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Agriculture Industry
Use ICT to double farmers’ income: Saraswatedit
Niti Aayog member Dr VK Saraswat has advised Telangana to focus more on initiatives that could double income of farmers and use information and communication technology for better agricultural marketing.
Majority of farmers in Punjab under debt, 919 farmer suicides in last two yearsedit
The Congress Government in Punjab has played a `cruel joke’ on the farmers of the state as the number of farmers suicides have been increasing in the state in the last two years. 919 farmers have committed suicide. On an average one farmers in committing suicide every day.
Farmers’ agenda hopes to shift election focus back on agricultural crisisedit
Add cows, subtract chemicals: Organic farming a plus for climate-hit Indian farmersedit
ICHAPUR- As climate change brought less predictable weather, farmers Deepankar Mandal and Sanjib Mandal used to struggle with growing uncertainty about whether they would get a crop each season.
Crop-guzzling insect may cost Indian farmers billions, warns UNedit
United Nations’ Food Agency has warned that a crop-guzzling insect, which has moved from its native Americas to Asia, threatens to cost farmers from India to Thailand billions of dollars in lost production.
Competition
Self-Propelled Sprayer Market Report by Growth Enablers, Geography, Restraints and Trends – Global Forecast To 2024edit
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Technology in Agriculture
Road Machinery Market Analysis, Major Competitor and Strategies, Regional Outlook 2019 To 2024edit
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Power Lawn and Garden Equipment Market Research Report by Raw Material, Application, and Geography – Global Forecast To 2024edit
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Global and Regional Analysis of Agricultural Compact Tractors Market by Industry Outlook, Dynamics, Revenue and Forecast By 2024edit
The Agricultural Compact Tractors market report considers the present scenario of the Agricultural Compact Tractors market and its market dynamics for the period 2019−2024. It covers a detailed overview of various market growth enablers, restraints, and trends. The study includes both the demand and supply sides of the market. It also profiles and analyzes the leading companies and several other prominent companies operating in the Agricultural Compact Tractors market.
Stubble Burning
The cost of crop burning in India is three times the country’s health budgetedit
India’s five-year air-pollution-related health bill from burning crop stubble can pay for about 700 premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences or India’s 2019 central government health budget nearly 21 times over, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from a new study.
Crop residue burning pollutes Delhi’s urban air, studies sayedit
Studying the source of air pollution in New Delhi, a team of researchers from Stockholm University and the Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology found that emissions from burning crop residues or other biomass in rural areas neighboring the city contribute nearly half of the airborne black-carbon particulate matter—soot—in New Delhi during the fall and winter (Nat. Sustainability 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0219-0). The rest of the black-carbon pollution comes from fossil-fuel burning, such as from cars and trucks. The biomass burning contribution drops to 20% in the summer.
Enforcing a ban will not end the menace of stubble burning, say researchersedit
Only educating farmers about the monetary costs of burning stubble can address the environmental crisis triggered every year in Punjab, says a team of Swiss and Indian researchers who interviewed 600 farmers over two years. Burning stubble, the rice chaff left over after harvesting, is linked to winter air-pollution in the State as well as down-wind Delhi