Farmers Market – ‘Buy local, eat local’
Farmers Market promoted: Recently, Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai announced plans to set up a ‘Farmers Market’. His intention being that the farmers of Fatorda get provided with an avenue to market the produce that they grow locally in Fatorda as per a TOI report. Vijay Sardesai also said that traditional farmers from Fatorda producing vegetables […]
Mechanization puts a smile back on the farmers face
The switch over from manual transplanting operations to mechanization may have taken place on a small scale this season, but the smile is back on the farmers face and promoters of machinery-driven agriculture. The department of agriculture has created a scheme to offer an attractive 75% subsidy to farmers on purchase of transplanters or other […]
