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The Dollar Business Bureau Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Sunday that India is the second largest producer of horticultural crops and fruits after China, and added that this is the result of research and development projects in horticulture crops. “Research and development projects in horticulture crops have yielded encouraging results, as a result, the production of horticulture crops have been more than food grains irrespective of adverse climatic conditions,” Singh said, while speaking at the World Orange Day 2017 event in Nagpur.  “After China, India is the second largest producer of horticultural crops and fruits,” he added. The Minister said that during 2015-16, over 9 crore metric tonne of fruits were produced on 63 lakhs hectare of land. As ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Sunday dairy industry offers enormous opportunities for the entrepreneurs all over the world and added that the country continues to be the world’s largest producer of milk. “India is the ‘Oyster' of the global dairy industry with opportunities galore for the entrepreneurs globally, said Singh while addressing a function on the occasion of National Milk Day, being celebrated on the birth anniversary of Dr. Verghese Kurien, the father of white revolution. The Minister further said that the milk production in India rose by 18.81% in the past three years and reached 163.6 million tonnes, leading to a considerable increase in income of dairy farmers. “Our milk production has increased to ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Radha Mohan Singh the Agriculture Minister, while addressing the 89th foundation day of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) remarked that ' India will become self- sufficient in pulses and oilseeds production in the coming years with the government taking steps to boost yields through use of better quality seeds and technologies.' India imports over 5 million tonnes of pulses and 14.5 million tons of vegetable oils(edible and non-edible) every year. The minister said, that the government is focussed in not only increasing production but taking steps to make agriculture, income-centric as part of its target to double farmers' income by 2022. He asked the scientists to take up this mission and achieve the target and also ensure the overall development ...

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 ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  India’s foodgrain production is expected to reach a new high in the crop year 2017-18 which begins from July, on the hopethat India has normal rains consecutively for the second year, said Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh.  Foodgrain output is projected to be at a record high at 273.38 million tonnes in the current crop year (July-June) on the back of good monsoon after drought for two years, compared to 251.57 million tonnes previous year. The last all-time high output was 265.04 million tonnes in the crop year 2013-14. Foodgrain list consists of wheat, rice, pulses and coarse cereals. “The Met department has forecasted normal monsoon for this year. If the monsoon is good, I am confident that foodgrain output will boost growth rate to more than 4.4% achieved in ...

The Dollar Business Bureau India is committed to an early implementation of G20 agricultural pledges, made at the G20 agriculture ministers’ meetings, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Sunday. Addressing the G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting in Berlin, Singh said India will continue to extend its support to early implementation of past commitments made at the earlier meetings, particularly in the fields of research and development, collaboration and knowledge transfer, action to combat food loss and waste, and information and communication technologies (ICT). Singh further said that it was important for the G20 member countries and also the non-member countries to achieve the sustainable global food security goals, and that there was emerging needs to meet food and nutritional security challenges through innovative solutions ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  Announcing the completion of e-NAM first phase and also launching of the e-NAM mobile app, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh said most of the implementation issues faced in the pilot phase have been addressed. The e-NAM platform has been connected to 250 markets in ten states: Andhra Pradesh (12), Chhattisgarh (05), Gujarat (40), Haryana (36), Himachal Pradesh (07), Jharkhand (08), Madhya Pradesh (20), Rajasthan (11), Telangana (44) and Uttar Pradesh (67). The government has approved detailed project reports (DPRs) for integrating 399 mandis with e-NAM from 14 states of the country. The minister is confident that e-NAM will enhance the farmers’ income, availability of trade at a lesser cost to the buyers and development of permanent mandis, thereby giving ...

PTI  The government today said agricultural production has been increasing even though cultivable area has seen a marginal decline. Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh told the Lok Sabha that state governments have to take suitable measures to check diversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes while Centre is taking steps to increase the cultivable area. "Despite marginal decline in the cultivable area, the agricultural production in the country has been increasing except in the years affected by drought, floods and other natural calamities," Singh said during Question Hour. The average area under cultivation declined to 181.713 million hectares in 2013-14 compared to 182.209 million hectares during the period from 2007-08 to 2011-12, according to official data. As per Agriculture Census ...