Monday, 4 July, 2022
TopicRabi crops

Topic: Rabi crops

Punjab isn’t the only reason for excessive kharif procurement. Just look at Telangana numbers

Siraj Hussain -
India's excessive rice production will continue. Famers need incentive to give up the crop.

Usual laggard Bihar stuns with record wheat procurement this time, UP performs well too

Samyak Pandey -
Record-breaking wheat procurement by states like Bihar and UP, among others, has forced the central government to revise the wheat procurement target.

Ensure direct online payment to farmers for rabi crop, Piyush Goyal writes to Punjab CM

Samyak Pandey -
The Centre has made online direct payment to farmers mandatory for the upcoming Rabi wheat procurement season.

Govt increases minimum support price for 6 rabi crops, MSP of wheat hiked by Rs 50

PTI -
Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said govt had always maintained MSP will continue as against a 'false propaganda' spread by Opposition parties.

Kharif crop expected to be hit as excessive monsoon rain floods fields, sparks pest attacks

Samyak Pandey -
The excess rainfall is likely to damage crops such as soybean, onion, urad and moong in major production states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka.

Rabi procurement picks up amid lockdown, 4 states buy wheat despite labour shortage

Samyak Pandey -
Rabi season contributes nearly 50% of the food grain production in India. Procurement target of 40.7 million tonnes has been set for this season.

Coronavirus pandemic is ominous news for India’s rabi crops and farm-to-food chain

Mekhala Krishnamurthy -
During the coronavirus crisis, income support platforms must be utilised by both state and the Centre. Social distancing should be a norm in wheat procurement mandis.

Heavy damage to rabi crops after unseasonal March rainfall, hailstorm in North India

Samyak Pandey -
India registered an over 80 per cent increase in rainfall in the first two weeks of March, with Punjab, Haryana, UP and Rajasthan bearing the maximum damage.

BJP, Shiv Sena are busy playing power games, no one cares about Maharashtra’s farm crisis

Haima Deshpande -
Experts have pointed out that Maharashtra has seen two major calamities this year — drought & floods — impacting farmers severly.

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Attendees pose for a group photo at the 48th G7 Summit on 26 June | PTI

G7 infra plan a lifeline developing nations can’t ignore but first crack this code, like BRI

Shibani Mehta -
Silk roads are getting bumpier but Beijing will maximise its pursuit of global leadership as long as it perceives that Washington seeks to deny it any.
Home Minister Amit Shah waves to the supporters during the inauguration of the Chandlodiya-Khodiyar Railway under-pass at Chandlodiya railway station in Ahmedabad, on 2 July 2022 | ANI photo

Not national security or politics, Amit Shah has a new obsession—the ‘sahakari kshetra’

File photo of Chinese president Xi Jinping | Bloomberg

Chinese leadership touring ‘democratic’ Hong Kong, Pakistan. There’s a message for mainland

Economy

Illustration by Soham Sen

Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet

Sayantan Bera -
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.

Defence

Army personnel give military honours to the soldiers of Territorial Army's infantry 107 battalion who lost their lives in the Manipur Landslide, 2 July 2022, Siliguri | Credits: ANI Photo/ ANI Pic Service

A look at the Territorial Army — The Indian military’s task force hit by the Manipur landslide

Suchet Vir Singh -
The Territorial Army, a part-time military organisation for Indians who may have other jobs, is essentially a volunteer force that can be quickly mobilised in the defence of a state.

National Interest

Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest

Shekhar Gupta -
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.

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