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Farmers have already started preparing land and raising paddy nurseries, from where saplings will be transplanted to fields by the second week of June.
The strike will be followed by other movement steps until the issue does not find any acceptable solution.
Labourers sort salt as they work on a salt pan at Thoothukudi some 160kms south of Madurai.
The data showed that the modal prices of agri-produce on UMP in Karnataka witnessed much higher increase than the wholesale rates of the same commodity in the country.
The primary reason farming is unviable is that farms here are now among the world's smallest (the global average land-holding size is 5.5 hectares).
The chief minister asked the department to prepare a comprehensive action plan to introduce new practices of cattle breeding, elimination of cattle disease.
Sources indicated that the Cabinet has gone with the recommendation of the agriculture ministry for the 2017-18 kharif season.
Pulses prices, especially tur dal, have fallen sharply in wholesale mandis below the minimum support price of Rs 5,050 per quintal due to a record crop this year.
Of the total exports undertaken during May 2017, shipments to Europe and other countries increased to 1,27,548 tonnes from 3,989 tonnes in the year-ago.
A spokesman of horticulture department said that the maximum amount limit of subsidy of Rs 500 per kilogramme seed or 50 per cent whichever is less would be provided.
He said that if social policies impede the workings of the livestock market, the impact on the economics of livestock farming could be considerable.
India, the world's second-biggest tea producer, exports CTC (crush-tear-curl) grade mainly to Egypt, Pakistan and the UK, and the orthodox variety to Iraq, Iran and Russia.
Deepak Pental said he has already been approached by local seed companies to get licence for the GM mustard that yields 30 per cent more than the current varieties.
The company would be providing a state digital agriculture platform with a database of all Punjab farmers, besides tracking and analysing their agriculture activities.
With a view to ensure farmers do not loose total interest in oilseed cultivation we suggest the following intervention on top most priority.
The price was not enough to even take care of transportation from the field to the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) auction centres.
The production in north India rose by 34.55 million Kg, an increase of 3.43 per cent of which West Bengal is a major contributor, south India production decreased by 17.20 million Kg.
