farmers

Central government announces to increase subsidy rates on fertilizers for farmers by Rs 700 due to increase in global prices. The prices of phosphoric acid, ammonia and other items necessary for making fertilizers have spurred up in the…

ICICI Bank Becomes 1st To Use Satellite Data For Giving Loans: Eligibility, Rules, & More The ICICI Bank will now be employing data obtained from satellite for credit assessment of farmers. This makes the bank the first one ever…

India has reached new levels today in the economy field, and this is something to be very proud of! Indian economy has bagged the title of ‘Fastest Growing Economy’ and this is not the first time - although it is a tad bit lower than what…

Maharashtra government recently removed the distribution of fresh agricultural produce from the ambit of the Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMC) and the traders working with APMC are enraged. The 302 APMCs operating in the…

When 58% of Indians are dependent on agriculture for their livelihood, it is very important to include them in the Digital India movement for maximum effect of technology. With the launch of National Agriculture Market or eNAM, PM…

Imagine a digital marketplace for farmers, using which any farmer in any corner of the country can instantly sell their agri-products to any buyer, there by controlling the price and profits. This is no more a fiction, as PM Modi is…

The Internet has benefitted everyone from rich to poor. Guess who are the latest benefiters of it! The farmers. With the help of India's postal department, farmers will now be able to sell paddy, cotton, pulses or any other farm…

Cloning has for long been there in the west in some way or the other whether for humans or for crops. The result has been a large variety of genetically modified foods (GM Foods) which have flooded the Western market over the years.…

62% of Gujarat's 60 million population live in villages. If that is the case villages should be able to feed that population to avoid mass migration to the cities. When diamond polishing industry of Surat took hit in the global recession,…