Krishi Jagran

Now farmers will get affordable access to advanced technology at their doorsteps. During a National Conference on Crop Residue Management in New Delhi on Monday (9th September 2019), the Minister of State for Agriculture, Parshottam Rupala launched a multilingual Mobile Application called “CHC Farm Machinery”.

Krishi Jagran

In a shocking note, the Natural Academy of Agricultural Sciences, country’s top body of farm scientists, has criticized and dismissed  the idea of ‘zero-budget natural farming’, considering it an “unproven” technology, which claims to be the biggest announcement by the BJP government towards the agriculture sector in the recent Union Budget. Panjab Singh, president of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) said in front of media, “The government should not needlessly invest capital and human resources towards promoting ZBNF (Zero Budget Natural Farming). We have given our recommendations in writing to the Prime Minister and it reflects the view held by the scientific community”.

Down To Earth

Agriculture has been recognised as the core of the Union budget for the year 2019-20. The Government of India has planned to invest widely in agriculture infrastructure to provide assured income to small and marginal farmers. It has made Niti Aayog a national think tank to establish and conduct programmes and research on technologies of the future namely, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate the economic development of our country.