India to Spend $8 Billion to Boost Irrigation, Reduce Dependence on Monsoon

No latter , India government has understood some basic facts that farmers are the back bone to our country . Most of the farming in our country depends on monsoons ,but due to changes in climatic conditions such as global warming which has an direct impact on the variation of monsoons brought an significant loss to our farmers .This has been an crucial problem to our farming community . So , Inorder to help for farming all through the year you just need to understand a basic fact that the irrigation should be made at its best to supply the water to the farming lands all through the year .

Indian farmer, Kumniben Gelabhai Chaudhry, works in her field at Selarpur village in Surat district, some 260 kms from Ahmedabad on March 13, 2013. Genetic diversity should be used efficiently to boost farm growth and achieve food security in a sustainable manner, the Indian government said in February 2013. AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)

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According to the Reports ,India has approved spending of 500 billion rupees ($7.9 billion) over five years to expand irrigation in rural areas to boost crop productivity and it also plans an online agricultural market to help farmers get better prices for their produce.A total of 53 billion rupees has been allocated for the irrigation project in the current fiscal year ending on March 31, 2016, the government said in a statement on Thursday._77673459_ladies624

We are known with the fact that Half of India’s farmland lacks irrigation so any increase in irrigated land should help reduce the country’s dependence on the June-September monsoon, which is expected to be deficient this year, raising fears of the first drought in six years.The move may help the government’s standing in rural areas, after opposition parties stalled its efforts to effect changes to the land law that would have made it easier to push through compulsory land purchases for industrial and other projects.

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Farmers cut paddy in a field in Baruipur village, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Kolkata, India, Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Earlier in the year, Indian Finance Minister pledged to introduce a food security bill in the next fiscal year, which would provide cheap grain to hundreds of millions of poor people while also prompting fears of spiraling subsidy costs. India's poor have been hit hard by the rise in food prices caused by increasing demand and woefully inadequate storage and distribution systems in the country. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Above all the government has also had to cope with a wave of suicides by farmers whose livelihoods have been ruined by bad weather.Agriculture accounts for about 15 percent of India’s $2 trillion economy, but three-fifths of the population of more than 1.2 billion depends on farming for a livelihood.Shares in irrigation system providers such as Jain Irrigation Systems, Finolex Industries Ltd and Shakti Pumps jumped as much as 9 percent in the generally flat Mumbai market following the announcement.

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India will also launch a national online platform this year for trading agricultural commodities, spending 2 billion rupees on the project, Farm Minister Radha Mohan Singh told reporters.Currently farmers are restricted to selling their produce at “mandis”, or market committees, in their states. The online market will aim to group 585 of these markets eventually, and 250 in 2015.The new platform will help farmers in not only securing higher prices but also in deciding when to sell their produce in the market, Singh said.

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