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India-Taiwan Trade Prospects Look Promising In 2021: TAITRAedit
Technocodex – Online
The prospects for India-Taiwan bilateral trade, which was hit hard this year due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, look promising in 2021, according to the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA).
The overall restructuring of supply chains will give India a very unique place and attract many Taiwanese companies to invest in the country, TAITRA chairman James CF Huang said.
“Given the current context of the US-China trade war and disruption of the pandemic through global supply chains, we have to take into consideration not just cost but also the resilience of supply chains, national security as well as health of the people,” Huang told PTI.
To give the (unseen) woman farmer a land of her ownedit
Firstpost – Online
While farmers (mostly men, some women) from Punjab, Haryana and other parts of the country gather on the border of the national capital to protest against the newly-passed farm laws, there is another reality that lies behind the glare of mainstream TV debates and Twitter hashtags: the women farmers of Bundelkhand — who are still some distance away from the political centre, still out toiling in the fields, still waiting on past promises.
Bantwal: ‘Agriculture was active even during coronavirus pandemic’ – DVSedit
Daijiworld – Online
“Though most activities were stagnant during the Coronavirus pandemic, agriculture was active. Additional 36% fertilizer was sold. Fertilizer was made available also by cashless transactions. The subsidy has been credited directly to the bank accounts of the farmers,” said union minister of fertilizer D V Sadananda Gowda. He was speaking after distributing 30 laptops to science students of Kalladka first Grade College in a programme held in Madhukar auditorium, Kalladka Sri Rama institute by Indian Farmers Fertilizer cooperative Bengaluru and Sadasmitha Foundation Bengaluru on Saturday.
“More importance is being given to organic fertilizer and Nano fertilizer by IFFCO. Nano fertilizer is distributed among 13 thousand farmers in the country on an experimental basis.
Telangana farmers to get financial assistance under ”Rythu Bandhu” schemeedit
Outlook – Online
Over Rs 7,500 crore would be disbursed to 61.49 lakh farmers in the state Telangana under the TRS government”s ”Rythu Bandhu” financial assistance scheme from Monday, Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao said. A sum of Rs 7,515 crore would be given to 1.52 crore acres of cultivated lands of 61.49 lakh farmers at the rate of Rs 5,000 per acre for the 2020 summer season, he announced after a review meeting on the scheme. Rao instructed the officials concerned to ensure that every farmer gets the assistance in his bank account directly for each acre, a release from his office said. At the meeting, officials said farmers can sell their crop anywhere under the new farm laws ...
Technology in Agriculture
Varanasi farmers learn to use drones for seed plantationedit
Wion – Online
Farmers from the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh are now learning how to use drones to plant seeds in their farms.
A team of experts led by the Director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Ramesh Chand, recently visited the Khutahan village to demonstrate the use of drones during farming.
“The technology will help farmers reduce the cost of farming and increase their efficiency,” Cha
INI Farms becomes India’s First Horticulture Company to be recognised as a Great Place to Workedit
Indianeducationdiary – Online
INI Farms, India’s leading farm-to-home Ag-tech fruit brand has been recognised among India’s Best Workplace by the Great Place to Work® Institute. It is the first and only horticulture company in India to be certified by Great Place to Work® Institute.
INI Farms has earned this recognition based on a rigorous assessment independently conducted by Great Place to Work® Institute for creating a Great Place to Work for all employees. INI Farms is a mid-size organisation that has 200 employees and works with over 300 indirect workforce.
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Protest town: How supply chains sustaining farmersedit
Times of India – Online
t is now a month since the farmers started their protest against the three central government agriculture laws at Singhu border. The site where police burst teargas shells to prevent the progress of tractor-trolleys into Delhi on November 27 is now occupied by the stables of the Nihangs’ horses. With no signs of an early resolution to the stalemate, the farmers’ unions are using their members by turns, with new jathas arriving periodically with replenishments of food and vegetables and tonnes of firewood.
At the trolleys marked “relief supplies”, 70-year-old Sadhu Ram from Khedi Lamba village near Kaithal, Haryana, kept vigil. “The central government is wondering who is funding the protests. If they want to ...