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#Monsoon2020: This Monsoon Season, Stay updated with complete coverage on farming with Krishi Jagran through Helo Appedit
With the positive corona cases skyrocketing and climatic changes, India is going through a dark period. Even during such difficult times, our farmers are working tirelessly in their fields to feed the growing population in the country. The monsoon season is very important for the farmers. It is during the monsoon that the fields are irrigated and reservoirs are filled for irrigating crops during water scarcity.
#Monsoon 2020: Top Five Steps to Tackle Erratic Monsoon Patterns in Dry Regionsedit
The southwest monsoon has arrived in India and the farmers are hoping for nature to shower them with the best. In India, agriculture largely depends on the monsoon for the irrigation of the farms. If the pattern of the monsoon stands erratic or the rainfall gets irregular, then it could pose serious threats to the farming in India. However, IMD (India Meteorological Department), the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology in India, has predicted that the monsoon 2020 is going to be ‘normal’, we shouldn’t forget that these are just prediction and no one knows how the monsoon is going to turn out. Thereby, precautions are necessary for farmers farming in the dryland ...
Project SAFFAL: Safeguarding maize crops against Fall Armywormedit
Spodoptera frugiperda, aka Fall Armyworm (FAW) – a highly invasive pest with substantial appetite, landed on Indian soils for the first time in May 2018. The pest quickly became a nationwide nuisance. By the end of 2018, FAW spread across the major maize growing regions and emerged as a significant threat to Indian farmers and agriculture.
Agriculture Dept to double area under maizeedit
To promote crop diversification and save the depleting groundwater, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department is set to double the area under maize cultivation by encouraging farmers to shun the cultivation of the water-guzzling paddy crop.
The department has started providing quality maize seeds to the farmers and set the target of increasing the area under maize cultivation from 8,800 hectares to 16,500 hectares in the district.
Farmers are strong, not vulnerable; they need to be given choices, says Agriculture Secretaryedit
The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to at least 12 States allowing direct marketing of agriculture produce, which offered greater options to farmers during the lockdown, Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal says. The two new ordinances pushing agricultural marketing reform will widen choices for small farmers, he adds.
Cotton makes early gains in kharif acreageedit
Cotton is seen making early gains in the kharif sowing season 2020-21 as farmers in the North zone – consisting of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab – have brought more area under the fibre crop this year.
As on June 4, cotton acreage across the country was up 23 per cent at 16.69 lakh hectares as against 13.51 lakh ha in the same period last year, according to data released by the Agriculture Ministry.
In Rajasthan, cotton acreage has gone up by 83 per cent to 4.52 lakh ha, as on June 4, as against last year’s 2.46 lakh ha. In Punjab, it was up by 12.5 per cent at 4.5 lakh ha (4 lakh ha in ...
Unlocking the farmedit
With agriculture coming out relatively unscathed amidst the current economic carnage — retail fertiliser sales nearly doubled in May over last year, marking the seventh consecutive month of double-digit growth — the Narendra Modi government has done well to introduce long-delayed supply-side reforms in the sector. The ordinances issued last week to amend the Essential Commodities Act (ECA) and end the monopoly of agricultural produce market committee (APMC) mandis in farm products trading will send out a positive message. Agriculture’s value for policymakers has primarily been for controlling inflation or supplying wage goods and surplus labour for industrialisation and urbanisation. Few have viewed it as a sector in its own right and farmers as businessmen who must first earn ...
Madhya Pradesh surpasses Punjab in wheat procurementedit
Madhya Pradesh on Monday became the largest wheat-procuring state for the central pool during the 2020-21 Rabi marketing season after surpassing Punjab.
Data available with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) shows that as of June 6, Madhya Pradesh has procured 125.59 LMT wheat — 98.62 per cent of the total arrival of 127.34 LMT wheat in the state. Madhya Pradesh has contributed 33 per cent of the 386.54 lakh MT wheat procured in the country, the highest in its history.
Tractor makers explore rental route as agricultural economy growsedit
Tractor makers Mahindra, Tractors and Farm Equipment (Tafe) and Sonalika that have been struggling with customised hiring schemes are looking to cash in on rising demand as the migrant workforce scramble back to their homes in other states.
So far, 65-70% of the districts remain Covid-19 free, fuelling belief that agricultural activities will see an uptick.
Assam to set up 100 Farmers’ Producers Company for ramping up agricultural productionedit
Assam has decided to set up 100 Farmers’ Producers Company in the state for ramping up agricultural production, collection and ensuring linkage with the national and international markets.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today reviewed the functioning of agriculture department city and directed the Assam Seeds Corporation Limited to produce the seeds required by the state’s farmers in the state itself.
Dairy Farming
Want to Start Dairy Farm Business? Get Loan Up to 7 Lakh with 33% Subsidy from NABARDedit
After PM Modi’s call for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ amid the corona crisis, the government has focused more on agriculture and agri-business to turn the nation into a self-reliant economy. The centre has released huge fund and new opportunities for India’s dairy sector. Moreover, dairy farming is rapidly growing as the most demanding Agri-Business in India where the chances of loss is very less to the farmers. In addition to this, there are many new scientific methods as well as government schemes that have proved very beneficial for the farmers. In view of the growing demand for dairy and milk product, the government had launched the Dairy Entrepreneur Development Scheme (DEDS).
Technology in Agriculture
HPE CoE for IoT-based agriculture in Andhra Pradesh increases crop yields for local farmersedit
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that the HPE Center of Excellence (CoE) for IoT-based agriculture in Gudipalli, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, has generated significant benefits for local farmers by enabling them to increase crop yields, nutritional value, and revenue from their produce by applying technology. The CoE announced in July last year, was designed and implemented by HPE Pointnext Services Global Customer Solution Center, Bengaluru.
The CoE is focused on upskilling students in areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and programming to improve their employment prospects and also supports local farmers to help them achieve higher food production from finite land resources. As part of this initiative, students from nearby colleges have had the opportunity to ...
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Stubble burning: panel has begun work, Centre tells SCedit
Online – The Hindu
The Union government informed the Supreme Court on Friday that the new Commission to check stubble burning by farmers in the adjoining States of Delhi would start functioning this day.
“The Commission will start functioning from today [November 6] itself”, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed a three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde.
Chief Justice Bobde said, “There are many Commissions working, but at the end they have to be effective”.
The Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance of 2020 was promulgated by the Centre recently.