The State Bank of India (SBI) has urged the farmers to avail loans for agriculture from banks and reap the benefit of the interest subvention permitted by the Government of India and the State Government in respect of agricultural crop loan.
SBI has already covered 336 villages out of 399 un-banked villages allotted to SBI, having a population of over 2,000 in Assam.
Letter to Andhra Pradesh CM from the Millet Network of India on the government's decision to provide an input subsidy for maize farmers to a tune of Rs.5000 per acre.
Agricultural sector is in continuous decline for the last three years, registering an overall 10 percent drop in different major and minor crops output owing to neglected research, discouraging development of local new varieties of crops and allocation of insufficient funds for development.
Cotton crop has registered a 10 percent decline during the last three years as in Punjab its output has c
As kharif sowing begin in irrigated belts of India, farmers are changing the sowing pattern depending on the remunerative prices they got in the previous year.
Long-awaited showers finally hit French grain fields over the weekend and more rain is expected this week in most key European producers, but it will likely not be enough to reverse drought damage to winter crops.
"For the moment it is not a revolution," Strategie Grains head analyst Andree Defois said about the French crop.
High volatility and price swings in food commodities are likely to prevail for the rest of this year and could continue into 2012, UN body Food and Agriculture Organisation today said.
The projections made for pulses production for year 2010-11 in Madhya Pradesh have been upset due to heavy damage to pulses crops by frost and cold waves.
It may be mentioned here that projections for pulses are made many times. The projection of pulses production published in the administrative report of the farmers welfare and agriculture department for 2010-11 were made many months ago.
