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Agriculture Industry
The Plan is to Power the Entire Agriculture Sector With Solar: RK Singh at RE-Investedit
Saur Energy – Online
Agro-PV offers an opportunity to enable the achievement of both sustainable agriculture and clean energy transitions. Decentralised and distributed renewable energy solutions including solar-powered irrigation can significantly contribute towards decarbonising electricity generation without any additional investment in transmission infrastructure. However, India’s plan is to rapidly take forward the idea of solarising its agricultural sector, and not just stop at providing solar pumps to farmers but moving forward to agricultural feeders, and then the entire value chain.
During the session, ‘Solarizing Agriculture: Cultivating Renewable Energy in India’s Farmlands’ at the ongoing 3rd RE-Invest conference, the flagship event of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Talk to the farmeredit
The Indian Express – Online
Economic reforms in India have often been by stealth. This is because they have been pushed mostly by minority governments. The three central farm laws, by contrast, have been enacted by a regime enjoying a comfortable majority under an unquestioned leader. This government was, however, clearly caught off guard by the protests mounted by farmer organisations. True, these have been largely by farmers from Punjab and Haryana. But most farmer movements in the past — whether Champaran, Kheda and Bardoli or Mahendra Singh Tikait’s Boat Club rallies — were localised affairs. The Narendra Modi government erred in first projecting the agitation as purely Opposition-sponsored and then in using force — from making preventive arrests ...
Technology in Agriculture
5 Agri-Tech companies helping in minimizing food wastage and bringing sustainability in supply chainedit
News Patrolling – Online
India is an agriculture based country with almost 119 million farmers which accounts for more than half of its population. Agriculture being the primary source of income in the country, the farming community is one of the worst hit due to the pandemic, with issues like severe disruptions in the trade finance, farm produce- supply chain and closing down of the local mandis, markets, and transport facilities.
We have curated the list of 5 Agri-tech platforms which are helping the farmers to connect with the buyers, through retailers, ecommerce, and even by directly selling the produce to consumers and keep the supply chain functional throughout the pandemic and now on the path of recovery.
Indian Institute of Spices Research inks several pacts to share agri technologiesedit
The Hindu Business Line – Online
The institute will share three of their technologies with the Centre of Excellence Maddur for Precision Farming under the Karnataka Horticulture Department. Another MoU was inked with a Telangana-based entrepreneur for commercialisation of IISR Pragathi, a widely cultivated turmeric variety developed by IISR.
Essential micro-nutrientsThe Centre of Excellence for Precision Farming has inked three separate MoUs with the IISR for obtaining license for producing micro-nutrients for plant growth and health. They have acquired the license for the production of micro-nutrients for black pepper, turmeric and ginger. Micro-nutrients are a proven technology to enhance the productivity of spices, especially to overcome the soil fatigue. “Technology licensing helps in reaching out to more farmers with ...
New Holland Agriculture, a brand of CNH Industrial and one of the world’s leading agriculture equipment brands, has delivered the second BigBaler 890Plus – large square baler along with T6070 tractor to Farm2Energy, India’s largest biomass aggregator. This new equipment was delivered to Farm2Energy’s founder Sukhbir Singh Dhaliwal and his team at their company’s premises in Bija village, in Ludhiana District, Punjab. To enable the use of surplus crop residue for energy generation, rather than burning it in the field, New Holland Agriculture offers a complete range of equipment for harvesting, collecting and transporting biomass.edit
YourStory – Online
INI Farms began in 2003 as INI Consulting, an agro consulting firm that advised international agribusinesses on their India market strategies. While working on a client project, co-founders and husband-wife duo Pankaj and Purnima Khandelwal got initiated into horticulture. That piqued their interest in farming, and they decided to change course in 2009. Thus was born INI Farms, an integrated end-to-end agritech startup that moves non-seasonal fruits from ‘farm to table’. It owns and controls the entire supply chain — from sourcing (directly from farmers) to sorting and grading to packaging, branding, and exporting to 35 international markets.
Stubble Burning
Stubble burning: New Holland Agriculture strengthens equipment range of biomass aggregatoredit
Rural Marketing – Online
New Holland Agriculture, a brand of CNH Industrial and one of the world’s leading agriculture equipment brands, has delivered the second BigBaler 890Plus – large square baler along with T6070 tractor to Farm2Energy, India’s largest biomass aggregator. This new equipment was delivered to Farm2Energy’s founder Sukhbir Singh Dhaliwal and his team at their company’s premises in Bija village, in Ludhiana District, Punjab.
To enable the use of surplus crop residue for energy generation, rather than burning it in the field, New Holland Agriculture offers a complete range of equipment for harvesting, collecting and transporting biomass.
Uttar Pradesh: Bio-fuel plants in 7 districts to curb stubble burningedit
The Times Of India – Online
The state steering committee approved a budget of Rs 22.56 crore for setting up bio-fuel plants in seven districts — Meerut, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Hapur and Muzaffarnagar — in the national capital region (NCR) for productive use of crop residue and treatment of other bio-degradable waste to address the issue of stubble burning and air pollution.
The steering committee headed by chief secretary RK Tiwari held a meeting on Thursday for consideration and approval of the projects as well as their implementation and monitoring under National Adoption Fund on Climate Change and decided to implement orders of the National Green Tribunal on Climate Resilience Building in Rural Areas Through Crop Residue ...
Stubble burning: India Inc pitches in to solve the recurring issue in North Indiaedit
The Hindu Business Line – Online
As Northern India gets shrouded in smog clouds in yet another winter season, the spotlight is back on the issue of stubble burning. To tackle this complicated issue, extending a helping hand are the FMCG and food processing companies by working closely with farmers, especially in the States of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan on sustainable farming practices.
PepsiCo India said that as part of its Sustainable Farming Programme, which was initiated in 2016, it developed training modules and training sessions with agronomists in Punjab. These agronomists conducted hundreds of training sessions with farmers in the State to create awareness on alternates to stubble burning and helping them prepare for potato cropping in 2019-20.
ICAR stubble burning solution shows promising results at trials in Delhi, Punjabedit
Hindustan Times – Online
A proprietary microbial solution developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) could be a breakthrough in the hunt for a solution to crop-residue burning, a major cause of winter pollution in north India, results from trials in Delhi and Punjab show
“The ICAR’s invention, named Pusa, decomposes crop residue, including paddy straw, and turns it into manure in about 25 days, thus eliminating the need to burn paddy stubble. It could be a breakthrough if adopted with an integrated approach,” YV Singh, principal scientist of microbiology at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), an affiliate institution of the ICAR which developed the solution, told HT.
Singh said the technology had an efficacy range of 70%-80%, citing results ...