Record production of food grains in India in 2016-17: Radha Mohan Singh
The Dollar Business Bureau There has been a record output of food grains in the country in 2016-17 and all the earlier records were broken, said Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Friday. “As per the 3rd Advance Estimates, food grain production India has increased to 273 MT, sugarcane to 306 MT oil seeds to 32.5 MT, in 2016-17,” said Singh, while addressing the National Agriculture Marketing Summit organised jointly by FICCI with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. “As per the 2nd Advance Estimate, fruits and vegetable production has increased to 287 MT, he added. On the goal of doubling income of farmers by 2022, the Minister said that only through cross-pollination of innovations and expertise, and thereafter collaboration during the implementation ...
e-mandis to be launched by the PM
The Dollar Business Bureau The PM’s initiative to launch e-mandis could be a deliverance to the farming community. Farmers could benefit by the technological initiative that aims at farmers in 8 states to sell 25 commodities in 21 wholesale mandis! On the occasion of 125th birthday of Ambedkar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the National Agricultural Market portal with an aim of connecting the e-mandis in all the states. The launching of e-mandis will happen in the evening today at Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “In the evening will launch e-trading platform for the National Agriculture Market. 21 mandis from 8 States will join the platform today.” The agriculture minister Radha Singh Mohan said that the government is aiming to assimilate 200 ...
Twelfth Five Year Plan aims to produce 25 mn tonnes of food grains
The Dollar Business Bureau The reforms and initiatives taken by the Government of India towards improvement of Agriculture & allied sectors will help in achieving a 25 million tonne-target of food grain production by the end of 12th Five Year Plan period. This was stated by M K Kundariya, Minister of State for Agriculture, on Wednesday, during his address at the ‘National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif Campaign-2015’, organised in New Delhi. While lauding the steps being taken by the Government of India through National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, the Minister stressed on need for making the farming sector a remunerative profession. In this regard, he called for reduced cost of production along with an increase in crop productivity, ...
