The recent draft of the agriculture policy by the Punjab government’s committee attempts to synthesise past recommendations. However, it spreads its focus too thinly across numerous challenges ...

“The demand for progressive farming solutions and practices is growing,” said Punjab Agriculture Department Director Muhammad Anjum. “The use of latest technology in agriculture is resulting ...

Punjab’s economy, including its agriculture, has been in crisis for some time on various fronts. But the pandemic provided an opportunity to the state government to set up an expert committee to ...

Last week the Punjab government launched the Connected Agriculture Platform. The platform aims at creating a digital ecosystem for farmers, where they would use smartphones to access weather ...

The development is a result of two years of collective work by institutions and teams of experts, backed by the Punjab government and supported by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO ...

After assuming power in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government constituted an 11-member expert committee on January 17 last year to draft the state agricultural policy. The panel’s initial ...

California Farmer, a 160-year-old agriculture magazine that took on lending institutions during the 1980s farm financial crisis, delved into the state's water controversies and even devoted one ...

A fourth Bill - The Code of Civil Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020 was also passed, which seeks to insert a provision for exemption of agriculture land not exceeding 2.5 acres from Section ...

Punjab agriculture and farmers welfare minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Wednesday met a delegation of farmer unions to discuss the Punjab agriculture policy and sought their suggestions for the same.

Holding a high-level review meeting regarding Punjab’s new agricultural policy on Thursday, the state Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal discussed all aspects of the policy with the ...

Future of Cooperative Societies: There are 19164 cooperative societies in Punjab out of which 3953 are Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS). Of these, 56% are in profit ...