Page 5 - Kharif Crops

Kharif sowing picks up but is still about 10% lower than last year

Sowing of groundnut and cotton crops has fallen significantly

Farmers will lose Rs 36k-cr due to prices falling below MSP: Farmers' body

Thousands of farmers to gather in Delhi on November 20 to highlight their plight

Shortage of jute sacks to hurt kharif season procurement

Food grains and sugar procurement in the country during the kharif agriculture season of 2017-18 is set to take a blow as supplies of jute sacking bags is in disarray. The Jute Commissioner's office is yet to update its Jute Smart portal and make it compliant with the new indirect tax structure- Goods & Service Tax (GST). According to the Jute Packaging Materials Packaging Act (JPMA)-1987, it is mandatory to pack foodgrains in jute sacking bags of up to 90 per cent. For sugar, the packaging order is relaxed at 20 per cent.Punjab, the biggest indenter of jute sacking bags for packing food grains has warned the office of the Jute Commissioner that the situation may spun out of control if urgent steps are not implemented to make the jute industry GST ready. In two separate letters to the Jute Commissioner's office on July 4 and July 10, the Punjab government authorities alerted that kharif procurement operations would suffer as supplies of jute bags were in a quandary. The Punjab ...

'Kharif crop in over 35 lakh hectare hit due to rain failure'

During 2016 Kharif season, sowing was done in about 71.67 lakh hectares, and due to the failure of rains crops in 35.41 lakh has been damaged

Kharif crops face flood threat

Rain, flooding hit large tracts in UP, MP & Bihar; crops like paddy impacted