10-November-2023: PM Kisan Installment, Two Brothers Organic Farms Joins Hands with Paani Foundation, Fish Curing, EPA's Ban on Insecticide Chlorpyrifos

10 November 2023

• Boosting Farmers & Job Seekers: PM Kisan Installment and NREGA Joining Forces!

  These projects involve collaboration among different schemes that seek to offer some financial assistance to rural communities and job seekers. This article examines the benefits and aftermath of this partnership. Last year, the Indian regime started an installment program titled “PM Kisan”, geared towards giving funds directly to cultivators. In this program, qualifying farmers are paid INR six thousand per annum as a support income in three equal parts. The farm input subsidy program works as a security blanket for farmers since it cushions their expenditures on production and investment into agriculture activities.

• Two Brothers Organic Farms Joins Hands with Paani Foundation

  These women farmers produce Rajma variety of their native land and earn 2.5 lacs with no middleman intervention and their produce is set to be delivered across the world. Founded by Satyajit and Ajinkya Hange in 2019, two farmers bridged the gap between urban consumers and rural organic farmers empowering 16,000+ farmers through guidance and support. Two farmers who climbed the corporate ladder, but never forgot their agricultural roots. Two Brothers have bought 2.2 tons of produce from 3 farmer groups in Bichukle village for a total of Rs. 2,55,445! 100 farmers from the taluka have also registered with the brand. Two Brothers also harvest rainwater effectively by creating fertile land that absorbs all the rainwater and replenishes the water table.

• US Court Deems EPA's Ban on Insecticide Chlorpyrifos Arbitrary, Drawing Praise from Farmers for Upholding Science-based Regulations

  While giving its decision the Court also observed that EPA disregarded its own scientists’ findings on uses of Chlorpyrifos while determining safety and efficacy of the product. Earlier in 2002, agriculture groups including Sugar Growers Association; Soybean Growers Associations; Fruits & Vegetable Associations, and Soybean Growers Associations etc filed a lawsuit against EPA’s banning of Chlorpyrifos which restricted them from using the product on crops, where the groups also highlighted high benefits and low risk of the tool for agricultural uses and appealed to review and vacate EPA’s ban order of chlorpyrifos. The decision of the court was also hailed by the Farming community all over the world, as Chlorpyrifos is a broad-spectrum product used in Farming and Public Health and is one of the cheapest products available to Farmers all over the world. Chlorpyrifos is the most effective product against migratory Locust attacks and is recommended by FAO/WHO.

• Fish Curing: A Hygienic Twist to Curing Unveils a Sea of Quality and Extended Shelf Life

  Traditionally, fish preservation in our country has relied on curing, a method that is both cheap and age-old.

  Low-quality fish is often used.

  Poor-quality salt, containing dirt and sand, is commonly used.

  Fish curing yards lack good-quality water.

  Fish is stacked in cement tanks with alternating layers of salt, leading to contamination with sand during the drying process.

  Contamination with red halophilic bacteria limits the storage life of the cured fish to two or three weeks.