Parthasarathi Biswas

In Maharashtra, bankers pointed out that 80 per cent farmers, who avail institutional finances, would come under this bracket.

Unlike the big ones, micro units — which make up more than 40 per cent of the industrial landscape in Pune — have failed to see any significant recovery so far due to lack of ready credit and trained manpower. 

According to officials, the updated digital platform, CoWin 2.0, was not able to verify the age of the beneficiaries, who would be eligible for the vaccine shot only if they were above 60 or above 45 comorbidities.

Maharashtra has vaccinated 11.09 lakh vaccine beneficiaries so far. After Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra is on the fifth spot, with the highest number of vaccinations. In Pune district, 65.2 per cent healthcare workers have been vaccinated (73,624).

Developed by Parag Narvekar, Sensartics has three levels of solutions aimed at individual farmers to an entire village. Narvekar, whose academic and professional career has seen him rubbing shoulders with scientists at IIT Bombay and NASA

Scalar stations are the entry-level solutions offered by the company which is installed at individual farms of small holders.

In January, consumption had dropped as people avoided poultry meat and eggs over bird flu fears, although properly cooked meat and eggs are completely safe.

All across India, dairies have reported milk price increases over the past couple of months. These increases are partly attributed to global factors.

Nandakumar Kakirde, Director and Honorary Secretary of the Trust, said the main aim behind the introduction of Sanskrit as a medium of instruction was to mainstream the language.

Another lockdown, industry leaders said, would be fatal to the Indian economy.

While sugar mills have been threatened with action for selling sugar below the government-mandated MSP, the cane commissioners have been asked to track the sale of sugar and report any breach of MSP.

Replacement of old vehicles will not only play an important role in sales of newer vehicles, but also reduce the threat of air pollution.

Migrant workers constitute the backbone of this sector as they are involved in various stages like harvesting, sorting and handling of the fruit.

Maharashtra’s SEC UPS Madan spoke to The Indian Express in details about this phenomenon and what can be done about it.

Thanks to their grass root level organization and reach, FPCs, especially those in Latur, Osmanbad, and other pulses and oilseed producing districts of the state, have access to assured supply of both.

Mechanisms for the effective implementation of MSP policies are lacking, they said.

Despite external factors such as drought in USA, bullish procurement by China and Covid-19, Indian growers have benefited from CCI's procurement centres.

Old vehicles if scrapped would make available raw materials like aluminium, copper etc which would bring down the import bill.

On Wednesday, the average traded price of tur at Latur’s wholesale market in Maharashtra crossed the MSP to trade at Rs 6,150 per quintal

As the automobile sector witnessed good growth, orders came in for the SMEs in the Pune region who form the vast ecosystem of the region’s industrial landscape. Return of migrant workers had eased their labour pangs and production had started to touch the pre-covid times.

Even as the central and state departments continue with their efforts to control the spread, the organised poultry industry is reporting a drastic drop in prices of both poultry meat and eggs.

FPCs in Maharashtra are licensed by the state government to carry out trade outside the APMCs, but they are expected to pay cess to the market committees which ranges from 1-1.-5 percent of the transaction.

Complaints and videos of auctions for panchayat seats prompted the Election Commission on Wednesday to cancel elections to two gram panchayats — in Umrane village of Nashik and Kondamali of Nandurbar, where the auctions reportedly fetched Rs 2 crore and Rs 42 lakh respectively.

On Tuesday, the death of 214 poultry birds was reported in the state. Of these, 200 deaths were reported from Yavatmal, 11 from Amravati and three from Akola. Four crows have also died in Akola, bringing the total toll to 218.