Down to Earth

With increasing population, urbanisation and contagious depletion of natural resources, there has to be a paradigm shift in farmer’s perception from production to productivity and to profitability. In this present scenario, the major challenge arising are shrinking land and depleting water and other related resources in agriculture. In this endeavor, precision farming aims to have efficient utilisation of resources per unit of time and area. Precision farming is a comprehensive information based farm management system to identify, analyse and manage variability within fields for optimum profitability, sustainability and protection of land resources.

The New Indian Express

Telangana Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy on Monday wrote to Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, requesting him to ensure supply of required urea to the State immediately. This will result in increase in the cultivable area of paddy and maize, which are fertiliser intensive crops, especially urea. Thus, the State requires adequate fertilisers, especially urea, to meet the demand

The Times of India

Team from agriculture department on Monday began survey of damaged crops in Kota region. The report of the same would be produced by Tuesday evening. The current spell of showers is believed to be fruitful and productive for the paddy crop but it can be harmful for urad and soybean.