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Telangana govt verifying land records before start of farm subsidy schemeedit
The Telangana government has started a survey to verify and update land records before the start of a farm subsidy scheme. The scheme proposes to give farmers input subsidy of Rs4,000 per acre to buy fertilizers, among others. B.R. Meena, special chief secretary, revenue department, said the name of the person legally owning agricultural lands should be reflected in government records. He added that over 4,500 officials from the revenue and agriculture departments have been deployed to complete the task of verifying land records.
Netherlands to assist JK to develop hi-tech horticulture infrastructureedit
To inspect demonstration projects of High Density Apple orchards established by Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) Kashmir in collaboration with companies from Netherlands, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Holland), Alphonsus Stoelinga, today inspected various projects here.
Make own strategy to double farmers’ income: centre to statesedit
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday urged states to chalk out their own strategy to achieve the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. The centre has already come out with a four-volume report suggesting ways to boost farmers’ income, which states will have to study and see how it can be best implemented in each state, he said.
KVK organises field day on maize cropedit
Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Reasi of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology-Jammu (SKUAST-J) organised field day on maize crop at village Talwara in Pouni Block of Reasi District in which large number of farmers of the area participated. The programme was organised under the guidance of Associate Director Extension (ADE) and Incharge KVKs of SKUAST-J, Dr.R.K. Arora. The programme was initiated by Dr. Banarsi Lal, Scientist and Head of KVK, Reasi gave brief objectives of Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs) especially on maize crop and elaborated the scientific organic technologies by which farmers can increase the maize production.
Backed by contingency plan, govt sets ambitious target of foodgrain production despite deficit rainfalledit
Despite stress on Kharif (summer-sown) crops due to deficit rainfall in many districts and floods in several others, the Centre on Tuesday set an ambitious target of overall foodgrain production for the 2017-18 crop year (July-June) based on its contingency measures including use of quality seeds and other appropriate inputs for Rabi (winter-sown) crops. The target was fixed by the agriculture ministry which put the foodgrain production figure for 2017-18 at 274.55 million tonnes (MT) just marginally less than the estimated record production (275.68 MT) in 2016-17.
Bayer dismisses antitrust concerns about digital farmingedit
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Condon said Bayer’s approach in digital farming was currently to control plant pests while Monsanto’s focus was on improving yields. The entire industry was still years away from a more universal business model, he added. Bayer has pledged that any future software platform coming from its labs would not per se exclude rivals’ seeds and crop protection products.
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Mahindra’s driverless tractors to hit marketedit
This technology is is set to make farming more productive and profitable, reduce health hazards for farmers…”In the first phase, the technology would be driver assisted, followed by quasidriverless and fully-driverless models by 2018-19, he said.
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Only 10 out of 800 combine harvesters have SMSedit
Even as the district administration had warned that combine harvesters without the SMS (Straw Management System) equipment would not be allowed to operate in this paddy season, only 10 of a total of around 800 combines have so far got the system installed.
Ban on use of combine harvesters during nightedit
The District Magistrate-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Pradeep Aggarwal, has imposed a ban on harvesting of paddy crop by harvester combines in the district (except area falling under Commissionerate of Police) from 7 pm to 9 am. The use of harvester combines is permitted only from 9 AM to 7 PM
Punjab CM seeks incentives for farmers to stop stubble burningedit
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide incentives to paddy farmers to dissuade them from the harmful practice of stubble burning. The burning of stubble causes large-scale air pollution not only in Punjab but also across the whole of north India.