Money Control

Every big tech company wants to solve problems native to India and its underserved communities. Amazon has seen opportunities of transforming agriculture and healthcare using cloud computing and frontier technology. Bringing technology into farming, Carlson thinks, will transform India. After all, 50 percent of the country’s employment comes from agriculture, but its contribution to the gross domestic product is only 17.32 percent. Technology can bring down the gap. Using precision farming and analysing that data is one way. “How do you make sure that the three seasons of crops you have throughout the year are the best in trading, that you get them out to market when they are fresh and ready, (and) how to use IoT, ...

The Times of India

Harvesting season for paddy is a month away and the scare of stubble burning is already weighing heavy on people’s minds. But farmers of many villages have decided to douse this burning problem. Majority of farmers in Rajaona Kalan, Rajaona Khurd, Atiana, Heeran, and some surrounding villages take pride in not burning stubble and saving soil and air from pollution. Farmers said integrating stubble into fields has led to increase in biomass inside it. “Also, the water-holding capacity of the soil increases, which dries up the field early in case of rains and prevents flooding. We spend around Rs 1,200 per acre by blending the stubble into soil and sowing the crop.

The Hans India

Lakhmir Rajput, Additional CEO regarding celebrations of 550th birth anniversary of the first Sikh master, Guru Nanak Dev, has taken cudgels by penning songs and poems in local dialect to spread awareness to check the burning of rice stubble, a common affair that chokes the whole of north during onset of winter, especially the national capital, with heavy smog cover. Also, in Punjab in recent years there has been an explosive upsurge of man-made calamities triggering a drug-infested killer blow to the mental ecology as well as socio-political fabric of this once exemplary state in India. Rajput is deeply rooted in his social conscience – albeit to a varying degree.

The Times of India

It’s an internship with a difference. Several groups of final year students from Goa’s only agriculture institution are now living in villages and using their college education to teach farmers new and advanced methods of agriculture aimed at boosting yield and increasing efficiency, while also gleaning practical wisdom from experienced traditional farmers . The ‘lab to land’ rural stay programme of the Don Bosco College of Agriculture in Sulcorna promises to be a path-breaking initiative in the field of rural agriculture in the state.

The Hans India

Civil Supplies department conducted a review meeting with its different internal departments at Assembly Committee hall here on Sunday. The meeting was attended by Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy, Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar, Chairman M Srinivas Reddy and Commissioner Akun Sabharwal. The meeting was held regarding the action plan needed for making enough grains purchase centres available to farmers all over the Telangana State.

Devdiscourse

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday underscored the need to introduce structural reforms to make agriculture profitable and sustainable. After presenting the “Rythu Nestham” awards at a function near here,Naidu urged the central and state governments to accord the highest priority to agriculture, education and healthcare sectors.

Krishi Jagran

n order to speed up payments under the PM Kisan Samaan Nidhi minimum income support scheme that provides an annual payout of Rs 6,000 to farmers in three equal instalments, the government has assigned common services centres (CSCs) to amend differences and update data of farmers registered for the scheme from Monday. The finance ministry had recently asked agriculture ministry to instantly release unpaid instalments by 30th of September, aiming to boost consumption demand in rural markets.