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Agriculture Industry
‘FarmHers’ breaking stereotypes and changing the fieldedit
mobilisation of 50 women for a government programme on organic farming and a selfhelp group is leading economic reforms in the village. From 2013 to 2017, a group led by Lakshmi, toiled extensively on spreading awareness on organic farming and dairy farming at ground level. This is presently yielding results in Yelekudligi village in Sindhanur taluk. Over 40 women are cultivating paddy using vermicompost, and practising dairy farming.
Increase Bihar’s green cover to fight global warming: Nitish Kumaredit
The CM said after the separation of Jharkhand from Bihar in November 2000, the state was left with a hugely depleted green cover of around only 8%. “In the last 15 years, 22 crore saplings were planted in various parts of the state. Today, the state’s green cover is 15%, but it has to be increased to 17%, which is the desired national standard for any region,” the CM said.
Kharif Sowing Gear Up with Rising Rainfalledit
Kharif sowing improved drastically with the increase of monsoon rainfall since last week. The sowing shortfall is down to 8.61 percent, covering 413.34 lakh hectares (LH), compared to 452.3 LH covered in the corresponding week of last year. Improvement in rainfall helped the farmers in speed up the sowing, according to data released by the Agriculture Ministry.
NABARD to Fund India’s Five Most Promising Agritech Startupsedit
National bank for agriculture and rural development (NABARD) felicitated five Agritech startups for their promising role in agriculture on the occasion of the 38th Foundation Day of the government-backed National bank. These promising five Agritech startups included dairy startup Stellapps Technologies, biotech startup Sea6 Energy, aqua-farming startup Eruvaka Technologies, rural e-commerce platform InThree (BoonBox) and packaged foods startup Kottaram Agro foods (Soulful).
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NABARD to Fund India’s Five Most Promising Agritech Startupsedit
National bank for agriculture and rural development (NABARD) felicitated five Agritech startups for their promising role in agriculture on the occasion of the 38th Foundation Day of the government-backed National bank. These promising five Agritech startups included dairy startup Stellapps Technologies, biotech startup Sea6 Energy, aqua-farming startup Eruvaka Technologies, rural e-commerce platform InThree (BoonBox) and packaged foods startup Kottaram Agro foods (Soulful).
Technology in Agriculture
Machine Learning Can Now Help Farmers Choose Crops Ripe For Harvestingedit
Over the past few years, robotics has witnessed a tremendous transformation and is invading other industries. And among all, agriculture is one such sector that is making the best out of robotics — not only in terms of problems with labour shortages in agriculture but also in terms of reducing food waste. Many Indian farmers face the problem of losing crops every single year due to the lack of human labour and equipment. And witnessing that, the nation has taken significant steps. Robotics is one such domain that India has tapped in to use in agriculture. Over the years the nation has witnessed some of the major innovations in agritech.
‘FarmHers’ breaking stereotypes and changing the fieldedit
mobilisation of 50 women for a government programme on organic farming and a selfhelp group is leading economic reforms in the village. From 2013 to 2017, a group led by Lakshmi, toiled extensively on spreading awareness on organic farming and dairy farming at ground level. This is presently yielding results in Yelekudligi village in Sindhanur taluk. Over 40 women are cultivating paddy using vermicompost, and practising dairy farming.
Hydroponic farming: Why soil-free agriculture might be the way forwardedit
Research has put the market value of hydroponics at $8.08 bn in 2019, prompting entrepreneurs to believe that soil-free agriculture might be the way forward. Think farming and cultivation and even your mind pictures flat expanses of open land pulsating with life — fresh harvest of rice, wheat, paddy or vegetables.
Is Zero Budget Natural Farming the way ahead?edit
Andhra Pradesh plans to convert its farmers and farming to a modified version of what Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned in the course of her budget speech on July 5—Zero Budget Natural Farming. The southern agriculture state has named it Climate Resilient Zero Budget Natural Farming (CRZBNF), inspired by the farming techniques promoted by Subhash Palekar, who was awarded Padma Shri by the Modi government in 2016.