The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Amidst the gloomy scenario of agriculture sector reporting a negative growth of 1.8% due to severe drought, the State Budget for 2024-25 has announced a slew of innovative schemes for agricultural development, including a scheme titled Karnataka Raitha Samruddhi Yojane for promoting integrated and sustainable farming for boosting farm incomes. 

Condemning the police action on the protesting farmers at the Shambhu border, the Congress urged the Narendra Modi government to fulfil its promises

Brussels is ditching green measures as EU leaders panic over rural protests, upcoming elections and the threat of the far right, says Paul Taylor, of the Friends of Europe thinktank

The farmers' leaders, who held talks with the union ministers for more than five hours on Thursday night, have expressed their concerns over actions by the forces on the agitating cultivators and said that they do not seek 'confrontation but a peaceful solution'. Read further on Dynamite News:

Farmers and agriculture workers protest in Delhi, demanding a legally guaranteed minimum support price and other reforms.

Readers’ mail to The Hindu’s Letters to The Editor

Organisers call for ‘national effort’ to protest against low supermarket prices and cheap imports from post-Brexit deals

Small farms and Black farmers are going out of business, while corporate-controlled farms are booming, raking in subsidies

The General Secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher on Thursday alleged that police were using weapons used by the military against the agitating farmers. Read further on Dynamite News:

Lawmakers in the United States are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to abandon a rule that would require farms to report manure emissions.

The farm sector needs a new model of public support as it cannot be left to the mercy of the market