Move to about RS 1 lakh car, here’sa price similar tractor with Tata-to-be-launched small car. For years, banks and financial institutions have it, in addition to loans to small farmers, under the pretext that a tractor loans amounting to Rs 3.5 lakh a high risk.

But only if the lack of options that threatened to push farmers away from mechanization, a rebel group headed by the movement of the small rural town innovators and manufacturers of tractor big challenge for players

The Indian Phytopathologi-cal Society (NZ) and the Indian Society of Plant Pathologists will jointly organise a brain storming session on “Wilt diseases of plants” at Punjab Agricultural University’s Farmers’ Service Centre on October 28.

According to Dr S.K. Mann and Dr. P.P.S. Pannu, the wilt diseases are complex and affect a wide variety of crops from cotton to cucurbits, guava, tomato, potato, chillies, chickpea, etc and cause huge economic losses.

The India will not open its cards on the market of industrial products in the WTO negotiations, unless rich countries come in advance with their bids for the removal of agricultural subsidies, senior official said.

In its latest efforts to break the impasse between developed and developing countries in the Doha Round of trade negotiations of the WTO considered a separate project on Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Market Access (NAMA).

While India and other developing countries like Brazil are ready to accept the proposal on agriculture as a good basis for negotiations, the text on NAMA (industrial products) was completely rejected.

“The text is as NAMA was very controversial because it attempts to sequence discussions on industrial products there are negotiations on agricultural property, commercial director at the Ministry of Commerce Bipin Menon said at a CII meeting.

Menon, closely linked since the WTO negotiations, said the USA and Europe that developing countries open their cards on industrial goods, while maintaining the strategy for agriculture to his chest close.

The negotiations on NAMA, from 24 September in the Indian part of officials.

“We want agriculture in the centrestage among themselves and with NAMA and services,” he said.

According to experts from the USA is unlikely to lower subsidies and direct income support, it was at its farmers.

“The USA are the direct income support for farmers and there is no indication on the farm for the reduction of subsidies,” said Biswajit Dhar, professor and director of the Center for issues of the WTO, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

New Delhi, June 19 (PTI): Substituting cotton cultivation with soyabean can help prevent farmers’ suicides, a study has said.

Farmers stand to loose due to declining prices of cotton and they would gain by cultivating soyabean that is witnessing an increase in prices, according to a study ‘Cotton to Soyabean: A Way Out of Farmers’ Suicides’ by two professors of the Indian Institute of Management (Indore) S P Parashar and Dipayan Datta Chaudhuri.

“Farmers are committing suicides because they are unable to recover the production cost,” the study said adding, “in such a scenario of declining profitability from cotton cultivation, it is rational to explore the possibility of of substituting cotton by another cash crop soyabean.”

The Minimum Support Price for cotton never covered the total expenses incurred in its production, the study noted while saying that there is ready cash payment for soyabean. Payment for cotton gets staggered, it added.

The study said it is cheaper to cultivate soyabean than cotton.

While there is a stagnation in the area under cotton cultivation, there is an increasing trend for soyabean cultivation in Maharashtra, the study said.

The study says cotton cultivation in India has been plagued by rising cost of cultivation, ineffective pesticides, adulterated seeds and other inputs.

Indore, Oct 3 (PTI) ITC said today it would spend some of their profits for the country’s development, the agricultural sector, as a diversified conglomerate plans to invest a billion dollars to improve the infrastructure of support to farmers.

“With the end of October, a portion of the price of the ITC on the products would be required to provide a report on soil, weather, children and training, as well as water, harvesting techniques, agriculture, “ITC chairman YC Deveshwar Says here today.

The company is in the pumping station of a billion dollars for the development of agriculture to be put in place, including initiatives such as computer e-chaupals to farmers.

“The ITC has now about 6000 e-choupals and 12 choupal sagars in the country of crucial importance to the provision of inputs to farmers better prices for their products,” he said.

The question of whether the company plans to enter the growing market in the retail sector, Deveshwar, “said itc looks a little more time before a decision.”

Former provides a presentation on “triple bottom line: ITC experience”, the Indian Institute of Management (Indore) 10 days Deveshwar Foundation invited companies to increase their profits will help the agricultural sector.

It urged the government to tax incentives for companies that are trying to help the agricultural sector.