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Agricultural activities have started in the vulnerable fringe areas of Chanung, Moirangpurel and Tumukhong in Imphal East districts with security cover provided by the Manipur Police and Central Forces.
The three-day international conference on Natural Farming for Revitalizing Environment and Resilient Agriculture at College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal concluded on Sunday..
FOCS held a four-day training programme on “Integrated farming system” to help boost the state's economy.
A valedictory function of the 69th All India Cooperative Week Celebration 2022 was held in Imphal on Sunday.
The utilization of rice straw by ruminants is possibly the most efficient means of rice straw management.
In view of the changing environmental scenario and the crisis situation as the fields parched up, should our farmers give up traditional farming practice and adopt new farming methods and technology, or should we wait on the government's action to address the alarming situation and for how long?
Coping with the changing scenario, farmers in Imphal East are replacing traditional practices with “Jalkund” - a simple and low-cost water harvesting system.
UCM to mount pressure on the government to facilitate the availability of welfare schemes benefits for farmers in the hills and border areas.
The state government policy of importing more rice for distribution to the public during the pandemic has resulted in decreasing number of takers for local rice owing to which, farmers and rice brokers are suffering heavy loss.
The Irabot Foundation Manipur has urged the Manipur government to set up a probe committee on irrigation facilities in the state.
The Meghalaya government has decided to extend a 50 per cent subsidy to farmers for procurement of fertilisers.
Farmers were provided training at a one-day awareness cum training programme on ‘Catalysing Rural Empowerment through Cultivation, Processing, Value Addition and Marketing of Aromatic Plants’ organised by a farmers’ society ‘Forever Mapithel Society (FMS)’.
The MPCC submitted a memorandum on the need for proper guidelines for urea distribution to farmers in the state to the directorate of Agriculture on Wednesday.
The climatic condition of North-eastern region, as evident in the records of Coffee Board of India, is suitable for coffee farming.
Several people urged the Manipur government to adopt large-scale mustard oil plantation as an alternative to oil palm plantation..
Urging all farmers to focus on organic farming and support the government’s mission in converting Manipur into a pure organic state within the next five years, Biren said, "Larger quantum of funds for organic farming will be released in 2023".
The villagers of Kwatha will be registered as organic farmers under Mission Organic Value Chain Development of North East Region (MOVCD-NER) to make them start the process of organic farming.
The region has been witnessing untimely and frequent rains even during the dry season. Despite the unfavourable weather condition, poor farmers in the villages continue to carry out clearing of forest areas for cultivation of paddy and other crops for their survival.
At the core of the farmer-State confrontation, and now of the hard negotiations between them, lies this issue: Who will fix the cracking food bowl?
It would be in the fitness of things that a study is carried out on the impact of PDS rice on the agriculture in the state. A competent investigator can be roped in and a systematic assessment on the quantity of annual production of rice, shortfall in requirement, quantity utilised for preparation of local liquor, etc is assessed.
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