Dehradun: Uttarakhand is likely to pass the much-awaited Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, setting the stage for private companies like RIL and ITC to get into contract farming in the state and set up private mandis.
Japanese firm's India arm to set up biofuel plant.
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Allied Carbon Solutions of Japan, a biofuel company with a multinational presence, has launched a contract farming programme for jatropha cultivation in South India.
In economies across the world, agriculture once considered more a way of life, is now seen as a potential for commercial propositions. Currently corporate intervention in agriculture is seen in many forms, right from direct farming activities to business in related areas pertaining to agriculture and the rural economy.
Welcoming the Government's move to provide small industrial plots to the SME sector, the CII said it would alleviate the problems of a small entrepreneur.
Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as drought or floods can have a devastating impact on food security as well as the social and economic development of rural households. In recent years, an increasing number of initiatives have tested weather index-based insurance to help manage these risks in agriculture.
In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the predominance of small and marginal farms and a growing feminisation of agriculture, this paper argues for a new institutional approach to poverty reduction, agricultural revival and social empowerment.
Union Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Sharad Pawar spoke with Managing Editor Shankkar Aiyar and answered a volley of charges with a straight bat.
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This paper assesses the capacity of organic and resource-conserving agriculture (ORCA) to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholders in Africa. Distinguishing among the different practices related to ORCA is sometimes difficult because
