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 "Sanjeeb Mukherjee")
Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
The drop in mustard acreage could be attributed to low price realisation by oilseed farmers, especially those growing soybean and groundnut in the kharif season
"In the core cold there is lower to higher probability of both higher maximum and minimum temperatures in the next three months," IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said
Lays foundation for even better performance in coming quarters, opine experts
Awasthi said that CM Adityanath's dream is to make UP the most prosperous state of the country with its GSDP ahead of Maharashtra or any other
Over the next few years, the state aims to increase value of farm exports from Rs 20,000 crore to Rs 50,000 crore by boosting productivity and food processing
Maharashtra and Gujarat are among the states where a significant portion of the sugar production is through cooperatives
Maintaining growth rate at 5-6 per cent must to achieve goal, says report
The slowdown in the rate of growth of milk production from a healthy 5-6 per cent just a few years back has caused some concern within a section of the industry who want deeper analysis of the problem
The main culprit for the degradation of the nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium ratio is the overuse of urea as a main fertiliser because of its low price, which has been static for almost a decade
He further said India sees a huge role for cooperatives in its future growth and in the last 10 years the country has worked to transform the entire ecosystem related to cooperatives
In 2019-20, the Central government initiated a programme on natural farming titled Bhartiya Prakratik Krishi Paddhati
As farmers in North India, once again threaten another stir in demand of legal MSP, it remains to be seen how the Maharashtra poll results impact their agitation
To intensify agitation, start fast unto death from Nov 26, demanding legal MSP
The Federation is introducing its dairy products at a discount to key competitors' products in a bid to gain a foothold in the new market
So far, under the scheme, around 29.5 million houses have been sanctioned, out of which around 27 million have already been constructed
A mapping of India's soil health has shown that almost 90 per cent of the land is deficient in nitrogen and phosphorus, and 50 per cent in potassium
When scaled to the total National Food Security Act beneficiary population of 806 million, the annual household consumption exceeds 85.56 million tones/mt
According to ICAR scientists, stubble burning leads to the complete loss of nitrogen, while phosphorus is only slightly recoverable
With a high differential in pricing vis-a-vis normal plastics, and backed by a generous Uttar Pradesh policy, sugar producers eye new opportunities in the climate-friendly product
Despite the delayed monsoon, residual soil moisture is expected to be good
