Agriculture & Rural Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sun, 02 Mar 2025

• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced at the Kisan Aabhar Sammelan in Bhopal on 2 March 2025 that farmers will get permanent electricity connections for ₹5 and 30 lakh solar pumps over the next three years.

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the post-budget webinar on 'Agriculture and Rural Prosperity' via video-conferencing on 1 March 2025.

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

• The Ministry of Agriculture said on 28 February 2025 that the target of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations under the central sector scheme has been achieved, with the 10,000th FPO, in Khagaria district, Bihar, launched by PM Modi at Bhagalpur.

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

• The amount under operative Kisan Credit Card (KCC) accounts reached ₹10.05 lakh crore as of 31 December 2024, benefiting 7.72 crore farmers, the Finance Ministry said on 25 February 2025.

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 19th instalment of PM-KISAN from Bhagalpur, Bihar, on 24 February 2025, transferring over ₹22,000 crore to more than 9.8 crore farmers, including 2.41 crore women farmers.
• The 21st General Session of the African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO), held in New Delhi from 21 to 24 February 2025, unanimously elected India as President for the triennium 2025-27.

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

• The Agriculture Ministry said on 17 February 2025 that PM-AASHA continues through the 15th Finance Commission cycle to 2025-26, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan approved procurement of 13.22 lakh tonnes of tur in nine states for kharif 2024-25.

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

• Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh inaugurated the 14th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum (14AFAF) at the Pusa campus in New Delhi on 12 February 2025.

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

• The Agriculture Ministry said on 10 February 2025 that the integrated PM-AASHA scheme will continue during the 15th Finance Commission cycle up to 2025-26, and extended groundnut and soybean procurement in Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana.

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

• The Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare said on 6 February 2025 that tradable parameters for 10 more commodities had been added to the e-NAM platform, raising the total to 231.

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

• Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the national mass outreach campaign 'Watershed Yatra' under the Watershed Development Component of PMKSY on 5 February 2025.

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

• Ground Level Agriculture Credit of ₹19.28 lakh crore had been disbursed by 31 December 2024, 70% of the FY 2024-25 target of ₹27.5 lakh crore, the Agriculture Ministry said on 31 January 2025.

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 29 January 2025 raised the administered ex-mill price of C-heavy molasses ethanol for public sector OMCs to ₹57.97 per litre from ₹56.58 for Ethanol Supply Year 2024-25.

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

• IIT Indore inaugurated AgriHub, a MeitY-supported Centre of Excellence using AI, machine learning and deep learning for sustainable agriculture, on 27 January 2025.
• The Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare reported Rabi sowing of over 655.88 lakh hectares as of 27 January 2025, with wheat at 324.38 lakh hectares.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh virtually inaugurated the Incubation & Innovation Complex (IICON) of CSIR-NEIST at the North East Aroma Conclave 2025, PIB reported on 27 January 2025.

Sun, 26 Jan 2025

• The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying displayed its first-ever Republic Day tableau, on indigenous cattle breeds, at Kartavya Path on 26 January 2025.

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

• Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh inaugurated a conclave on livestock development in the North-East Region in Shillong on 23 January 2025 and launched projects including a ₹10.23 crore multiplier pig farm in Meghalaya.

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 22 January 2025 fixed the MSP of raw jute (TD-3 grade) for the 2025-26 season at ₹5,650 per quintal, ₹315 more than last season.

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

• Rabi crops had been sown on 640 lakh hectares as on 20 January 2025, against 637.49 lakh hectares a year earlier, with wheat at 320 lakh hectares, the Agriculture Ministry reported.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

• Palle Ganga Reddy named first Chairperson; India accounts for over 70% of global turmeric production.
• Wheat area at 320 lakh ha versus 315.63 lakh ha a year ago.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

• 3,000 high-genetic-merit cattle distributed; Gift Milk programme for about 1,200 schoolchildren.
• Projects in 10 best-performing states to cover about 2.8 lakh hectares.

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

• NITI Aayog Member (Health) Vinod K Paul inaugurated the conclave under the One Health approach.

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

• TraceNet 2.0 and new NPOP, organic promotion, APEDA and AgriXchange portals unveiled.
• The institute has developed over 100 crop varieties suited to the region, President Murmu noted in a video message.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

• Indusfood 2025 debuts as an integrated farm-to-fork trade show with about 1,800 exhibitors.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

• Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh also opened 50 PMMSY projects worth ₹50 crore for the Northeast in Guwahati.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025

• The 4–9 January festival, organised with NABARD, carries the theme 'Building a Resilient Rural India for a Viksit Bharat 2047'.