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UNDP partners with Arya, Friends of Women’s World Banking to improve incomes of 10,000 households
29-Oct-2022 - 0 Comments.
UNDP has selected Arya.ag and Friends of Women’s World Banking, India (FWWB India) as partners for implementing enterprise promotion and value chain interventions in agriculture and allied activities.
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Dawn of GM crops ensuring food security and environmental gains
21-Sep-2022 - 0 Comments.
Since the first genetically modified (GM) crops for sale to consumers were sown in the 1990s, farmers across the world have seen their incomes rising due to higher farm productivity and efficiency gains.
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World Bank supports food security, higher incomes of farmers vulnerable to climate change in Bangladesh
16-Mar-2022 - 0 Comments.
The government of Bangladesh and World Bank signed a USD 120m financing agreement to help improve the irrigated agricultural and fisheries production and increase the incomes of 170,000 poor people vulnerable to climate change.
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Indian government signs USD 115m loan agreement with World Bank for implementation of watershed projects
21-Feb-2022 - 0 Comments.
The Government of India, the State Governments of Karnataka and Odisha and the World Bank have signed a USD 115m (INR 869 crore) Programme (Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development Programme) that will help national and state institutions adopt improved watershed management practices to help increase farmers’ resilience to climate change, promote higher productivity and better incomes.
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ReshaMandi boosts silk farmers income by approx 50%, benefits 1500 plus families
26-Dec-2021 - 0 Comments.
ReshaMandi, India's first and largest B2B marketplace for Silk, announced that they have successfully improved the incomes of the sericulture farmers by approximately 50 percent, within just 16 months of commencing their operations.
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How farmers can benefit using drones
30-Aug-2021 - 0 Comments.
The Agriculture Industry in India employs more than half of its current population and is one of the few countries in the world to employ such large numbers, has one of the highest arable lands with over 155 million hectares, generated INR 19 lakh crore in terms of revenues in 2019 and contributed 18 percent to the India’s GDP. Despite all these achievements, India is a laggard when it comes to doubling its farmers’ incomes.
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Cultivation, processing of aromatic plants doubles incomes of farmers in Himachal
06-Mar-2021 - 0 Comments.
Farmers in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, keen for new livelihood options to supplement their income from traditional crops like maize, paddy, and wheat, have found a new lease of life.
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Corteva Agriscience introduces technology, sustainability initiatives for corn farmer across five states
13-Oct-2020 - 0 Comments.
Corteva Agriscience (NYSE: CTVA), the global agriculture company today said that it has undertaken several initiatives to enable corn crop mechanization and empower farmers which, in the first year of implementation, helped to improve yield with less water usage, reduced cost of cultivation and, critically, increased farmer incomes.
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Parliament passes farm bills, full protection to farmers, procurement at MSP will continue, says Narendra Singh Tomar
20-Sep-2020 - 0 Comments.
Parliament today passed two bills aimed at transforming agriculture in the country and raising farmers’ incomes. The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 which were passed by Lok Sabha on 17 September 2020, were passed by the Rajya Sabha also today.
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Supporting livelihoods and nutrition of smallholder farmers in India
14-Dec-2018 - 0 Comments.
Bayer and the S M Sehgal Foundation (SMSF) – a non-profit organization supporting smallholder farmers in India – have announced the “Sustainability of Agriculture and Smallholder Development” project. Aim of the project is to improve farmers’ incomes by introducing them to easy-to-learn-and-adopt best agronomic practices.