Growth projections for India have been cut due to the pervasive economic slowdown across segments (consumer durables, auto, and biscuits) and officials are not confident of achieving the target. Moneycontrol News@moneycontrolcom https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/imf-questions-indias-tax-revenue-esimates-report-4365591.html Representative Image The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised doubts over India’s steep tax revenue collection estimates for 2019-20, according to a report in Business Standard. …

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Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations. It began with the enactment of the Co-operative Credit Societies …

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Updated: February 28, 2018 4:31:38 AM https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/why-improving-soil-health-is-critical/1082299/ The pressures of constantly increasing production have resulted in a persistent decline in soil fertility—a major challenge that Indian agriculture is facing. Increasing penetration of agricultural inputs has helped Indian farmers achieve record foodgrain production. Increasing penetration of agricultural inputs has helped Indian farmers achieve record foodgrain production. …

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https://www.teriin.org/article/reversing-land-degradation-india 30 Jul 2019 Mr S Vijay Kumar Nearly one-third of area in India faces the threat of land degradation Land degradation and desertification in India are among the biggest challenges At the behest of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, ISRO’s Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad along with partner institutes took up the …

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Farmers Incomes: NABARD All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS) 2016-17 estimates that an average Indian farming household earned `8,931/month (`1,07, 172/year) in the agriculture year 2015-16. This is up from `2,115 earned in 2002-03 as per NSSO’s SAS, implying a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 12% in nominal terms and 3.7% in …

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Agricultural Extension System in India http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Agriculture-Extension-System-in-India-2018.pdf Download the report 2018 Agriculture-Extension-System-in-India-2018 Review of Current Status, Trends and the Way Forward Ashok Gulati Pravesh Sharma Anisha Samantara Prerna Terway INDIAN COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

In January, there were 19,872 transactions across 18 states, where the price was below the MSP In 2018-19, just 12% of the 33.6 million farmers who were growing wheat availed of the government’s MSP Today, the central government is intervening to provide minimum income support to small and marginal farmers. This distress intervention might not …

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