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Agriculture Industry
Punjab Agricultural University’s ‘fitting solutions’ to paddy crop residue burningedit
Punjab Agricultural University In Ludhiana Has Recommended/Developed Machines To Help Farmers Manage Paddy Straw, Tell Mahesh Narang, Manjeet Singh And S S Thakur From Department Of Farm Machinery & Power Of The University To TOI’s Ikhhlaq Singh Aulja
IFFCO empowers youth with Oracle chatbot, AI-driven Cloudedit
With over 35,000 cooperative societies under its umbrella, the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) is generating massive amount of data that needs to be analysed, parsed and used for predictive maintenance at its plants and enhance the productivity of nearly five crore farmers. At the forefront of technology adoption in the Indian agriculture space, IFFCO along with Cloud major Oracle is trying to take the benefits of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to farmers – bet it voice-enabled chatbot, user-friendly portals or Oracle Autonomous Database for analysing data.
Competition
Jaguar 990, the powerhouse of a Terra Trac forage harvesteredit
Claas pushes the limits of its range of forage harvesters and releases a new model of 925 hp, the Jaguar 990 . Powered by a 24-liter V12 Man engine , it comes to dominate the Jaguar 980 with a power of 850 hp. Both machines are available in Terra trac version, thatis to say that crawler trains replace the front wheels.
Moisture management matters: New Holland’s Specialty Crop Plus round baler does the trickedit
New Holland is out with its Roll-Belt 560 Specialty Crop Plus round baler, and it’s packed with features to keep farmers…rolling. Speaking to RealAgriculture’s Bern Tobin at the Farm Progress Show, was George Rigdon, New Holland’s product marketing manager.
Technology in Agriculture
Farm loan waivers encourage defaults and add to non-performing assets, says RBI reportedit
In six years to 2019-’20, a total of 10 states have announced farm loan waivers totalling Rs 2.4 lakh crore – which amounts to four times the 2019-’20 budget for the rural jobs programme, or 9% of the 2019-’20 Union budget – as per a September report on agricultural credit by the Reserve Bank of India.
IFFCO empowers youth with Oracle chatbot, AI-driven Cloudedit
With over 35,000 cooperative societies under its umbrella, the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) is generating massive amount of data that needs to be analysed, parsed and used for predictive maintenance at its plants and enhance the productivity of nearly five crore farmers. At the forefront of technology adoption in the Indian agriculture space, IFFCO along with Cloud major Oracle is trying to take the benefits of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to farmers – bet it voice-enabled chatbot, user-friendly portals or Oracle Autonomous Database for analysing data.
Govt. Policies
Farm loan waivers encourage defaults and add to non-performing assets, says RBI reportedit
In six years to 2019-’20, a total of 10 states have announced farm loan waivers totalling Rs 2.4 lakh crore – which amounts to four times the 2019-’20 budget for the rural jobs programme, or 9% of the 2019-’20 Union budget – as per a September report on agricultural credit by the Reserve Bank of India.
Stubble Burning
Karnal tops in defying stubble burning banedit
Farmers of Karnal district are leading the list of the offenders who are defying the ban on stubble burning in the state. According to the Agriculture Department, 42 per cent stubble burning cases in the state are from Karnal, where the area under paddy is 1.7 lakh hectares. The district produces 10 lakh MT paddy yearly.
Administration launches drive to check stubble burningedit
The administration has launched coordinated movement to check burning of stubble during ensuing paddy harvesting season in the region. While nodal officers have been deployed at each paddy-growing village for identifying violators, social activists, Guardians of Governance (GOGs) and lambardars have been asked to persuade farmers to shun the practice of stubble burning.