More players may enter contract farming

Mary P. Humphrey 2 days ago

The Cabinet selection on agreement farming will not only spur personal investments in agriculture but also absolutely free up farmers from the clutches of APMCs and persuade them to make top quality make, say stakeholders.

At current, even the farmer producer organisations (FPOs) or producer firms (PCs) are needed to search for authorization from the APMC of their respective jurisdictions ahead of getting into into any direct sale settlement underneath agreement farming.

Farmers can now have direct association with the processors or exporters. This is a huge enhance for the FPOs that can interact in processing and marketing functions, mentioned

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Tidal flows generate huge potential… – Information Centre – Research & Innovation

Mary P. Humphrey 2 days ago

More predictable than the wind and sunshine, tides have a substantial possible when it comes to producing clean up energy. With tidal turbines already producing energy within just our seas, the obstacle dealing with the business now is to lessen expenditures. A consortium of EU-funded organisations has been applying this understanding to produce a novel turbine ready to make tidal energy a lot more aggressive.

Fruit and vegetable output set to cross record 320 mt

Mary P. Humphrey 3 days ago

Ministry releases second advance estimates

Breathtaking improve in the production of onions immediately after the intense crop reduction through the past monsoon period, with each other with somewhat far better produce in potato and banana ,has helped the state to have a file horticulture harvest of 320.forty eight million tonnes (mt) in the recent crop yr, in accordance to the second advance estimates of horticulture crops produced by the Agriculcture Ministry on Tuesday.

Nonetheless, there has not been a great deal improve in area less than horticulture crops over 2018-19. The complete area less than these crops this yr was

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Allow use of maize for ethanol production, says CACP

Mary P. Humphrey 3 days ago

The Commission for Agricultural Expenses and Prices (CACP) has advised that the authorities let use of maize for generation of ethanol in the place, a shift that could support growers fetch superior costs.

In its selling price tips for Kharif 2020-21, CACP stated significant plan changes ended up demanded for pricing, procurement and utilisation of maize in the place.

Use of maize for ethanol generation will increase need and be certain remunerative costs and increased profits for maize growers, CACP stated and cited the illustration of the US, where by corn is the most seriously made use of feed inventory

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Maharashtra farmers begin pro-GM crop agitation

Mary P. Humphrey 3 days ago

HTBT cotton sowed in Wardha district

The Shetkari Sanghatana (SS), the apex overall body of farmers in Maharashtra, introduced professional-GM crop agitation by sowing HTBT cotton in Murgaon Khose village in Wardha district these days.

Khushal Balaji Hiwarkar, a farmer and member of SS sowed HTBT cotton seeds in his subject to mark the launch of the agitation. Farmers will keep on the agitation in other pieces of the State.

SS President Anil Ghanwat reported, “ Farmers will defy the ban on GM crop and sow HTBT cotton, soybean, brinjal and corn in the kharif season”. The delegation of farmers

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