India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Every year, Government fixes Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for 22 mandated agricultural crops for the country as a whole, based on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP), after considering the views of the State Governments and Central Ministries/Departments concerned. The Government has implemented digital payment system for MSP procurement. Presently, no scheme for loan waiver i...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: As informed by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), India currently hosts three Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): the Koraput region in Odisha, the Kuttanad farming system in Kerala, and the Saffron Heritage of Kashmir. The Koraput region is renowned for its subsistence paddy cultivation, predominantly on highland slopes, and is home to a vast diversity of paddy landraces and farmer-develope...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) July 2023 - June 2024, conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), 46.1% of the workforce in India is employed in the agriculture sector. Further, as per the National Accounts Statistics 2025, this sector contributed approximately 17.8 per cent of the country's GDP for FY 2023-24. The Go...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: There is no specific data indicating that due to disasters like climate change, heat, heatwave and locusts, the infestation of pests and incidence of diseases in crops like cotton and Moong have increased to 33% or more causing huge economic loss to the farmers. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is implementing a project namely National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) that studies the ...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Government has undertaken a mid-term evaluation of Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) scheme. Agro Economic Research Centre (AERC), Pune evaluated the scheme's progress and performance, gather beneficiary feedback, and suggest improvements in December 2023. The evaluation highlighted positive impact of the scheme in terms of increase in farmers' income, increase in agriculture storage capacity, growth of post-ha...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Every year, The Government fixes Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for 22 mandated agricultural crops including 14 kharif crops for the country as a whole based on the recommendations of Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP), after considering the views of State Governments and Central Ministries/Departments concerned. While recommending MSPs, CACP considers important factors like cost of production, overall de...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: A Claims & Objections received from Political Parties1 w.r.t. Draft Roll Table Omitted (The document can be viewed at https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2157814 ) Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication....
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Over the past six months, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken 28 significant initiatives aimed at streamlining and improving the electoral process. Engagement with all Stakeholders EROs, DEOs and CEOs have held all-party meetings nationwide - a total of 4,719 all-party meetings were conducted including 40 meetings by CEOs, 800 by DEOs, and 3879 by EROs engaging over 28,000 representatives of various pol...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Ayush was held in New Delhi today. Shri Prataprao Jadhav, Union Minister of State (I/C) of the Ministry of Ayush chaired the meeting. Members of Parliament of the Committee from various political parties of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha attended in the meeting. Among the members of Parliamentary Consultative Committee, Dr Swami Sachidanand Hari Sa...
India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) under the Ministry of Ayush, in collaboration with the World Health Organization-South-East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO) organized a four-day "Regional Workshop on WHO Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for Herbal Medicines". The workshop is being held in Mumbai from 19-22 August 2025 in RRAP- Central Ayurveda Research Institute (RRAP-CARI). The worksho...