Abhilaksh Likhi, Additional Secretary in the Union Agriculture Ministry, told state officials to chalk out a detailed plan while attending a farm demonstration on crop residue management at Rangian village in Kharar tehsil of SAS Nagar district in Punjab, an official statement said.
According to the data from the ‘Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modelling from Space’, not a single stubble burning incident has taken place in the last six days in Punjab.
Besides delaying harvesting of crops, the untimely rain will not only affect the yield but also quality of crop, they said.
They, however, said farmers, at the individual level, have been hit the hardest by the highly erratic monsoon and many have not yet received help from state governments.
The process of registering farmers is underway and it will continue till October 31, the chief minister said.
The export policy of broken rice has been amended through a notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) dated September 8, 2022.
However, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey asserted that the country will have surplus production in rice.
During the virtual meeting on Wednesday, the Union minister also asked the States to complete data verification and update it at the earliest.
To put it into context, the country’s total wheat output rose from 98.5 lakh tonne in the early 1960s to 1,068.4 lakh tonne in 2021-22, the centre said on Wednesday through a data chart.
The increase in interest subvention will ensure the sustainability of credit flow in the agriculture sector as well as the financial health and viability of the lending institutions.
Roads leading to Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Nakodar were also blocked by parking tractors, leading to traffic snarls.
Quoting recent data, he said the state had received 41 per cent less than normal rains till July 31 following which more than 90 per cent of farmers are suffering from drought-like conditions.
As per the data of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Uttar Pradesh received only 170 millimetre (mm) rainfall between June 1 and July 29, which is 50 per cent less than the normal rainfall of 342.8 mm.
The Telangana government under the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has increased its power installed capacity to 17,234 MW from 7778 MW in 2014 when the state was formed.
With monsoon rains giving the state the miss during the peak sowing season, the sowing of paddy is less than ten percent so far, they said.
The agriculture ministry on Thursday released its second advance estimates (2021-22) of area and production of horticultural crops.
In a conversation with ANI, he also said that the process of registrations will start on July 18.
Farmers are worried as the overall coverage of Kharif crops is only 5.32 percent against the total target of 28.27 lakh hectares of land till Wednesday.
The prices of the pulpy fruit are also expected to soar this summer season due to low production, they said.
