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Agriculture Industry
The Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce Lawedit
Continuing with the introduction to the three new farm laws passed recently, this week the Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 is being taken up. Read on to understand the provisions and likely benefits of this new law.
Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 aims to provide
Creation of an ecosystem where the farmers and traders enjoy the freedom of choice relating to sale and purchase of farmer’s produce which facilitates remunerative prices through competitive alternative trading channels To promote efficient, transparent and barrier-free inter-State and intra-State trade and commerce of farmer’s produce outside the physical premises of markets or deemed markets notified under various State agricultural produce market ...Alphabet is trialing solar-paneled, robotic buggies to inspect farm cropsedit
Tech giant Alphabet’s so-called “moonshot factory” — also known as X — has shared details about a project that’s aiming to transform agriculture and food production using technologies including robotics, software and satellite imagery.
The initiative has been in development for a while now, but this week saw X reveal its name, Mineral, and more details about how it works. Its broad focus is on something called “computational agriculture.”
In a blog post on Monday, project lead Elliot Grant described that term as referring to “farmers, breeders, agronomists and scientists” leaning on “new types of hardware, software, and sensors to collect and analyze information about the complexity of the plant world.”
Straw management: Adopt technologies developed by agri varsity, farmers toldedit
Expressing his views during a virtual seminar on “Rice residue management methodologies and their application”, Dr Jaskarn Singh Mahal, Director, Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), urged farmers not to indulge in stubble burning as it leads environmental pollution.
He advised the farmers to adopt PAU-developed straw management technologies and use farm machinery on custom-hiring basis or seek the help of ccooperative societies and farmers’ organisations in this regard.Could fungus help stop stubble burning and reduce pollution in North India?edit
Could a tiny capsule filled with fungus, some jaggery and gram flour mixed in water help partially solve North India’s pollution problem?
Every year around the months of October and November, farmers in states like Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh burn the stubble that is left after harvesting the paddy crop in order to prepare the soil to sow the next crop, which is usually wheat. The burning of vast fields in these states, along with the falling temperatures and decreased wind speed, contributes to air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic plains and particularly in the landlocked national capital, Delhi.
Milma to push paddy cultivationedit
The Ernakulam Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union has decided to encourage paddy cultivation in a big way, as it joins the Subhiksha Keralam programme to achieve self-sufficiency in food production.
To mark the launch of efforts to take over fallow land and bring it under rice cultivation, the Poothrikka Primary Cooperative Milk Producers Union has taken up cultivation of 2.5 acres of paddy field at the Vallikkatuthazham paddy collective, said John Theruvath, chairman of the Ernakulam region.