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How is inter-cropping beneficial to farmers?

09/02/2021 Wednesday February 10th, 2021

How is inter-cropping beneficial o farmers?

Inter-cropping maintains the diversity and stability of fields.
It reduces the use of chemical/fertilizer.
It helps in Weed suppression and reduces the chances of diseases and insect attacks.
In inter-cropping, Vegetable crops give high production in short duration.

What is the situation of food storage in the country

01/04/2020

In this difficult time of lock-down in the country, declared for 21 days to avoid the Corona virus, the chairman of the Food Corporation of India told that there are currently plenty of wheat, pulses, oil and sugar in government warehouses in the country.
The country has sufficient food stocks, the existing stock can be supplied to the needy for 18 months.
This year, a record production of 291.10 lakh tonnes of food grains has been estimated in the country, which was possible due to hard working farmers.
Therefore, in this calamity, Gramophone expresses gratitude to all the farmers.

Crops in damaged in MP due to rain and hailstorm, CM ensured for help

01/04/2020

Nearly 20 districts of Madhya Pradesh received heavy rain with hailstorms in the last 24 hours. This rain caused heavy damage to crops of various regions of the state. Due to which, millions of farmers had suffered a huge loss in their crops.

On one hand, farmers were facing problems due to the ongoing nationwide lock-down to prevent infection of the coronavirus, while on the other hand, the hailstorm is now causing more problems to the farmers.

However, in this time of trouble, the Madhya Pradesh government had assured the farmers that govt. will help them to cope with this situation. Seeing this hailstorm, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has extended a helping hand towards the farmer brothers. In his recent tweet, CM Shivraj told farmers to stop worrying.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan wrote in his tweet that “My farmer brothers, I heard about the news of heavy rains with hailstorms in various places of the state. I am constantly monitoring the situation. Don’t worry about crop damage. I am standing with you in every hour of crisis, and I will take you out of this one too”

Relief for farmers, Govt. extended the duration of short-term crop loan

31/03/2020

Many people are facing various problems due to the ongoing lock-down due to the Corona global epidemic. Our farmer brothers are also facing many problems due to this. In view of these problems, the Government of India has extended the date of payment of short-term crop loans taken by the farmers by one month.

The central government has decided to extend the repayment of short-term crop loans to farmers by 31 May 2020. It means that now the farmers can pay short-term crop loans till 31 May 2020 at the interest rate of only 4% per annum without any punitive interest.

The government launched FPO Scheme, 86 percent farmers will be benefited.

05/03/2020

There’s good news for Indian farmers as the Central Government has recently launched an enthusiastic programme to develop around 10,000 FPOs (Farmers Producers Organisations) throughout the nation. These FPO’s would be beneficial mostly for those small and marginal farmers, whose landholdings are less than one hectare. According to a media report, such farmers account for 86 per cent of total farmers in the country.

The FPOs (Farmers Producers Organisations) are member-based organisations. Which means that in an FPO, farmers will be the members. These organisations will include experts from various fields like agri-marketing, crop husbandry, value-addition & processing, and Information technology etc. so that they can help farmers on all issues. The Central government has allocated a fund of Rs 4,496 crore for this project. These FPOs are expected to be set up over a five-year period i.e. till 2024.

This project will provide small farmers with a platform to resolve various challenges in the process of farming. While launching the scheme on Saturday (29 February), the Prime minister himself had said that these FPOs will turn the farmers into businessmen.