BHUBANESWAR: Even though Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced interim relief for the farmers who suffered crop loss on account of erratic monsoon and caterpillars, no provision has reportedly been made for this in the first supplementary Budget.
The supplementary Budget was approved by the Council of Ministers on Monday.
No special provisions were made for agriculture, sources said.
A significant number of farmers in nearly a dozen villages of Jhajjar district, about 30 km from here, are on the verge of ruin following the alleged 'lethargic' attitude of the district administration in draining out accumulated rain water from their fields.
BHUBANESWAR: Sustainability of crop production depends greatly on soil fertility management. Though organic manures and bio-fertilisers can be supplements it to some extent, scientists feel that there is a greater challenge ahead to meet the projected food grain production by 2025.
PARADIP: Paddy crop over thousands of hectares has been damaged by brown planthoppers in Jagatsinghpur district.
In the current kharif season, paddy was cultivated over 75,000 hectares in the district. However, the crops were completely damaged by the brown planthoppers.
Sources said the brown planthoppers suck the sap of the plant, pluck the xylem and phloem vessels turning leaves yellow.
The impact of drought on agricultural output this kharif season is expected to weigh down the shoots of economic recovery with the first advance estimate projecting an 18 per cent dip in the kharif crop this year as compared to last year with cotton being the sole
Amidst confusion over fate of PAU-201 rice variety in the state markets, the Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Department has lodged its protest with the Union Agriculture Ministry over the way the ministry
SAMBALPUR: A visit of a three-member delegation of civil liberties group Lok Nayak Jay Prakash International Research and Development Centre to the villages of Khapsadera, Pradhan Pali and Jamankira in Sambalpur district and Sagarpali in Jharsuguda district where farmers committed suicide, concluded today.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday announced a Rs 50 per quintal bonus over and above the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to maximise procurement of paddy for government stocks so that the
