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Agricultural economist and former chairman of Karnataka Agriculture Prices Commission (KAPC), T.N. Prakash Kammaradi, has suggested to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to procure ragi and jowar from local farmers to be given as substitute to additional quantum of rice in the PDS instead of procuring rice from other States. 

ZBNF would go a long way in drastically cutting down production cost and ending the vicious debt cycle of desperate small and marginal farmers, who now felt that farming was unviable, he said.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that around 1.5 lakh tonnes of rice was available with Chhattisgarh which Karnataka could buy for its Anna Bhagya scheme, but the transportation cost would be high.

Gold Coast cane grower Larry Spann was fixing farm machinery when he felt the intense burn of a fire ant bite. That could soon be very common

The global food system is broken. Largely dominated by multinational corporations, it enables and encourages unsustainable and unhealthy production and consumption patterns and generates enormous waste across all stages of production and distribution.

The crushing operations at the State-owned Mysore Sugar Company or Mysugar factory got off to a start in Mandya on Friday with Minister in-charge of Mandya district N. Cheluvarayaswamy and Sugar Minister Shivananda Patil inaugurating the process

Farmers’ associations have urged the State government to buy foodgrains directly from farmers and distribute them locally. This, they say, would address several issues like making good the scarcity of foodgrain for the Anna Bhagya scheme, after the Union government’s refusal to allot additional foodgrains, provide assured market to farmers…

Paddy procurement of 64.5L tonnes in 2022-23 rabi second highest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his video message to G-20 Agriculture Ministers meet urges them to realilse they shoulder the responsibility of future of humanity