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Now farmers can do business with farming, central government will help

25/07/2020

To increase the income of farmers, many new efforts are being made continuously by the government. In this series, Minister of State for Farmers ‘Welfare Kailash Chaudhary said that’ the central government has decided to set up 10,000 FPOs to increase the income of farmers by the year 2023-24. These FPOs will be supported by the government for five years. About Rs, 6,866 crores will be spent on this work.

Explaining about this scheme, the Union Minister further said that “After registering the farmer’s organization, their work will be given 5 lakh rupees every year and this amount will be 15 lakhs for 3 years”. In this scheme, 300 farmers will be from the plains and 100 farmers from the hilly region.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Know what is going on in the mandis of Madhya Pradesh?

23/07/2020

Private mandis will now open in Madhya Pradesh, farmers will benefit from this

Wheat in Gautampura mandi of Indore is priced at Rs 1716 per quintal. At the same time, the price of dollar gram in this market is Rs. 3800 per quintal. Talking about soybean, its model rate in Gautampura mandi is being stated as Rs 3500 per quintal.

After Gautampura, if we talk about the Mhow (Ambedkar Nagar) mandi of Indore, then the price of wheat is Rs 1745 per quintal, the price of dollar gram is Rs 4200 per quintal, the price of gram is Rs 3925 per quintal and the price of soybean is Rs 3560 per quintal.

Talk about Khargone Market, here the price of wheat is Rs. 1775 per quintal and the price of corn is Rs. 1150 per quintal. Apart from this, wheat is being sold at Bhikangaon Mandi for Rs 1787 per quintal, gram Rs 3801 per quintal, tur / arhar Rs 4740 per quintal, maize Rs 1185 per quintal, moong Rs 6100 per quintal and soybean at Rs 3600 per quintal.

Source: Kisan Samadhan

Heavy rains may occur in these states, Meteorological Department issued alert

22/07/2020 Wednesday July 22nd, 2020

In the midst of the Corona epidemic, several states of the country remain in a state of crisis due to heavy rains and floods. The Meteorological Department has issued torrential rain alerts for many states for the coming days as well.

According to the Meteorological Department, there is a possibility of continuous rains in most areas of North India. Along with this, the Meteorological Department has also issued Orange and Yellow alerts for some areas.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department, there is a possibility of heavy rain in many states of North India for the next two days. There is a possibility of torrential rain in some areas like Haryana, Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, etc. Apart from this, light to moderate rains has also been forecast in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.

Source: Patrika

Farmers of 18 districts of Madhya Pradesh are getting worried due to the monsoon’s Uncertainty

21/07/2020

In Madhya Pradesh, the monsoon was knocked on time, but for the last few days, monsoon is being Uncertain in many districts of the state. Due to this, lakhs of farmers of the state are upset. Farmers say that if the monsoon does not get good rain in the coming week, then they will suffer heavy losses. On behalf of the meteorological department based in Bhopal, it has been reported that “Gwalior-Chambal, Bundelkhand, and Mahakaushal areas have received less rainfall. Guna has received less than 7%, Gwalior minus 45%.

Districts like Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, Bhind, Datia, Guna, Shivpuri, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Sagar, Tikamgarh, Balaghat, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Katni, Dhar, Mandsaur, Shajapur and Hoshangabad have received very less rainfall. In the month of July last year, 643.1 mm of rainfall was recorded in Madhya Pradesh, while 318.6 mm of rain has been recorded since June 1 this year.

Source: Live Hindustan

Farmers of Madhya Pradesh have sown kharif crops in 118 lakh hectare till now

20/07/2020

Monsoon effect: 104% increase in cotton sowing with pulses, oilseed crops

After being at the forefront of the procurement of wheat, now farmers of Madhya Pradesh are now meeting the target set for sowing in the Kharif season as well. The farmers of the state have so far sown Kharif crops in 118 lakh hectares of land. This figure is 80% of the total target set. Soon, the farmers will not only achieve their target up to 100% but will also go ahead of the target. Significantly, this year, a target of sowing 146.31 lakh hectare for the Kharif season.

Sowing of soybean, the main Kharif crop in the state, has been completed up to 97%. The target for the sowing of soybean has been fixed at 57.70 lakh hectare and to date, 56.42 lakh hectare has been sown. Apart from this, the target of crops like groundnut, sesame, cotton has also been almost achieved.

Source: Nai Dunia

NABARD to provide Rs. 5000 crore loan to farmers for Kharif farming

19/07/2020 Monday July 20th, 2020

Different financial institutions keep coming up to provide loans to farmers. In this series, loans will be provided to the farmers of the entire country for the cultivation of Kharif crops by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. NABARD has sanctioned a large fund of Rs 5000 crores for this loan.

This loan of 5000 thousand crore rupees will be provided to farmers across the country through Cooperative Bank, Grameen Bank, Micro Financing Institution, and NBFC. Significantly, NABARD has recently celebrated its 59th anniversary. Chief General Manager of the institute Subrata Mandal said these things at a function organized on this occasion.

Subrata Mandal said that “the lockdown has been prohibited on a collection of installments from borrowers for six months. This will provide relief to the farmers. In order to ensure that the farmers do not have cash for farming in the Kharif season, NABARD has 5000 thousand crores has been sanctioned. This amount will be disbursed through various financial institutions in the form of loans to farmers across the country.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Heavy rains may occur in these states, know weather forecast for next 24 hours

18/07/2020

Take precautions related to agriculture during the weather changes

Monsoon has become active in most of the states of the country and its effect is also visible. Mumbai and Gujarat have received heavy rainfall for the last few hours. Along with this, many areas of Kerala are also receiving continuous rains. In Assam, a flood situation has been created due to rain.

The axis of Monsoon trough currently extends to the northern parts of the Bay of Bengal via Faludi, Ajmer, Umaria, Ambikapur, Jamshedpur and Digha. A cyclonic circulation is also seen over interior parts of Madhya Pradesh.

According to the Meteorological Department, moderate to heavy rain in coastal Karnataka, Kerala and sub-Himalayan West Bengal over the next 24 hours. Light to moderate rain in some areas of Konkan Goa, Uttarakhand, Terai regions of Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and North Coastal Andhra Pradesh. Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Uttar Pradesh, North Bihar, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, South and South-Western Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, South-Eastern Rajasthan, Telangana, Punjab, Haryana and parts of Delhi light to moderate rains may occur.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Water will be delivered to every inch of farmers’ land, CM Shivraj announced

17/07/2020

The most important requirement of farmers for improved farming is better irrigation. Keeping this need in mind, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan has said that “we will make effective efforts to provide water to every inch of the land of farmers in the state”.

The Chief Minister said during this time that “special work has been done to increase irrigation potentials in Madhya Pradesh. In the last years, we have increased the irrigation potential in the state from 7.5 lakh hectare to 42 lakh hectare, in which NABARD has a significant contribution.” He said that in the coming time irrigation arrangements will be made for every inch of the land of farmers.

Actually, the Chief Minister said these things through video conferencing in the program organized on the 39th foundation day of NABARD. Members of Women self-help groups of several districts of Madhya Pradesh and representatives of Farmers Producer Association and many farmers were involved in this program.

The Chief Minister said during this time that “it is a matter of great pleasure that lift irrigation of Rs 1425 crore has been approved by NABARD for Madhya Pradesh today. Along with this, a loan of 4 thousand crores has been sanctioned for other projects. I express my heartfelt gratitude to the entire team of NABARD.

Source: Bhaskar

Grant will be given in the field of food processing, farmers’ income will increase

16/07/2020

The government seems to be cautious about the construction of units associated with food processing and preservation capacity and the modernization of already built units. This is the reason that the government has decided to give 35% of the cost of grants in this area. This grant will be given for construction up to a maximum of 5 crores.

The scheme includes processing of fruits and vegetables, milk, meat/poultry/fish, breakfast cereals/snacks/bakeries, cereals/pulses, oils, etc.

The purpose of this grant is to develop processing and preservation capabilities in the country and in addition to modernizing and expanding the existing food processing units.

Source: Krishi Alert

From this date, the sixth installment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana will start.

15/07/2020

The next installment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme is coming soon. This installment will start reaching the bank accounts of the farmers after two weeks. Under this scheme, the central government directly deposits 6000 rupees annually in the account of farmers. This amount of Rs 6000 is sent to the farmers’ accounts in three installments. The government is going to put the next installment of this amount in the farmers’ accounts from August 1.

Significantly, the Central Government started the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana on 24 February 2019. However, the scheme came into effect from 1 December 2018.

So far 5 installments of Rs 2000 have been sent to the bank accounts of the farmers under this scheme and the sixth installment of the farmers’ bank accounts will also start reaching from August 1.

Source: Live Hindustan