Tag: Agriculture

Prime Minister’s address at Natural Farming Conclave

On the occasion of 75th year of independence, the country has started working on various such goals, which will become the basis for major changes in the times to come. During the ‘Amritkaal’, the foundation of progress of the country is that spirit of everyone's effort which is leading our development journey. The leadership of … Continue reading Prime Minister’s address at Natural Farming Conclave

Digitisation of Agriculture Sector in the Country

Government has taken various initiatives/steps to enable digitalisation of agricultural sector in the country and to promote agri-tech business, which are given below: Government has finalized an India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture (IDEA) framework which would lay down the architecture for the federated farmers’ database is being built by taking the publicly available data as … Continue reading Digitisation of Agriculture Sector in the Country

eNAM-National Agriculture Market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twl4u002du002dEiYSM The NAM Portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals & prices, buy & sell trade offers, provision to respond to trade offers, among other services. While material flow (agriculture produce) continue to happen through mandis, an online market reduces transaction costs and information asymmetry.

ESSAY:MAINS’19 – AGRICULTURE.

Over the last year, the topic of 'agriculture' has been in news for various reasons. Farmers protest (in Mumbai and Delhi) and the sad suicides by a number of farmers point out towards the glaring issues that the farming community has been facing. Moreover, the government has also taken a number of steps to address … Continue reading ESSAY:MAINS’19 – AGRICULTURE.

AGRICULTURE SERIES – PART V

This article is the fifth part of the ‘Agriculture’ series of articles. Read Part IV here. ‘Agriculture’ is a hot topic for UPSC. Questions from this topic can be expected in the essay paper or any other general studies paper. Therefore, in order to cover various aspects and dimensions of this topic we bring to you … Continue reading AGRICULTURE SERIES – PART V

AGRICULTURE SERIES – PART IV

This article is the fourth part of the ‘Agriculture’ series of articles. Read Part III here. ‘Agriculture’ is a hot topic for UPSC. Questions from this topic can be expected in the essay paper or any other general studies paper. Therefore, in order to cover various aspects and dimensions of this topic we bring to you … Continue reading AGRICULTURE SERIES – PART IV

Women in Agriculture.

October 15 is observed, respectively, as International Day of Rural Women by the United Nations, and National Women’s Farmer’s Day (Rashtriya Mahila Kisan Diwas) in India. The Agriculture Census (2010-11) shows that out of an estimated 118.7 million cultivators, 30.3% were females. Similarly, out of an estimated 144.3 million agricultural labourers, 42.6% were females. Agriculture … Continue reading Women in Agriculture.

AGRICULTURE SERIES – PART III

This article is the third part of the ‘Agriculture’ series of articles. Read Part II here. ‘Agriculture’ is a hot topic for UPSC. Questions from this topic can be expected in the essay paper or any other general studies paper. Therefore, in order to cover various aspects and dimensions of this topic we bring to you … Continue reading AGRICULTURE SERIES – PART III

Agriculture Series – Part II

This article is the second part of the ‘Agriculture’ series of articles. Read Part I here. ‘Agriculture’ is a hot topic for UPSC. Questions from this topic can be expected in the essay paper or any other general studies paper. Therefore, in order to cover various aspects and dimensions of this topic we bring to … Continue reading Agriculture Series – Part II