Agriculture

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Crop Insurance Schemes, 01/03/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Crop Insurance Schemes, 01/03/2016. State-wise details of farmers covered during last one year (i.e. 2014-15) under various crops insurance schemes including National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) is at Annexure. National Crop Insurance Scheme (NCIP) envisages coverage of Food Crops (Cereals, Millets & Pulses), Oilseeds and Annual Commercial/Horticultural Crops for which past yield data based on single series of Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) & weather data for sufficient past years is available.

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Crop Insurance, Farmers, Agriculture, Statistics, India, Parliament
Dams/ Irrigation

Budget 2016: Farmers welcome focus on expansion of irrigation

Industry and farmer bodies have welcomed the budget's focus on expansion of irrigation across the country, which is likely to irrigate an additional lakh hectares.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2016
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Irrigation, Farmers, Agriculture, Budget, Ministry Of Agriculture, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Crop Insurance, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Dams/ Irrigation
Economy

Economic Survey 2016: India a haven of stability amidst gloomy global economic landscape

NEW DELHI: Presenting an optimistic picture of Indian economy, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian's Economic Survey 2015-16 said that amidst the gloomy landscape of unusual volatility in the

Publication Date: 
26/02/2016
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Economy, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Direct Cash Transfer, Health, Agriculture, Corruption, Crop Insurance
Agriculture

Smallholder diaries: building the evidence base with farming families in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Pakistan

There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farming households globally, who comprise a large proportion of the world’s poor living on less than $2 a day.