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Agriculture Industry
A 10-point policy prescription to make Indian agritech accessible to farmersedit
YourStory – Online
Indian agriculture needs to adapt innovations to become sustainable and profitable for farmers. There are multiple challenges facing Indian agriculture, including climate change, water stress, deterioration of soil health, price volatility, and farmer’s lack of motivation to continue farming. There are estimated about 150 million farmers in India with a majority of them (more than 85 percent) owning less than two hectares of farmland. A farmer with average land holding of about one hectare earns a gross income of about Rs 100,000 to meet his personal, family, and occupational needs.
A properly thought out resolution requires the untangling of many aspects of farm lawsedit
Indian Express – Online
In the two latest rounds of negotiations between the farmers’ organisations and the Centre, the change in the government’s attitude — reflected in the homage paid to the farmers who died during the protest, the conciliatory gesture on the stubble burning issue and the proposed electricity amendment bill — deserves to be welcomed. The government has also acknowledged flaws in the three farming laws and is offering to make amendments. However, a fundamental gulf exists between the government’s view that its suggested amendments will address these flaws, and the farmers’ view that the amendments do not change the faulty structure of these laws and, therefore, the laws themselves need to be repealed.
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Come out with agriculture produce procurement policy with crop-wise MSP in Union Budget 2021-22: Farmers to governmentedit
The Times of India – Online
A round table meeting attended by the farmers and representatives of their welfare associations, leaders from the Congress among other political parties on Sunday unanimously resolved to demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre come out with a “comprehensive agriculture produce procurement policy announcing crop-wise MSP with financial allocations to it” in the ensuing Union Budget to be presented on February 1. While demanding an unconditional repeal of the new farm laws which are detrimental to the interests of the farmers, the meeting also resolved to demand that the central and state governments immediately convene a special session of the Parliament and the state Assembly to discuss the problems being ...
‘Unless consumers demand food produced in ways good for the environment, farmers have little incentive to adopt technologies’edit
The Times of India – Online
How will agriculture change in the post-Covid world?
Covid-19 has highlighted opportunities for improved agri-food systems – digital extension systems, increased farm mechanisation, decentralised markets and improved farmgate procurement in addition to improved farmer-consumer connect and more efficient value chains. Without protection against the virus, agriculture will continue with less face to face contact. I hope the changes in agriculture will focus on areas exposed by the pandemic as these will also contribute to the long-term goals of sustainable development.
Reconstruction Agriculture: 10 Years after the Great East Japan Earthquakeedit
India Education Diary – Online
The Tohoku University Graduate School of Agriculture recently hosted a symposium, to provide evaluations and updates on its reconstruction projects in rural areas affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The lectures highlighted the work of the Tohoku Agricultural Science Center for Reconstruction (TASCR), which was set up in 2014 to develop interdisciplinary research on large-scale natural disasters and environmental deterioration. It has also run agriculture reconstruction education programmes and certified some 460 “Meisters,” many of whom currently work or volunteer on regional projects.
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Claas leader diesedit
Mcviortimes – Online
Helmut Claas was the second generation of family leadership for the eponymous Claas group, which under his leadership became an international farm machinery company across multiple crop harvesting categories.
He died at age 94 on January 5, 2021.
He was born in 1926 to August and Paula Claas, who owned and managed the family’s machinery company, which at the time had 100 employees. At the time of Helmut’s death, the company had more than 11,000 employees around the world.
CLAAS AXION 960 CEMOS is sustainableedit
Farm Weekly – Online
AN international jury of 26 specialist journalists has selected the CLAAS AXION 960 CEMOS as their Sustainable Tractor of the Year 2021.
For CLAAS, the award underlines the relevance and uniqueness of the CEMOS for Tractors dialog system.
Every year a jury of 26 agricultural journalists from 25 countries presents the Tractor of the Year awards.
Normally, the winners are awarded alternately every year at EIMA or Agritechnica.
Late last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award ceremony took place virtually for the first time and was streamed as a live broadcast.
As the winner in the Sustainable Tractor of the Year 2021 category, the CLAAS AXION 960 CEMOS ...
Helmut Claas, Farm Machinery Pioneer, Dies at Age 94edit
AgWeb – Online
Helmut Claas was the second generation of family leadership for the eponymous Claas group, which under his leadership became an international farm machinery company across multiple crop harvesting categories.
He died at age 94 on January 5, 2021.
He was born in 1926 to August and Paula Claas, who owned and managed the family’s machinery company, which at the time had 100 employees. At the time of Helmut’s death, the company had more than 11,000 employees around the world.
In 1958 he joined the family company at its headquarters in Harsewinkel, Germany after heading up a Claas distributor in France. Three years later, the company named him managing director.
Agricultural Machinery Pioneer Helmut Claas Passes Away at 94edit
Farm Equipment – Online
HARSEWINKEL, Germany — January 6, 2021 — Claas is saddened to announce that Helmut Claas, long-time managing director, chairman of the Supervisory Board and chairman of the Shareholders’ Committee of the Claas group, passed away on January 5 at the age of 94. His family, more than 11,000 employees, and the industry, mourn the loss of a global leader in the agricultural machinery business.
Helmut Claas was born in 1926 in Harsewinkel, Germany. His parents, August and Paula Claas, managed a small agricultural machinery firm with a workforce of around 100. He completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter after graduating from school. His early career followed in metalworking firms and further practical training in casting. ...