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Agriculture Industry
Farmers say doing away with fire has improved wheat yieldedit
For the third year in a row, Gurjeet Singh and Gurjinder Singh, two small farmers in Allahditta village of Kapurthala district’s Sultanpur Lodhi subdivision, have not burnt any parali (paddy stubble) in their fields.
The alternative stubble management technique they employ isn’t prohibitively expensive, and the farmers say their yields of wheat have improved. In fact, Allahditta and the neighbouring village of Ahmadpur Chhanna have reported no farm fires this stubble-burning season.
Weather report: Southwest monsoon withdraws country, makes way to northeast monsoonedit
Southwest monsoon winds, which has brought the rains in the state have started withdrawing on Monday. The meteorological department has said that Southwest monsoon winds are expected to cross the country on the 28th of this month. At the same time, northeastern monsoon winds formed at the level of the lower troposphere over the Bay of Bengal and southern peninsular India, which would bring rain to south India during the winter to help farmers grow rabi crops.
Re-imaging agriculture through the lens of food processing industryedit
The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the criticality of food security and food surplus management in the current policy space. To this end, policy steps in agriculture sector in recent years have shifted their orientation from sustenance to marketing. However, the sector is still exposed to challenges of post-harvest management (PHM), poor price discovery and inadequate market access for farmers. Lack of PHM, in particular, has led to significant post-harvest losses of 4-6-15.8% in fruits and vegetables, 10.5% in marine fisheries and 6.7% in poultry (ICAR-CIPHET, 2015). While significant progress has been made in building individual cold storage facilities, their lack of geographical spread persists as also their tardy upgradation into integrated multi-commodity hubs.
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India Grabs A Chance To Enter Profitable Farming With Hebbevu Agro-Realtyedit
India is appreciating the newfound ease with which it can access farmland and indulge in organic farming. Besides being a golden opportunity for small-time investors, this change is also creating a highly profitable business opportunity for regular customers, who don’t have access to significant capital but who are looking to move away from the hustle & bustle of city life. The organic farming company, Hebbevu Agro-Realty, is showing people the way forward in this direction, at an affordable price. Within a short time, this firm, run by brothers, Amith and Ashrith Kishan, former bankers, has gained the trust of the public and has become one of the most loved & trusted brands in organic farming.
Dairy Farming
India’s dairy farmers have become a big hurdle for trade deals with US, EUedit
India’s effort to wrap up bilateral trade deals with major economies after pulling out of a China-backed regional pact has hit a major stumbling block — its dairy industry.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is hesitant to allow free access of dairy products from several countries, including the U.S., the EU and the U.K., due to strong opposition from politically-influential dairy farmers, according to people familiar with the situation.
Stubble Burning
Stubble Burning: A Historical Environmental Issue.edit
Stubble is the left over after harvesting any grain or hay crop. Stubble Burning is the elimination of such crop residue by the usage of fire. In Indian context, stubble burning coming into attention every year in the months of October and November is because in northern states, especially Punjab, Haryana (both of which include parts of the National Capital Region) and Uttar Pradesh, farmers burn stubbles of mainly rice and wheat harvest as the time between harvesting these crops and sowing the crops for the next season is very less. The primary implication of this as such, becomes the effect it levies a boost to the already worsening air pollution situation of the Capital and ...