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Extreme heat, drought make crops more vulnerable to soil-borne diseases: Studyedit
High temperatures and drought-like conditions caused the pathogenic fungus Pythium ultimum to flourish in soils, in turn leading to death of agricultural crop seedlings, a recent study found.
The research added to growing scientific evidence that climate change is severely affecting agricultural productivity around the world. With rising extreme weather events, heat and water stress and poor adaptation policies, the effects will only get worse in the future.
An international team of scientists used soils from different climatic locations in Europe to assess the resistance ability of different soil types. Samples were collected from cool and damp Scotland, temperate northeast Germany and dry and warm eastern Hungary.
India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural developmentedit
While everyone has been focusing on the Narendra Modi government’s budgetary allocations to agriculture, its location in the Budget has just as much to tell us about how limited the understanding of the problems and possibilities of Indian agriculture has actually become.
Fishing, agriculture impacted by burning river in Upper Assam: Residentsedit
A four-day fire on the Burhi Dihing, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, at Pandharaghat village, 450 kilometres east of Guwahati, has affected fishing and farming, locals said. The riverine ecosystem in the region enables fishing and farming of food grains.
The area is part of ‘rice bowl’ Sasoni, a region that encompasses the Dibrugarh and Sivasagar districts of Upper Assam. Comprising 85 villages, Sasoni is crisscrossed by oil pipelines and small rivulets that join the Burhi Dihing, which then flows into the Brahmaputra.
On the morning of January 28, 2020, the central tank farm (CTF) of public-sector Oil India Ltd (OIL) shut off all inlets from various oil wells, or outlets, in the region. Within a ...
Urgent need to increase food production: Niranjan Reddyedit
There is a urgent need to focus on increasing food production and productivity in agriculture sector in the wake of increasing population and availability of limited natural resources such as land and water across the world, said Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy. He wanted agricultural scientists to integrate usage of digital technology in agriculture for improving productivity.
Addressing the Digital Age India Conference held here on Tuesday, Niranjan Reddy said the agriculture sector had reached the present stage after overcoming many challenges, and there was a greater need to bring another green revolution through integration of technology.
Hyderabad: Minister Niranjan Reddy pitches for radical changes in farming methodsedit
Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy has called for revolutionary changes in the agriculture sector, existing practices, rural economy and management of natural resources to face the challenges of the food shortage in future.
Addressing at Digital AG India conference here on Tuesday, the Minister said that new innovations in the agriculture and food sectors are the need of the hour.
Reminding the call given by the United Nations for achieving a stable food secured world by 2030 by bringing revolutionary changes in the food security, he said the world population would cross 9.6 billion by 2050. There will be a huge demand for food but the natural resources like water and land are also scarce.
Budget
Budget Allocation For PM-KISAN Set At Rs 75,000 Crore As Govt Allocates 30 Per Cent Higher Fund For Agricultureedit
With focus on the agriculture sector in the country, the Centre has provided higher budget allocation for agriculture and its allied activities as well as to the food and food processing sector for the financial year 2020-21, reports Economic Times.
According to the report, the fund allocated for the agriculture and farmers welfare ministry has increased by 30 per cent to Rs 1,42,761.58 crore as against the revised estimate of Rs 1,09,750.17 crore for the ongoing financial year.
Budget 2020: Modi Government allocates 30 per cent higher funds for the agriculture sectoredit
To give a boost to the agriculture sector in the country, the Modi government in its 2020 budget has aimed to provide a higher budget allocation for agriculture and its allied activities as well as to the food and food processing sector for the financial year 2020-21, reports Economic Times.
According to the report, the government has provided a 30 per cent increase in fund allocation at Rs 1,42,761.58 Crore for the next fiscal for agriculture and farmer welfare than Rs 1,09,750.17 Crore for the ongoing financial year.
Companies see Budget 2020 farm, infra push helping commercial vehicle salesedit
The Union Budget will perk up commercial vehicle (CV) sales held up by a slowing economy and transporters saddled with surplus capacity, said industry representatives as companies reported their latest figures.
Tata Motors’ sales in domestic commercial vehicle sale dropped by 15 per cent in January 2020 to 31,348 from 37,089 in January 2019. The company’s Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles (M&HCV) saw a 41 per cent drop to 6,914 units from 11,694 units a year ago. Total domestic CV sales dropped by 26 per cent to 279,947 units from 378,664 units, a year ago. M&HCV sales dropped by 46 per cent to 67,145 units from 12,33,41 units, a year ago.
With boost for agri, industry positive about impact of Union Budget 2020edit
The Union Budget for fiscal 2020-21 appears to have hit the right notes for the agriculture sector with the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing slew of measures that will ensure never-before growth of the sector. Overall a 16-point agenda has been set for the agriculture sector from providing credits to warehousing and transportation of the perishables through air route.
The experts have also reacted positively to these announcements. President of All India Food Processors’ Association (AIFPA), Dr S Jindal, welcomed the Budget announcements and called the Budget beneficial for the agriculture sector and rural economy.
Technology in Agriculture
Agri-tech startup uses data analytics to solve various farming issuesedit
Farming has always been part of India’s economic identity. In this year’s Union Budget, the government has provided 30 per cent increase in funds at Rs 1.42 lakh crore for agriculture and farmers’ welfare ministry. With sparkling growth in the field of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), several startups have now ventured to use such techs to sow seeds of growth in agriculture. After all, data has proven to be the ‘new oil’ of this century.
Digi tool Thriving on this tech is Pune-based startup, Shivrai Technologies, founded by entrepreneurs Sanjay Borkar and Santosh Shinde. The duo has developed ‘FarmERP’ – an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platform that helps ‘agribusinesses to collect, integrate and analyze huge ...