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Agriculture Industry
Good News! Centre allows ICRISAT to use Drones for Agricultural Researchedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The Central Government has been focusing to improve agriculture sector and for this it is continuously taking steps to improve research, pests control and crop yield. The government has also given unconditional exemption for deployment of drones to the International Semi-Arid Tropical Crop Research Institute (ICRIST) Hyderabad, Telangana for activities in the agricultural research by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). But with certain conditions, this rebate will be given only for 6 months.
The unmanned aircraft are actually called Drones, and are equipped with many features including sending and receiving data and high quality camera for video recording.
New dimensions being added to agriculture and allied things in India: PM Modiedit
Newstrack Live – Online
PM Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed the countrymen through his monthly radio program ‘Mann Ki Baat’. In this special program, PM Modi also expressed his opinion about agricultural law. He explained how the new agricultural law has opened doors to new possibilities for farmers. PM Modi said that the farmers are getting a lot of benefits from the agricultural law and the farmers are getting their rights. PM Modi said, “New dimensions are being added in India with agriculture and allied things. Agricultural reforms earlier have also opened doors to new possibilities for farmers. These rights have started reducing the problems of farmers in a very short time.”
Agriculture officials told to recover money from ineligible farmersedit
The Hindu – Online
The Department of Agriculture has the task of recovering money paid to hundreds of ineligible farmers under Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi. Under this scheme, launched in December 2018, farmers get ₹6,000 annually in three instalments.
Of the total 55.88 lakh beneficiaries, 85,206 farmers have turned out to be ineligible. In Hassan district alone, 3,872 ineligible farmers have received the payment. Many of them have got six instalments of ₹2,000 each. The Ministry of Agriculture has sent the list of ineligible beneficiaries to the respective districts. The officers have been told to recover the amount paid so far to them.
Collective push can help farmers hold firmedit
Tribune – Online
A spectacular shift occurred in agriculture in the late 1960s, of which Punjab was the epicentre. In tune with the national slogan ‘grow more food’ and driven by higher productivity and profitability, farmers were encouraged to invest more and more to meet the input needs as well as inflated expectations. The trend continued unabated even after the symptoms of the withering of the Green Revolution started appearing, primarily due to mono-cropping, fast depletion of natural resources and consistently reducing profitability. Hefty increase in input costs of materials has led to a decline in the farm income over the years, notwithstanding the increase in the farm output. The report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income, under the ...
Agricultural reforms had unshackled farmers : PMedit
United News of India – Online
Even as the ongoing farmers agitation continues to paralyze law and order machinery, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that new dimensions were being added to agriculture and its related activities and the agricultural reforms announced by the government had not only unshackled farmers but also given them new rights and opportunities.
Speaking in his ‘Mann ki Baat’’ programme the Prime Minister said agricultural reforms in the past few days had opened new doors of
possibilities for farmers and the demands made by them for years, that every political party at some point made the promise to fulfill, had been met.
Stubble Burning
Government working on all fronts to mitigate Air Pollution: Prakash Javadekaredit
Orrisadiary – Online
Minister for Environment, Forest and climate Change Shri Prakash Javadekar has said, the Central Government has been working constantly on all the frontstowards mitigation of Air Pollution.
Expressing concern over the pollution level in the northern parts of the country especially national capital Delhi, the Minister said that the government is working towards abatement of Air Pollution by working at the source level, be itindustries orthermal power stations, vehicular pollution, construction and demolition waste or stubble burning, which are the major sources of pollution generation. He said, the government will continue to strive hard to bring an end to the issue of Air pollution and encourages all possible technological interventions in this regard.
Prime Minister lauds farmer’s stubble-management measuresedit
The Tribune – Online
Australia-returned farmer Virender Yadav (32) of Faras Majra village in Kaithal district is on cloud nine after Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared his story of earning money from stubble management while addressing the nation in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann ki Baat’ on Sunday.
Yadav has been receiving greetings from people as well as officials of Kaithal and surrounding districts. Kaithal Deputy Commissioner Sujan Singh as well as Deputy Director Agriculture, Kaithal, Karam Chand lauded his efforts.
At a time when people are struggling due to air pollution partly due to stubble burning, Yadav has set an example by making money by selling stubble to agro energy plant and paper mill.
Yadav had never imagined that ...
ON ‘MANN KI BAAT’, PM MODI SHARES STORY OF HARYANA FARMER WHO SELLS STUBBLE TO EARN MONEYedit
News Live – Online
At a time when Delhi’s air pollution levels have spiked due to stubble burning in neighbouring states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday shared the story of a farmer from Haryana who is making money by selling stubble to agro energy plant and paper mill.
“Virendra Yadav ji used to live in Australia. Two years ago, he came to India and now lives in Haryana’s Kaithal. Like others, farm stubble was a big problem for him also. Efforts are being made on a large scale to resolve the issue. To find a solution to stubble, Virendra ji bought a Straw Baler machine to make bundles of straw. For this, he also received financial assistance from the ...
Tractor industry
Sonalika continues to outpace tractor industry billing growth, records highest ever deliveries with 19,000 tractors and 10,018 Rotavators in October’20edit
Orrisadiary – Online
On the back of unprecedented growth experienced in the first half of the current fiscal, Sonalika Tractors, one of India’s leading tractor manufacturer and the No.1 Exports brand from India, has clocked a record deliveries of 19,000 tractors in a month and 15,218 in production in Oct 2020 – Highest ever done by the company in a month. Mr. Raman Mittal, Executive Director, Sonalika Group, said, “Our strategy to offer farming solutions specific to the needs of the farmers as per their crop and geography has got us an overwhelming response.“We have created magnificent history together by delivering 19,000 Sonalika Tractors and 10,018 Rotavators, making it highest ever retail across India in October’20, the beginning of festive ...Omega Seiki plans to launch electric tractor, cargo pick-up truck as part of expansion planedit
Outlook – Online
Omega Seiki Mobility aims to bring in multiple electric products including two-wheelers, a four-wheeler cargo vehicle and a tractor over the next two years, as per a top company official.
The company, which is a part of the Delhi-based Anglian Omega Group, also aims to set up manufacturing facilities across various parts of the country.
Omega Seiki already has multiple manufacturing sites in Delhi/NCR.
The company also plans to have around 200 dealerships across the country by the end of next year.
It has earmarked an initial investment of Rs 200 crore for the projects and going ahead aims to raise another Rs 1,000 crore in order to fund the expansion plans.
“We are going to have ...