KHAMMAM: A new modern market for farmers of Khammam district to sell their produce will start functioning on a 29-acre area at Maddulapalli in Khammam Rural mandal within one year, announced agriculture minister Niranjan Reddy. Laying the foundation stone for the new market on Wednesday, he disclosed that state has already allocated ₹ 100 crore for the new farm market …
that it is growing at a rather nice clip, despite the rest of the economy being in the doldrums since the COVID-19 pandemic. Among non-food crops, oilseeds output is estimated at 25.7 million tonnes, about 15 per cent more than the previous year’s figure. For instance, the survey revealed that the increase in the cost of hired machines for ploughing …
A rather confident statement heard in the midst of India’s COVID-19-induced economic slowdown is this: “Agriculture will lead India’s economic revival”. I compared total market arrivals of 15 major crops in India between March 15 and June 30 in 2019 and 2020. The dark side of higher rural inflation in India is that small and marginal farmers are not net …
