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According to the global agriculture intelligence network of USDA ‘market sources report that the first advance estimates may be on the higher side largely based on the provisional planting reports as the prolonged dry spell in the unirrigated areas is also likely to affect yield prospects’
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Farmers who fall into the money lending trap find themselves locked in a nationally known as white-knuckle gamble, juggling ever larger loans at usurious interest rates, in the hope that someday a bumper harvest will allow them to clear their debts, possibly a hope that let them live and let them practice again—so they can take up new ones
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India will be organising the World Food India 2017, from November 3 to November 5. Many nations like Japan, Denmark, Netherland and Italy are partnering with India during the aforesaid event. On the world food day, Indian minister of food processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal initiated the curtain raiser for the upcoming mega event. BW Businessworld has picked up the most important points the representatives of major partnering nations had to share
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USDA estimates wheat production for 2017-18 at a record 98.4 million metric tons, up 13 per cent from last year
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This relationship may be posing the biggest threat to world for food insecurity and can be a reason for an agriculture giant like India to still remain on a poor position on global hunger index
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India had a record horticulture production with 2, 99,853 metric tonne and more than 272 million tonnes of food grain production estimates
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The issue is that the government is eyeing for doubling of farmers’ income and investors are interested in investments in mostly post-harvest activities like processing and market connectivity aka supply-chain
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Lashing out at the government, the NGT said that even after two years of being asked to come up with an action plan, they have not done much
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The average sugar recovery rate is expected to remain modest at 11.2 per cent; that is 0.2 percent above the last year and is also the highest recovery rate achieved so far
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Modi said that rural India wants to leverage similar facility as urban India enjoys. He has also pitched for central government’s efforts regarding various rural development schemes
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