Sunday, 12 July 2015

India Agriculture Updates - 13July'15 !

1. The state-run National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has set a target of providing Rs 30,000 crore as credit to farmers for irrigation over the next three years.

2. Facing the prospect of a deficient rainfall the Maharashtra government may go for generating artificial rainfall from August.

3. Haryana government said it has prepared Rs 143 crore project for rehabilitation of 35-year-old Jawahar Lal Nehru Feeder system.

4. Even as Maharashtra continues to grapple with an agrarian crisis, farmers in Latur, one of the drought-prone districts in the state, are slowly moving towards the organic way of farming to reduce input costs and increase agriculture output.

5. If plans of Telangana Government go well, insurance companies might soon launch agriculture insurance schemes with individual farm holdings as a unit.

6. Illegal import or rationed rice from TamilNadu at low cost into neighbouring areas of A.P state is causing serious problems to local dealers and retailers.

7. The A.P Chief Minister expressed anger over the huge number (925) of pending queries recieved from people, which includes around 1087 outstanding agricultural concerns.

8. DCCBs (District Central Co-operative Bank) are getting ready to issue fresh loans to farmers based on data made available by revenue authorities in WebLand.

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