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Harvester Seas harvesting paddy without SMS machineedit
Sons, Bharua Sumerpur: Naib Tehsildar seized the paddy from the harvester without SMS machine on the DM’s instructions. Also said to follow the rules.
The administration has mandated harvesting of SMS machines with harvesters in paddy harvesting. On Thursday, a harvester machine from Punjab in Teheda village was engaged in harvesting paddy of farmers without SMS. The administration got its inkling. Naib Tehsildar Pramit Sachan, who reached the village on the instructions of DM Dnyaneshwar Tripathi, has seized the machine engaged in paddy harvesting. The farmer in Harvester village is walking in the farm of Bardani Kushwaha. Harvester is seized and handed over to the police. The police have taken the harvester and made it stand in the factory area police post.
Southern Rly. transports 100 harvester machinesedit
As many as 100 harvester machines transported by the Business Development Unit of the Southern Railway from Chinna Salem to Surathkal reached here on Thursday.
Loaded on 32 wagons, the train had left Chinna Salem on October 21, a Southern Railway release said. Recently, it transported over 80 harvester machines, loaded on 32 wagons, from Chinna Salem to Nalgonda in Telangana.
Overcoming all odds caused by the COVID-19 situation, Southern Railway is transporting raw material and finished products which help traders, businessmen and farmers, it said.
Punjab to encourage farmers to switch to maize cultivation instead of less remunerative paddyedit
Punjab’s Agriculture Department has launched a campaign to bring 2 lakh hectares of land under maize cultivation up from the current 1.08 hectares. The department hopes that it will lead to production of 7,60,000 metric tonnes of maize.
The Punjab Agriculture Department has also launched a programme to compensate some farmers in paddy dependent districts who will switch over from paddy to maize. The department believes that this transformation would also help arrest the problem of burning paddy stubble said Dr J S Chawla, Principal Maize Breeder & In charge – Maize Section PAU while addressing farmers at the Kisan Goshthi on Cultivation of Maize in Punjab: Status, Challenges & Opportunities at the CII Agro & Food Tech 2020 organised over ...
Govt’s paddy procurement at MSP rises 28.5% to 11.66 mn tn within a monthedit
The government’s paddy procurement at the minimum support price (MSP) has risen 28.55 per cent to 116.66 lakh tonne in less than a month compared with the year-ago same period, with maximum grain been purchased from Punjab alone, according to the Union food ministry.
Paddy procurement commenced in Punjab and Haryana from September 26 due to early arrival of the crop, while in other states from October 1.
More than 80 per cent of the country’s paddy crop is grown in the kharif season. The government through Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state agencies undertakes procurement of paddy at MSP.
Air Pollution Problem Needs Political Solution for Crop Burningedit
It is that time of the year again when Delhi turns into a gas chamber and the smoke from Punjab reaches Delhi faster than the cries of the farmers. This time of the year brings with it the blame game between chief ministers of Delhi and Punjab.
In Punjab and Haryana, the paddy crop is usually harvested between the first and last week of October. The wheat crop is, then, sown from first week of November. Agriculture experts indicate, and research shows, that any delay in sowing wheat crop leads to poor produce. This gives the farmers a very short window of 15 days. These farmers regularly complain about the menace of rice straw – a product ...Coverage
CLAAS India launches next gen CROP TIGER TERRA TRAC combine harvesteredit
CLAAS India, a 100 percent subsidiary of German agri-machinery conglomerate CLAAS KGaA, virtually launched the next generation of CROP TIGER TERRA TRAC combine harvester. With its high standards of performance and durability, CROP TIGER has built up a faithful fan following in several overseas markets. Moreover, CLAAS India recently celebrated the sales milestone of crossing 10,000 CROP TIGER harvesters.
Launching the machine, Cathrina Claas-Muehlhaeuser, the chairwoman of CLAAS Shareholders Committee, said, “CROP TIGER has been a success story for CLAAS in India, based on strong fundamentals of German engineering and local adaptation. The next generation of CROP TIGER TERRA TRAC is loaded with many new features that offer enhanced durability, performance and operator comfort.”
Stubble Burning
Fighting pollution: Will there be fewer farm-fires this year?edit
The pandemic-induced economic lockdown this summer, followed by the monsoons, helped residents in cities across the Indo-Gangetic plain experience extended periods of clean air. Much of the increase in pollution levels since the lockdown ended is from local sources. According to an analysis by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), satellites have observed 9,000+ fires in the period between September 1 and October 20. Stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana contributes to ~20% of Delhi’s post-monsoon PM2.5 concentration. Given the increasing evidence of poor air quality exacerbating the burden of Covid-19, this year’s crop burning cycle assumes special significance.