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Awareness programmes to be organised for 30,000 village heads across the country

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the online training programme for master trainers on natural farming, organised by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad. 

Speaking on the occasion, Tomar said that MANAGE has been entrusted with the task of organising 750 awareness programmes for 30,000 village heads in the country from April to August as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. 

In the coming days, trained master trainers will organize 750 awareness programmes for 30,000 village heads across the country and help in taking forward the initiative of natural farming in their respective states. 4.09 lakh hectare area is covered under natural farming. 

The Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Kailash Choudhary and Shobha Karandlaje were also present on the occasion. Manoj Ahuja, Joint Secretary, Priya Ranjan and Director General, MANAGE Dr P Chandrashekhar also addressed the session. Online training will be given by MANAGE to 215 master trainers on the subject of introduction principle and practice of natural farming, which will be completed before August 15.

Awareness programmes to be organised for 30,000

Agro Universities, AgroPolicy

According to Narendra Singh Tomar, the new building will help in advancing the research on the cashew crop

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare virtually inaugurated the Silver Jubilee Building of the ICAR-Directorate of Cashew Research, Puttur, Karnataka.

Tomar underlined the cultivation of cashew in around 11.25 Lakh ha area having an annual production of 7 lakh tonnes. He stated that the area under cashew in the country is the second-largest in the world. Tomar accentuated that India is the second-largest country in the production of raw cashew nuts in the world. Highlighting the ever-increasing consumption of cashew in the country, he also stressed the need for setting a goal to fill up the gap between its production and consumption. Adopt the ways for strategic planning to enhance the export of cashew instead of its import was also emphasised by Tomar.

“There is a need to enhance the cashew’s production and its productivity by bringing more area under the cashew cultivation,” stressed Tomar. He urged exploring the possible suitable areas for its expansion. The release of 26 varieties, the development of Virtual Software and the Mobile App ‘Kaju India’ by the ICAR-DCR, Puttur for apprising the farmers about the latest developed varieties and technologies were underlined by the Union Minister. The large scale employment opportunities generated by cashew processing, which involves around 95 per cent of farmers along with the cashew processing units providing employment to about 15 Lakh people were highlighted by Tomar.

The Union Minister regarded the New Silver Jubilee Building as a new dimension in the council’s vision of empowering and benefiting the agricultural community which will help in advancing the research on the cashew crop. He stated about the council’s efforts of enabling the farmers to connect with it through technological advancements. This, he said, is beneficial to a large extent for the farmers.

According to Narendra Singh Tomar, the new

Agro Universities, AgroPolicy, Environment, Sustainability

The 50th milestone was framed by the challenges and opportunities facing the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

The 50th-anniversary celebrations build upon the inauguration of the occasion by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar among other dignitaries, who visited the Institute’s global headquarters in early February.

The official celebration was marked by a distinguished gathering of global agricultural institutions and financing leaders to members of the diplomatic corps, ICRISAT’s Governing Board, the Director-General Dr Jacqueline Hughes and staff from across India and Africa.

The 50th milestone was framed by the challenges and opportunities facing the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, with a series of roundtable discussions on ‘Partnerships and Funding for Sustainable Agriculture in the Drylands’.

ICRISAT Director General Dr Jacqueline Hughes said that while the Institute’s 50th anniversary was an opportunity to reflect on the organisation’s illustrious history, it was also a defining moment to coalesce new and innovative approaches to funding scientific innovation to address the challenges facing dryland agri-food systems.

“While the world grapples with evolving climate change, environmental degradation and geo-political shifts there tragically remains one constant for dryland farming communities, and that is food insecurity and hunger,” said Dr Hughes.

“With our deep expertise in dryland farming and recent advances in research, ICRISAT will continue to serve as a global research and thought leader to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition, environmental degradation in the semi-arid tropics while making farming profitable.

“We will also augment our scientific advances by working to influence good public policy with a focus on gender and social inclusion as but some cross-cutting themes especially relevant to developing a more equitable and sustainable agricultural sector.

“Our strength has been built upon the diversity of our public and private sector partnerships and our inspiration remains the 2.1 billion people who call the drylands home.

“ICRISAT is well-positioned to now build upon its past successes as an autonomous, independent organisation which will be further strengthened by a deepening of our South-South collaboration.

“Our 50th Anniversary celebrations will segue the Institute into the International Year of Millets in 2023 in which ICRISAT will be a key actor. As a speciality crop of the Institute, we look forward to collaborating with partners to enhance nutritional security in India and Africa,” said Dr Hughes.

The 50th milestone was framed by the

AgroPolicy, Agrotech, Dairy, Horticulture, R&D

Ministers discussed ways to improve the agri sector and the role being played by ICAR

The 93rd Annual General Meeting of the ICAR Society was recently organised at the National Agricultural Science Centre Complex, New Delhi.

Delivering his presidential address, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar underlined the establishment of the ICAR in 1929. The pivotal role played by the Council through its research and technology development in creating the food and nutritional security in the country with the untiring cooperation of farmers and scientists over the years was also highlighted by the minister. Tomar underlined the record production of the food grains and horticultural products in the country that has made us self-sufficient to meet not only the domestic demands enabled to supply the same to the different countries as well.

Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying urged for recognising the local techniques of the small farmers. The encouragement of the cheese made from Banshi Gir Cow’s Milk for export was also stressed by the Union Minister. Rupala suggested the ICAR get benefitted from the upcoming three events – G20 Conference, International Dairy Programme and Jamnagar getting International recognition in Ayurveda.

Kailash Choudhary, Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare urged for working in pace with the visions of the Prime Minister. He said that there is a scope for working in the field of horticulture. Mentioning a number of plants that are being imported, the minister urged for developing their varieties in the country itself.

Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog stated that in the current Financial Year, India’s Agricultural exports have crossed $50 billion. He said that there has been an increase of about 22 per cent in a single Year.

Dr Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR) underlined the development of 389 new varieties by the ICAR during the last Year. The DG mentioned the focus on crops and pulses varieties. Dr Mohapatra stated that the new research in food crops and horticultural arenas have benefited the country to a large extent.

Raghavji Patel, Cabinet Minister, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Cow Breeding, Government of Gujarat; Virender Kanwar, Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries, Government of Himachal Pradesh; Tage Taki, Minister Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture & Fisheries, Government of Arunachal Pradesh were among the Guests of Honor during the occasion.

The Members of ICAR Society; Members of ICAR Governing Body along with Sanjay Garg, Additional Secretary (DARE) & Secretary (ICAR); Sanjiv Kumar, Financial Advisor (DARE) and Senior Officials & Scientists of ICAR were also present during the occasion.

The ministers released the various ICAR Publications and Products during the occasion.

Ministers discussed ways to improve the agri

Acts & Schemes – Centre, AgroPolicy

Discussions were held on various aspects of Kisan Credit Card Scheme for improvement and better implementation

A meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare was recently held. The committee discussed various aspects of the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme for improvement and better implementation.

Addressing the committee, Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that the government is running a campaign for saturation of KCC to farmers to cover all leftover PM KISAN beneficiaries. He said that all the administrative charges up to Rs 3 lakh of short term loans i.e processing fee, inspection fee, ledger, folio charges etc have been waived off so that the maximum number of farmers can get the loan at a cheaper rate through the Interest Subvention Scheme.

The minister also told the committee members that the form for KCC has been simplified and directions have been sent to banks to issue KCC within 14 days of receipt of the complete application form. As a result of sustained and concerted efforts by banks and other stakeholders in the direction of providing access to concessional credit to farmers, a major milestone has been achieved by covering around 2.94 crore farmers under the KCC scheme with the sanctioned credit limit of Rs 3.22 lakh crore as on March 4, 2022, the minister added.

A presentation on details of KCC scheme was given by Joint Secretary Ritesh Chauhan. The committee members raised their concerns and gave suggestions for further improvement of the scheme. Tomar thanked the committee members for their valuable suggestions and assured them that the Ministry will look into each suggestion and will come out with favourable solutions for the betterment of farmers. He also requested members to put their efforts into creating awareness about KCC among the farmer community in their respective constituencies.

Discussions were held on various aspects of

Agro chems – Fertilizers, AgroPolicy, Seeds, Sustainability, Water

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare inaugurates the fair

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare inaugurated the Farmers’ Fair organised by the Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh at the Santha Village of Morena District, Madhya Pradesh today. The fair was organised under the Farmer FIRST Programme Project.

The Union Minister urged the small and marginal farmers for making the Farmers’ Producers’ Organizations (FPOs) that can revolutionise the agriculture sector of the country. Tomar expressed his concerns on the major irrigation water-related problems like majority of farmers in Chambal Region use flood-irrigation resulting in low yield, quality of produce, decreasing water table and soil quality. The adaptation of the improved methods of irrigation through border strip, furrow, pressure irrigation with fertigation for improving the yield, income and water productivity was stressed in the Union Minister’s address.

Tomar accentuated on reducing the cost of production with direct seeding, bed planting, water management technologies, stopping the burning of farm residue and utilising for soil water storage and improving the soil quality and safer environment.

Prof Surapaneni Koteshwara Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Gwalior emphasised promoting the integrated farming system, protected cultivation, vegetable production, processing and value-addition and agro-based enterprises for higher profit. Prof Rao also urged for developing the aggregation modules for the farmers on commodity and community-based group farming linked with the Farmers’ Producers’ Organizations that can help in increasing the farmers’ prosperity.

More than 1,000 farmers, rural youths, senior officials and the various dignitaries attended the fair.

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture

Agro Universities, Agrotech

The Post Graduate School of this institute awarded degrees to 284 students, which includes eight foreign students

The 60th convocation of IARI, New Delhi was organised in the Bharat Ratna Shri C Subramanium Hall of NASC. The chief guest of the convocation, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar applauded the significant contributions made by the institute for ensuring food and nutritional security through the development of superior varieties and technologies. He exhorted the students for entrepreneurship development and appealed for taking up farming as a profession.

Tomar also appreciated the efforts of the institute for the development of new varieties and technology in the field of agriculture. He highlighted the government priorities in the field of agricultural research and farmers’ welfare. He highlighted implementing the use of drone technology for the benefit of farmers and employment generation for various stakeholders.

Kailash Chaudhary, Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare was the guest of Honour during the event. Dr Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary DARE and Director General, ICAR, Dr AK Singh, Vice Chancellor and Director, ICAR-IARI and Dr Rashmi Aggarwal, Dean and Joint Director (Education) also graced the occasion. The Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour handed over the awards and the degrees to the recipients. The Post Graduate School of this institute awarded degrees to 284 students, which includes eight foreign students.

The Post Graduate School of this institute

AgroPolicy, Agrotech, Interaction

As per the data by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), exports of agricultural and processed food products under Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) basket rose to $20,674 million (Rs 153,050 crore) during 2020-21, from $17,321 million (Rs 83,484 crore) in 2011-12. Non-Basmati Rice has emerged as India’s top export item among the many agricultural and processed food product exports under APEDA basket, contributing close to one fourth of the total exports in 2020-21. On the other side, the food grain export industry is struggling with issues such as rejection of food grain consignments by 27 European countries due to pesticide residue. Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India shares his views on new technologies and government’s strategies to mitigate various issues of the agriculture sector with AgroSpectrum

Recently, the government has released standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the use of drones in the farm sector, including for spraying pesticides as well as other soil and crop nutrients. What is the future strategy of the government about usage of drone technology in agri-allied industry? 

The Government of India is committed to the use of technology in the agriculture sector. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are trying to use the technology in various sub-sectors of agriculture. The Centre has transferred more than Rs 1,60,000 crore in the accounts of 11.5 crore farmers under the PM Kisan Samman scheme by using digital technology.

Last year India faced severe locust attacks in many states. With the help of helicopters, we tried to spray the pesticides on damaged crops but we realised that use of drone technology will definitely resolve this issue. After seeking essential permissions from the civil aviation ministry and other concerned ministries, we are ready to use drone technology for the agriculture sector.  

Under the Digital Agriculture Mission, we are planning to use drone technology for crop analysis, analysis of damaged crops due to natural calamities and also for agricultural research. We are also planning to use drone technology, for getting digital records of agricultural lands for farmers at one place. Farmers will not only get information about their loan status but also about the updated information of government schemes for the farmers. Government officials can also cross verify the information about the number of farmers who received the benefits of various schemes for farmers under Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM). Till date we have connected 4.5 crore farmers through DAM. We aimed to connect 6 crore farmers to DAM in the next five years.

Karnataka State Government has already submitted a project on ‘Use of drone technology for land records’ to the agriculture ministry. After completing all necessary discussions and obtaining permission from concerned ministries, we are planning to implement drone technology for land records in other states also.

How do you foresee the future of the agri industry in India in the next five years?

Centre is giving preference to agri industry in order to make agriculture and agri-allied industry more profitable. Centre has released various schemes to help farmers and agripreneurs in the last two years. Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) are playing a vital role in the growth of small-scale farmers. FPOs are helping farmers in processing their produce near farm gates. Government has started Kisan Rail with climate and temperature – controlled containers for perishable agri produce such as fruits to overcome the food loss in transportation.

Government has provided Rs 16 crore funds for interest subsidy for farmers. Infrastructure facilities such as warehousing have been developed in villages, so that farmers will get better prices for their produce. Centre has provided Rs 1 lakh crore fund for agri-infrastructure, Rs 15,000 crore for animal husbandry, Rs 20,000 crore for fish farming and Rs10,000 crore for agri-food processing industry. Besides this, Centre has also provided Rs 4,000 crore for herbal farming and Rs 5,000 crore for the beekeeping industry.

It has sanctioned various projects for the agriculture sector which will benefit the farmer at large level. Gradually, farmers are connecting to FPOs for better agri-inputs and better price for their produce. New generations of farmers will definitely take farming to a new level with the help of new technologies and innovations. The future of agriculture and agri-industry is bright as technology is making a difference in aspects of agriculture.

The government has announced that it is planning to issue globally valid certification to organic farmers so that they can take their products abroad. What steps will be taken by the Ministry of Agriculture for the growth of organic farmers?

Government is trying to focus on organic farming considering increasing demand for organic agri produce in the domestic and international market. We have made essential changes in the rules and regulations related to the organic farming certification process in order to make it transparent and less complicated. If needed we will decentralise the process of organic farming certification. We have identified the states such as Jammu & Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Ladakh, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim and Andaman Nicobar which have the tribal blocks and never used chemical fertilisers and pesticides till date for crops. We have also requested the state governments to analyse such areas where chemical fertilisers and pesticides have not been used for years and certify them as ‘Organic farming land’. So that we can announce such states as ‘Organic States’. We will arrange training sessions for scientific practices of organic farming for the farmers in these states in order to get better prices for their farm produce.

Recently, Basmati rice export consignments from Punjab and Haryana had been rejected by 27 European countries due to pesticide residue in crops. What measures is the agriculture ministry taking to mitigate this issue?

Indian farmers should follow the international quality standards for food crops if they want to make farming profitable. I think FPO is the biggest step to mitigate this issue. The Agriculture ministry has already started the process of making 10,000 FPOs across the country. Small-scale farmers should connect with FPOs for best quality agri-inputs and good farming practices. Farmers should also give preference to cash crops to get better prices in the market. FPOs will help the farmers in getting good quality agri-inputs, effective use of latest technologies and innovations in farming. Thus FPOs will help the farmers to maintain the quality of the farm produce as per international standards through the use of latest agri-technologies at moderate rates. Small–scale farmers need proper training on usage of chemical pesticides and fertilisers for maintaining the quality of farm produce. When farmers will come together in clusters under FPOs, it will be convenient and easy to conduct training sessions.

In this way, when farmers will be aware of good farming practices and ill effects of chemical fertilisers, pesticides on the quality of their farm produce, it definitely makes an impact on export of food crops. 

As per government’s Fourth Advance Estimates for 2020-21, total food grain production in the country is estimated at record 308.65 million tonnes which is higher by 11.14 million tonnes than the production of food grain during 2019-20. The production during 2020-21 is higher by 29.77 million tonnes than the previous five years’ (2015-16 to 2019-20) average production of food grains. In such a situation, what will be the strategy of the government to make food crop production more profitable?

The Agriculture ministry is trying to make food crop production more profitable in various ways. We are trying to coordinate with the Consumer Affairs Ministry, Commence Ministry and APEDA for better utilisation of surplus production. We will focus more on processing of food crops to increase the profitability of farmers.

What is the future strategy of the government about conducting field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in India?

It will be too early to comment on GM crop trials in India. In the future the government will definitely come up with the decision on GM crop trials. 

                                                                                                           Dipti Barve

                                                                                                    dipti.barve@mmactiv.com

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AgroPolicy, Logistics, Supply Chain, Trade

The train from Savda to Adarsh Nagar Delhi had 23 coaches in which 453 tonne of bananas were transported

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India flagged off the 1000th trip of Kisan Rail on Central Railway from Savda, Maharashtra to Adarsh Nagar, Delhi through weblink.

The train from Savda to Adarsh Nagar Delhi had 23 coaches in which 453 tonne of bananas were transported. So far, 3.45 lakh farm produce has been transported in 1000th Kisan Rail from Central Railway.

Tomar said transportation of perishables such as fruits and vegetables to markets at distant places at reasonable cost to get a better price through Kisan Rail is a scheme for the betterment of farmers.

Vaishnaw said Kisan Rail is an initiative that allows farmers to transport their agricultural produce to distant market places economically and quickly. He also mentioned with pride about the banana of Jalgaon which has got GI-Tag. He further congratulated the farmers of Jalgaon and appealed to come forward with suggestions, if any, for further improvement.

The train from Savda to Adarsh Nagar

AgroPolicy

The objective of the zaid conference is to review and assess the crop performance during the preceding crop seasons

Addressing the National Conference on Agriculture for Summer Campaign 2021-22 through video-conferencing, Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Kumar Tomar said that summer crops not only provide extra income but also create employment opportunities in between Rabi and Kharif for the farmers thereby increasing crop intensity. The government has taken new initiatives through various programmes for the cultivation of summer crops such as pulses, coarse cereals, nutri-cereals, and oilseeds. Though more than half of the cultivated area in the summer season is under pulses, oilseeds and nutri-cereals, the farmers with irrigation sources are growing rice and vegetables during the summer season. He highlighted that area under cultivation of zaid crops including rice has increased progressively 2.7 times from 29.71 lakh hectares in 2017-18 to 80.46 lakh hectares in 2020-21. 

The objective of the zaid conference is to review and assess the crop performance during the preceding crop seasons and fix crop-wise targets for the summer season in consultation with state governments. The minister assured full support to ensure the supply of critical inputs and facilitate the adoption of innovative technologies to enhance the production and productivity of the crops. The priority of the government is to increase the production of oilseeds and pulses where large imports are required. 

The minister also asked states to plan for their fertilisers needs and provide estimates to the centre so that the fertiliser department can provide sufficient fertilisers timely. He also suggested that states should increase the use of NPK and liquid urea and reduce the dependence on DAP fertilisers. 

Regarding training to the farmers, the minister asked Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) to jointly conduct the essential training for the small and marginal farmers so that new technology and knowledge reach the grassroots level. 

Kailash Choudhary, MoS for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare told the states that special focus is now given to increasing production of oilseeds and pulses and making the country self-reliant.

Addressing the States Secretary, the Department of Fertilisers said that adequate and timely availability of fertilisers would be ensured. He also gave the estimated availability of fertilisers for Kharif 2022. 

A presentation by Joint Secretary (Crops and Oil Seeds) highlighted the rainfall situation, region-wise live storage of water in major reservoirs, season-wise estimated area coverage under different crops, trend and area coverage under Zaid/summer, Existing support programmes for summer crops and State wise area projected for coverage under Zaid/summer crops 2022. 

During the conference ‘Working manual on Indian Seed Certification’ was released. Presentations on PM KISAN e-KYC and presentation on Farmers’ database were also made during the conference for the benefit of the states. 

The objective of the zaid conference is

AgroPolicy, Agrotech, Supply Chain

Discussions were held on horticulture, medicinal crops and natural farming

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar and Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), G Kishan Reddy recently hosted a virtual meeting to take stock of various schemes of the Government of India in the sector of the North Eastern Region (NER). Agriculture ministers of the North-Eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura discussed the issues and challenges they were facing in detail.

Union Minister of State for DoNER, BL Verma,. Ministers for Agriculture of all the eight North Eastern States accompanied by the Secretary, DoNER, Agriculture Secretaries from the NER states with senior officials also marked their presence.

Tomar in his speech quoted, “Our door is always open. I request all the state governments to come up with a proposal if you find any difficulty in any schemes related to the agriculture sector.” He said that about 9 lakh hectare land in the North East is well suited for oil palm production as it has the potential to benefit farmers at large. 

He also talked about horticulture and medicinal crops which are grown only in North-Eastern State. He said that Agriculture and Commerce Ministry are working together to tap such opportunities and to solve the logistic problems faced by the North Eastern States.

The minister urged the state governments to pay attention to natural farming.

Officials from Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Regions (MOVCDNER); National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm (NMEO-OP); Bamboo in North East Region and the mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) made presentations regarding various schemes.

Discussions were held on horticulture, medicinal crops

Agro Universities, AgroPolicy, Oilseeds

According to the union minister, North-Eastern States can be developed as a hub of organic farming along with natural farming

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare virtually inaugurated the New Built Administrative Building of the ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Zone – 6, Guwahati, Assam.

The Union Minister applauded the unparalleled roles played by the Krishi Vigyan Kendras in providing crop diversification and good quality seeds in the country. This has accelerated the progress of the country, he added. Tomar emphasised the need to adopt natural farming practices on a larger scale. The Union Minister outlined the vision of promoting the oil palms’ farming in the North-East states.

Kailash Choudhary, Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare regarded the inauguration of the New Administrative Building of ICAR-ATARI, Guwahati as a new dimension in the various progress made by the Council. The minister highlighted the aim to enhance the use of drones and nanotechnologies in the agricultural sector. The need to include the women farmers in the Farmers’ FIRST Programme was stressed by the minister. Choudhary accentuated on linking the country’s distant farmers with the Farmers’ Producers’ Organizations.

According to the union minister, North-Eastern States

Agrotech, Interaction

The four-day event will see a congregation of 400 exhibitors and farmers from in and around Vidarbha region. 

12th Agrovision, India’s Premier Agri Summit, was launched at Reshimbagh ground in Nagpur. The four-day event from December 24-27, 2021 is witnessing a congregation of farmers, policymakers, stakeholders, scientists from different parts of Maharashtra and adjoining states.
 
Present on the occasion were Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agriculture Minister, Nitin Gadkari, Chief patron Agrovision, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, the Guest of Honour Dr Ashwath Narayan CN, Minister for Electronics, IT, BT and S&T Higher Education, Skill Development Entrepreneurship and Livelihood, Government of Karnataka, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Former Minister of Energy, New & Renewable Energy, Govt of Maharashtra and Dr CD Mayee, Chairman-Advisory Council Agrovision, Ex-Chairman- ASRB (ICAR).

The event started with a lamp lighting ceremony by Tomar along with all the dignitaries. Ravi Boratkar, MD, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications, Publisher, MMA publications and Chairperson, Agrovision Foundation, while welcoming the guests talked about Agrovision’s journey so far and how farmers are continuing to be benefitted from the successive events held so far.

Agarwal in his speech talked about the PM’s vision of enhancing farmers’ income, creating farmer’s database and utilising post-harvest DPR. Gadkari talked about how ethanol from sugarcane is going to be the future fuel in agri pumps and the transport sector replacing petrol and diesel. He emphasised ideating knowledge, entrepreneurship, successful practice and coming out with solutions for the farmer community.
 
The theme for this year’s event is ‘Transforming Agriculture through Technology Innovations.’

On December 25, 2021, a conference will be organised on dairy, its opportunities in the Vidarbha region.

The four-day event will see a congregation

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An exhibition of farmers’ products was organised in the programme

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar virtually inaugurated the Kisan Bhawan and Beekeeper Conference at the Central Institute of Horticulture, Nagaland. Tomar said, “Honey-producing farmers should move forward in collaboration with the state government, the Central Government has stood with them shoulder to shoulder and step by step.”

In the programme organised under the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi, Tomar said that the climate of the North-East region is favourable for agriculture. The area is ideal for the cultivation of horticultural crops especially fruits and vegetables, flowers and spices. Keeping in view the interests of the small and marginal farmers of the North Eastern Region in horticulture, the Central Institute of Horticulture, Nagaland was established under the Central Sector Scheme of the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and this institute was established for the development of horticulture and upliftment of the farmers. The state is working well with the government, FPOs and other stakeholders. 

An exhibition of farmers’ products was organised in the programme. Mini kits were provided to the farmers for new experiments in farming. Products made by the trainee farmers were launched. Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shobha Karandlaje was the special guest at the function. Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal, Additional Secretary Abhilaksh Likhi and Vivek Agarwal, Agriculture and Horticulture Commissioner Dr SK Malhotra, Chairman of Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Protection Authority, Dr KV Prabhu, Secretary to Governor T Mhabemo Yanthan, Commissioner and Horticulture Secretary of Nagaland Annanla T Sato, Government, Horticulture Director Dr E Lotha, Board of Management (BOM) members Shiv Anjan Dalmiya and Diwakar Chachari and hundreds of bees parents and other farmers were present. Dr NK Patle, Director, Central Institute of Horticulture delivered the welcome address. 

An exhibition of farmers' products was organised