Telangana is convincing farmers to gradually go in for diversification of crops to overcome the problem of surplus paddy production in the long-term, the State Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy has said.
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Samunnati and Maha FPO Federation have come together to host farmgate procurement of onion in Maharashtra.
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Agriculture has been pivotal to India since the dawn of its civilization. With one of the largest arable lands complemented by favorable climatic conditions, it enables the subcontinent to produce a variety of crops.
Tamil Nadu-based Samunnati has recently launched the Annadata Suraksha Abhiyaan, a dedicated crowd-sourcing campaign driven via Samunnati’s corporate social responsibility outreach.
In 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic and the lockdowns that followed, Vizhudugal Farmers Producer Company (FPC), in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, with over 1500 farmers in its fold, was desperately seeking to sell its agricultural produce—coriander, chilli, pulses, maize, onions and oil seeds.
We have started actually setting up weather stations for some of these FPOs to collect weather data in terms of precipitation, wind speed, rainfall, sunlight, so that at some point, we will be able to structure insurance products for the members of the FPOs," Anil Kumar SG, Founder and CEO of Samunnati told ET.
Samunnati, an agri-value chain enabler and India’s largest agri-tech enterprise, on Monday announced hitting the Rs 10,000 crore gross transactional value (GTV) mark across its agri-commerce and agri-finance business.
Agri value chain financier Samunnati has entered into a co-lending agreement with IndusInd Bank to expand credit accessibility and market linkages for farmers producer organisations (FPOs) across the country.
