Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
How can Agritechs and FPOs build a bridge between Agribusiness corp and small farmers?edit
The primary and persistent problem of the Food and Agriculture sector in India is the inefficiency caused due to the information asymmetry that exists at various levels. While on the buyer’s end there exists an uncertainty of what quality produce they will be getting for the price being paid; on the farmer’s end, he/she is worried about the price they will be getting for the cultivated crop sold. Both of these insecurities make the entire Agri supply chain to be more worried about supply-demand matching at the lowest price leading to a suboptimal efficiency. The focus should rather be on predictable and quality-based pricing of produce. The question is, how do we get there?
Can augmenting rural sector revive the economy?edit
COVID-19 has created an extraordinary situation where both demand and supply curves have been deeply supressed simultaneously. The economy contracted by 23.9 percent in the quarter ending June. The agriculture sector stood-out as an exception which grew by 3.4 percent during the same period. While agriculture can be at the core of revival, economic growth needs to be propelled by the overall rural economy.
Technology in Agriculture
Khet to Kirana could be the Future of Agritech for Farmers & Consumersedit
The middle-class is driving the consumption and there is a growing concern of food hygiene, nutrition, and sustainability so, it will increase the awareness about labels and food hygiene, according to the recent report by Omnivore: Vision 2030.
Over 90 percent of Kirana stores across the country will be digitized by 2025 and be linked to modern traceable logistics which will further benefit the transparency of the supply chain between the farmer and consumer.
Smart Agriculture Can Make You Rich: Know How?edit
Meet Pramod Gautam, a car engineer who shifted to farming in 2006, and now earns a yearly turnover of a crore, subsequent to actualizing a fundamentally extraordinary strategy for development.
In 2006, in the wake of feeling unsatisfied in his activity as an automobile engineer, Pramod abandoned engineering and chose to offer to cultivate a sincere chance on his 26-acre of ancestral land.
Agribazaar plans to scale up agriculture input business, to sell farm equipment from Decemberedit
Founded in 2016, Agribazaar, which delivers technology-enabled solutions to over 2 lakh farmers now by helping them get better prices, has since the past month has hired 200 of the 350 planned hiring this year, even amid the lockdowns and massive retrenchments in almost all sectors of the economy.
Why farm reform will fail without techedit
Kamlakant is a smallholder farmer in Daulatiyapur village of Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh. He is an enthusiastic vegetable cultivator and every season, he searches for answers to three basic questions—what crop to sow, how to grow it, and where to sell it.
The nearest Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) is 50km away, and he is thus unable to travel that distance to access information. He is dependent on a local farm consultant who visits his farm every week and charges ₹100 per visit. Ever since covid hit, the consultant has stopped visiting. He began to rely on WhatsApp to seek advice throughout the lockdown, harvesting 6 tonnes of brinjal and 9 tonnes of cauliflower on one acre, ...
‘Technology intervention must for farm development’edit
The rising scarcity of farm workers makes it evident that farmers have to go in for technology intervention in farming, according to Somashekara Bhat, Associate Director, Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).
Delivering the presidential address at the inauguration of an online workshop on ‘Design of knowledge-based systems using AI and machine learning models in the context of agricultural and food products’, he said that the focus on agriculture sector has slightly reduced in the recent years. Unless the country takes care of this aspect, it may go further down.
Govt. Policies
Can augmenting rural sector revive the economy?edit
COVID-19 has created an extraordinary situation where both demand and supply curves have been deeply supressed simultaneously. The economy contracted by 23.9 percent in the quarter ending June. The agriculture sector stood-out as an exception which grew by 3.4 percent during the same period. While agriculture can be at the core of revival, economic growth needs to be propelled by the overall rural economy.
PM Modi says those fearing losing control of agriculture sector are misleading farmersedit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that some people are fearing losing control in the agriculture sector after three key farm bills were passed in the Parliament for the betterment of country’s farmers. Speaking at the stone laying ceremony of various developmental projects in poll-bound Bihar, PM Modi took a dig at the opposition saying those who are trying to mislead the farmers are fearing losing control of the agriculture industry.
Stubble Burning
Why Punjab needs a thrust for start-ups to deal with stubble burningedit
Punjab ranks among India’s Covid-stressed states. In about a week, stubble burning will begin in Punjab and jostle for space with Covid headlines. Stubble burning in Punjab has caused gas chamber-like conditions in the National Capital Region in the last few years.
Punjab Energy Development Authority (PEDA) is setting up projects to produce bio CNG from paddy stubble. Even after the commissioning of all these projects by 2022, Punjab will be able to utilise only 1.5 million tonnes, which is only 7 per cent of the total paddy stubble.