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Agriculture Industry
Rural colleges are ignoring one of their largest industries: agricultureedit
Farris Beasley stands in a barn on his 600-acre farm, pointing out equipment both ancient and modern and longing for the days when all of it was as easy to repair as his 1939 John Deere tractor.
AI In Agriculture: Sowing The Seeds Of Prediction-Fostered Planningedit
It is one of the marvels of human innovation but artificial intelligence (AI) offers tough competition to us. The days of speculating rain and sunshine may soon fade with artificial intelligence’s capability to predict right conditions with precision to an extent. It comprises one of the basic aspects of precision agriculture (PA) promoted even by the government to boost productivity and in turn, farmers’ income.
Agriculture sector: Scale up your farms & pool inedit
Like in any other annual Budget, GoI is expected to unveil key measures to address rural agrarian distress in tomorrow’s interim Budget announcement. This is especially anticipated, considering the Lok Sabha elections are around the bend.
‘Achhe Din’ Far From Reality for Potato Farmers in Indiaedit
Recently, MPs belonging to the opposition were pictured selling potatoes outside parliament. A farmer from Agra made news for sending to Prime Minister Narendra Modi a money order of Rs 490 – the profit he earned for selling 19 tonnes of potatoes. Last year, farmers dumped potatoes outside Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s house. It would appear obvious, even to casual observers, that potato farmers in India face a crisis.
Production of horticulture crops seen at record 314.67 million tonnes in 2018-19edit
India’s horticulture production is estimated to rise by 1 per cent to record 314.67 million tonnes in 2018-19 on higher area, the government said Wednesday.
Budget
Budget may focus on rural, agriculture sectoredit
In the previous Union Budget, the government’s focus was on improving farm incomes and infrastructure. Hence, allocation to farm procurement and roads sector was increased by 21% and 16% respectively. Ministry-wise spending in the year also shows that the government’s focus has been maintained on farmers, health, roads and rural infrastructure.
Farmers demand separate budget for agricultureedit
Farmers said that there was still no mechanism that could provide authentic statistics about the acreage of cr… Read More Nashik: Farmers from the district want the central government to have a separate budget for agriculture just like the railway budget. The farmers also want the Centre to set up separate funds for farmers in line with the Price Stability Funds. The reactions from farmers come ahead of the union budget for the financial year 2019-20 that will be presented on February 1. “We want separate agricultural budget in the interest of th
Stubble Burning
Fin Commission forms committee to resolve `31K cr food account legacy issueedit
Providing a major relief to the debt ridden Punjab Government, at least to some extent, the 15th Finance Commission on Wednesday decided to set up a panel under one of its member to resolve Rs 31,000 crore food account legacy issue.