Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Pesticide sector hit by input issuesedit
The Hindu – Online
The Indian pesticide industry is heavily dependent on Chinese imports for raw materials, and could be heavily impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to an analysis prepared by the Agriculture Ministry.
India’s Bumper Wheat Crop Should be Giving Jitters to the Food Corporation of Indiaedit
The Week – Online
The Rabi crop of wheat will start arriving in India’s mandis in another three weeks. By the time we reach Baisakhi on April 13, the mandis will be flooded with wheat arrivals.
Climate crisis: Land is the keyedit
Hindustan Times – Online
A recent report by the Union ministry of earth sciences (MOES), Observed Rainfall Variability and Changes, has found that seven Indian states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland — have witnessed significant decreasing trends in annual rainfall in the last 30 years.
Dairy Farming
Punjab truly land of milk, tops the chartedit
The Tribune – Online
The average milk yield in Punjab increased by 50.14 percent between years 2012 and 2019, as per the figures of the livestock census 2019, Department of Animal Husbandry.
Technology in Agriculture
Student-led start-ups are expanding into all-new sectorsedit
Hindustan Times – Online
On campus, the term incubator usually has a specific meaning. It’s kind of a laboratory that is geared to nurture ideas for a tech-driven start-up. These typically work within the fields of education, finance, consumer services and tech. And startup accelerators ideally help students tap ideas in a sector experiencing a lot of demand and investor attention.
These urban farming startups are going the extra mile to bring organic food to your tableedit
Your Story – Online
The Green Revolution in the 50s and 60s may have allowed our farmers to better their yields, but it also brought with it the evils of using pesticides and chemical fertilisers.
Govt. Policies
Smaller vehicles for waste collection: Health deptedit
The Times of India – Online
The health department of the Cantonment Board, Deolali (CBD) has written to the board informing it of the need to have smaller ghantagadis that could enter the by-lanes of the eight wards to collect garbage.