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PM Modi inaugurates Mahindra Tractors Skill Development Centre in Gadchiroli
11-Oct-2025 - 0 Comments.
PM Shri Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated Mahindra Tractor’s Skill Development Centre in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, empowering rural youth with industry-ready skills and employment opportunities.
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Agriculture can boost youth jobs, global GDP: FAO
05-Jul-2025 - 0 Comments.
FAO says boosting youth employment in agrifood systems could add 1.4% to global GDP, transform food security, and tackle climate risks.
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SAIL trains Chhattisgarh farmers in millet cultivation
30-Jun-2025 - 0 Comments.
SAIL's Bhilai Steel Plant starts millet training in Chhattisgarh's Rowghat region to boost rural income, sustainability, and self-employment through CSR.
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Amit Shah urges loan expansion to PACS under Agri Infra Fund
02-Jun-2025 - 0 Comments.
Amit Shah calls for expanding loan access to PACS under AIF to boost rural infrastructure, food grain storage, and employment in India.
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Strengthening academia-industry linkages key to agricultural transformation in India
14-May-2025 - 0 Comments.
As India grapples with the twin challenges of agricultural sustainability and youth employment, experts are calling for stronger linkages between academia and industry to accelerate innovation, enhance productivity, and generate new opportunities across the agri-value chain.
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The Future of Indian Agriculture: Embracing Mechanisation and Smart Farming by 2029
26-Feb-2025 - 0 Comments.
India's agricultural sector has long been the backbone of its economy, providing employment to nearly 50% of the population and contributing around 20% to the national GDP. However, despite its significance, the sector remains largely reliant on traditional farming methods, limiting productivity and efficiency.
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20 Million Trees to Absorb Over 400 Million Kgs of Carbon Annually in India
16-Sep-2024 - 0 Comments.
Generating more than 1.6 million workdays of employment, social enterprise Grow-Trees.com has reached a significant milestone in 2024 by successfully planting over 20 million trees across 23 Indian States.
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Meghalaya recognizes best performing young farmers with awards, seed-money
23-Jun-2024 - 0 Comments.
The Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Government of Meghalaya, through the office of the Principal, Basic Agriculture Training Centre, awarded the achievements of 8 Best Performing candidates from different districts a cash prize of INR 50000 each to support their venture under the visionary programme titled, ‘The Training of Rural Educated Youth for Self-Employment on Farm-Based Activities’ (TREYSEFA)’.
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African Development Bank empowers agri youth programs for greater impact
15-Apr-2024 - 0 Comments.
The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) successfully concluded a three-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at enhancing its Empowering Novel Agri-Business-Led Employment (ENABLE) Youth Program in preparation for its next phase.
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Assam signs MoU with Caspian Impact Investment Adviser to launch an SME Investment Fund for agricultural growth
27-Jun-2023 - 0 Comments.
The Government of Assam, through the Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Caspian Impact Investment Adviser (Caspian Equity) to establish an investment fund aimed at enhancing agricultural growth and employment opportunities in the state.
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Top 10 challenges facing Indian agriculture today
26-Jan-2023 - 0 Comments.
Agriculture is a major contributor to the Indian economy, accounting for around 18 percent of the country's GDP and providing employment for around 50 percent of the population.
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Meghalaya government boost to livestock industry will create employment in the state
11-Jan-2023 - 0 Comments.
India is one of the world's top producers of products related to animal husbandry and livestock. In India, dietary habits have changed as a result of changing lifestyles and increasing per capita income. An increase in demand for livestock products is being caused by rising consumption of milk, meat, and eggs.
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Govt converting rural haats into mini APMCs
15-Feb-2022 - 0 Comments.
Physical infrastructure/ facilities under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have been developed in 1351 village haats and is under development in 1632 number of village haats.
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Govt efforts increase Zaid crops area from 29.71 lakh hectares to 80.46 lakh hectares, says Tomar
03-Feb-2022 - 0 Comments.
Addressing the National conference on Agriculture for Summer Campaign 2021-22 today through video-conferencing, Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Kumar Tomar said that summer crops not only provide extra income but also create employment opportunities in between Rabi and Kharif for the farmers thereby increasing crop intensity.
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Over 80,000 people will get employment from 10500 units, says MP Horticulture & Food Processing Minister
16-Jul-2021 - 0 Comments.
Development of farmer is necessary to make self-reliant India and self-reliant Madhya Pradesh, state horticulture and food processing minister Bharat Singh Kushwah said at a conference organized by Madhya Pradesh State Agro Industries Development Corporation and PHD Chamber of commerce and industry recently in Bhopal.
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New Education Policy will make agricultural sector more prosperous, employment-oriented, says agri minister
29-Jan-2021 - 0 Comments.
The science-driven path developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to resolve the various agricultural and farming problems along with the government's schemes for doubling the farmers' income by 2022, Indian agriculture minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare said.
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Government encouraging start-ups in agriculture for enhancing income of farmers; invest INR 11.85 Cr, says Tomar
04-Aug-2020 - 0 Comments.
The Indian government accords very high priority to the agriculture sector. In order to contribute directly and indirectly to enhancing the income of farmers by providing opportunities to them and to provide employment to youth, start-ups are being encouraged, Indian agriculture and farmers' welfare minister Narendra Singh Tomar said.
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KVIC welcomes increase in import duty on bamboo sticks
12-Jun-2020 - 0 Comments.
Khadi & Village Industries Commission(KVIC) has welcomed the central government’s decision to increase import duty on bamboo sticks from 10% to 25% will open up new avenues of self-employment in the country.
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India working on to bridge the urban rural gap in agriculture
08-Jan-2019 - 0 Comments.
The Government is implementing several programmes that aim at bringing about overall improvement in the quality of life of the rural people and bridging the urban rural gap through: creation of employment opportunities
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Huge opportunities generated for skilled youth in agriculture, allied sectors, says Singh
06-Jan-2017 - 0 Comments.
Indian minister of agriculture and farmers welfare has said that due to the sophisticated development in agriculture sector, employment opportunities have been generated for the skilled youth in the fields of agri-warehousing in agriculture, cold chains, supply chains, dairy, poultry, meat, fisheries, horticulture, agricultural mechanization as well as micro-irrigation.
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No separate policy for agricultural labourers
14-Dec-2016 - 0 Comments.
The Indian labour and employment ministry has made it clear that it has not appointed any committee/task force to frame policies for agricultural labourers
