, 2021Shetkari Sanghatana President Writes to SEBI Chairman Asking Him Not to Give in to Traders' Lobby and Ban Futures Trading in Soybean By vivian fernandes This is an email which the Shetkari Sanghatana, a union of farmers based in Maharashtra, sent…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingApril 20, 2021There're Fewer Farmers Than the Official Count; They Need a Safety Net, says IE Editor By vivian fernandes When I spoke to Jagtar Brar, a farmer of Mehma Sarja village, near Goniana Mandi in Bathinda for his…Read more 0 0 Share