Agricultural Inputs

Jodhpur: Reiterating the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, agriculture and farmers' welfare minister for state Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that he would work towards achieving the goal of d

Publication Date:

11/09/2017

Source: Times Of India (Jaipur)

Tags:

Rajasthan, Farmers, Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs

Agriculture

Soil organic phosphorus transformations during 2000 years of paddy-rice and non-paddy management in the Yangtze River Delta, China

The contents and properties of soil organic phosphorus (Po) largely drive ecosystem productivity with increasing development of natural soil. We hypothesized that soil Po would initially increase with paddy management and then would persist under steady-state conditions. We analyzed soils from a 2000-year chronosequence of a rice-wheat rotation and an adjacent non-paddy 700-year chronosequence in Bay of Hangzhou (China) for their Po composition using solution 31P-NMR after NaOH-EDTA extraction.

Publication Date:

07/09/2017

Author(s): Xiaoqian Jiang, Wulf Amelung, Barbara J. Cade-Menun & et al

Source: Scientific Reports

pp:

1-12

Tags:

Rice, Yangtze-kiang, Rivers, China, Soil Capability, Wheat, Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs

Agriculture

1,327 farmer suicides till June, 14% drop from 2016

Mumbai: As many as 1,327 farmers have committed suicide in the state in the last six months, official figures show. This is only 14% less than the 1,543 cases recorded till June-end last year.

Publication Date:

19/07/2017

Source: Times Of India (Mumbai)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Agriculture, Soyabean, Crops, Agricultural Inputs, Farmers

Agriculture

Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2016

This annual flagship publication released by the Ministry of agriculture is a rich source of data on a wide range of parameters, such as area, production and productivity of various crops across States, land-use statistics, price support and procurement, international trade, credit and insurance.

Publication Date:

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Source: Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

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Tags:

Agriculture, India, Statistics, GDP, Crops, Horticulture, Agricultural Inputs, Crop Insurance

Agriculture

10 farmers commit suicide in Chhattisgarh in 2 weeks

Agriculture Minister says a very few of them are related to farming

Publication Date:

28/06/2017

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Chhattisgarh, Farmers, Durg (D), Kawardha (D), Dhamtari (D), Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture

Agriculture

Agri distress: More than demonetisation, old issues continue to haunt farmers

A glimpse of the price movement of some of the key farm commodities in recent years suggests that while one-off factors like demonetisation may have temporarily dampened the prices at the wholesale

Publication Date:

15/06/2017

Source: Financial Express (New Delhi)

Tags:

Agriculture, Farmers, Agricultural Inputs, Horticulture, Vegetables

Agriculture

Madhya Pradesh: 11000 farmer suicides reported in 9 years

BHOPAL: In an agrarian state like Madhya Pradesh, more than 26 lakh farmers have taken farm loans worth Rs 13,000 crore from co-operative banks, say bank sources while the latest national crime rec

Publication Date:

13/06/2017

Source: Times Of India (Bhopal)

Tags:

Madhya Pradesh, Farmers, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture

Agriculture

Farmers warn of anger spilling on roads

Amritsar: Drawing a parallel with the demands of farmers of Punjab with those in Madhya Pradesh (MP), the peasant bodies in Majha region have urged the government to fulfil their demands of farm lo

Publication Date:

09/06/2017

Author(s): Yudhvir Rana

Source: Times of India (Chandigarh)

Tags:

Punjab, Farmers, Madhya Pradesh, Crop Insurance, Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture

Agriculture