Because of deficient rainfall in the monsoon season, All India Kisan Sabha has raised a demand to declare drought in Marathwada region, which has already reported 685 farmer suicides till August 31 this year.

To revolutionise India’s agricultural sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched a door-to-door Kisan Credit Card campaign. Details here.

To revolutionise India’s agricultural sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched a door-to-door Kisan Credit Card campaign. Details here.

Introduced in the state in 2016, Kushal Kisan is an initiative that has helped farmers adopt best agricultural practices, increase their produce and earn more revenue. Over 25,000 Kushal Kisan (trained farmers) are there across Jharkhand.

Both over and under development of groundwater is limiting the adaptive capacity of Indian agriculture to climate change. Solar irrigation, expanding across India, may provide an opportunity to manage groundwater in both over and underexploited areas.

Six rural women from Vaishali district in Bihar have set up the state’s first FPO, with support of Jeevika, where they make banana yarn out of discarded banana stems. The yarn is used to make several products such as bags, handicraft items, paper and rakhees

The farmers’ agitation, demanding compensation for the losses they faced during the recent floods, has shifted venue to the Nai Mandi at Ambala, 12 kilometres from the Shambhu Barrier on the Haryana-Punjab border where many of them were detained and their tractors impounded.