Agriculture

The first ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF), unique initiative for taking farmers, artisans and other members of cooperatives directly to the global trade arena, is to be held in New Delhi 11-13 October 2019.

The Government has constituted a technology-driven Inter-Ministerial Committee to examine issues relating to doubling of farmers’ income and recommend a strategy to achieve doubling of farmers’ income in real terms by the year 2022.

Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has reviewed the draft National Logistics Policy and has stressed on the need to bring down the logistics cost to less than 10% of the GDP by 2022 from the current 14%...

Expanding agriculture sector coupled with strong growth in infrastructure development, rapid industrialization and rising urbanization are the key factors expected to push the demand for PVC at CAGR of 6.81% during 2019-2030.

India will be hosting the 14th session of Conference of Parties (COP-14) from 29 August–14 September 2019, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on 17 June 2019 in Delhi, stressing on India’s role in combating desertification.

World Food India 2019, to be held 1-4 November 2019, will be the biggest gathering of all global and domestic stakeholders in Food Processing Sector.

Bangalore’s CropIn, a full-stack agri-tech organization, has registered a 3X ARR growth over the last five quarters and has grown by 325% during the last 15 months.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is focused on measures to boost Economic and Social Infrastructure of Rural Sector and ways to eradicate unemployment and poverty through development of Agriculture and Allied Sectors as well as Non-Farm Sector.

The Government plans to create 100 lakh ton silo storage capacity in the country to ensure that not a grain of food is wasted.

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has called upon scientists and researchers to address pressing issues such as climate change, global warming and extreme weather events so that the world was better prepared to tackle adverse situations.