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Agriculture Industry
Telangana minister inaugurates women-led food processing units in Bhadrachalam and Khammamedit
Agriculture Post – Online
Satyavathi Rathod, Minister for Scheduled Tribes, Women and Child Welfare, Telangana, today inaugurated a women-run moringa (drumstick) processing unit in Mucharala village of Khammam district and a dry mix (ready-to-cook foods) unit in Bhadrachalam. Both the units are wholly owned by tribal women, who were trained in food processing and entrepreneurship at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Lakshmi Ganapathy Dry Mix Unit will supply ready-to-cook Jowar meal (Upma mix) and ready-to-cook multigrain meal (Khichidi mix) to government nutrition programmes and anganwadis in the tribal region. Sri Rama Moringa Processing Industry will sell moringa powder in markets.
These food processing units are the third successful collaboration between the Telangana Scheduled Tribes Cooperative Finance Corporation (TRICOR), Tribal Welfare ...
Here’s Why I Think Dhanuka Agritech (NSE:DHANUKA) Might Deserve Your Attention Todayedit
Simply Wall St. – Online
For beginners, it can seem like a good idea (and an exciting prospect) to buy a company that tells a good story to investors, even if it completely lacks a track record of revenue and profit. But the reality is that when a company loses money each year, for long enough, its investors will usually take their share of those losses.
So if you’re like me, you might be more interested in profitable, growing companies, like Dhanuka Agritech (NSE:DHANUKA). Even if the shares are fully valued today, most capitalists would recognize its profits as the demonstration of steady value generation. Loss-making companies are always racing against time to reach financial sustainability, but time is often a friend ...
An Enterprising Initiative towards Securing the Future of Sustainability in Sugarcane Supply Chain sector in Indiaedit
United News in India – Online
The country’s sugarcane industry, second only to cotton in size, relies on more than six million smallholder farmers and countless labourers to produce its sugar. However, sugarcane farming is highly water-intensive, and recent years have witnessed significant depletion of ground water resources—threatening food security, economic growth and livelihoods of the farmers. Solidaridad, along with its consortium of partners, brought together multiple stakeholders in a policy consultation event on Friday to deliberate on the moot issues and the way forward for sustainability in sugarcane farming in India. The diverse cross-sectoral participation led to a milieu of strategic discussions on creating an enabling environment for resource-efficient supply chains in the sugarcane industry.
Dairy Farming
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said it is for the state to devise strategies for enforcement of environmental laws and recovery of compensation from those who violate the same on ‘Polluter Pays’ principle. “Even though the application has been filed as above, during the hearing, learned counsel for the State says that he has no instructions in the matter.edit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Teplu.in, a leading start-up in the animal husbandry space has launched an innovative online education course dedicated to India’s dairy farmers. Teplu Learning Private Limited today announced the launch of the multilingual video-based online course on scientific dairy farming in three different languages – Hindi, Marathi & English. The affordable courses aim to support dairy farmers of all levels.
The online courses teach a step by step process of all the scientific methodologies that go into making a dairy farm profitable. The courses have been created with eight top experts in the field of dairy farming. These experts have years of experience in helping farmers set up and manage dairy farms successfully. The courses are completely ...
Technology in Agriculture
SIETZ commences manufacturing plant for SOILTECH agricultural implementsedit
Agriculture Post – Online
SIETZ Technologies India, today commenced operations at its newly upgraded manufacturing plant at Prithla Industrial Area, near Faridabad in Haryana expanding its capacity to manufacture wider range of its farm implement portfolio under SOILTECH brand. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, the plant is aimed to expand SOILTECH range of products from rotary tillers, disc harrows, disc ploughs and MB ploughs to new products such as super seeders, reversible ploughs, laser levellers and mulchers in the coming months. The new plant has advanced manufacturing assembly line all the way from fabrication to the final testing.
Speaking on the inauguration of the manufacturing plant, Kranti Deepak Sharma, CEO, SIETZ Technologies India said, “Farmers have started using advanced machines to increase quality and productivity of various crops like ...
Why Blockchain adoption in agri-tech will pave way for liquidity to the farmersedit
Techgraph – Online
The rapid transformation India witnessed in the last decade due to the integration of technology into everyday life is unparalleled in the modern era. It has allowed a largely agrarian and rural country to adapt to new methods of operation.
Through simplified smartphone based procedures that suit the digital literacy standards of the population, several companies have devised new-age tech to revitalize the economy. They have made them more efficient, while developing the next generation of technologies such as blockchain.
The technology will lead the way in organizing transactions for people in real-time, designed specifically to speed up the supply chain and the agri market needs. However, the computational power and intricacy of the software behind these ...
Fyllo Agritech Start-Up of Bengaluru Helps to Develop Better Produce & Conserves Million Liters of Wateredit
Krishi Jagran – Online
After a mobile application proposed that his harvest was tainted with a typical fungal infection called Downy Mildew, Roshan Zalte, a grape farmer from Maharashtra, hurried to his grape plantation one morning to review his yield. He discovered it to be the case after investigating a portion of the leaves. “By all accounts, the harvest appeared to be OK, yet a more critical look uncovered the beginning of the infection,” says Roshan, who has a grape plantation that is spread over more than 15 acres of land.
A couple of months sooner, the grape farmer had introduced a gadget in his grape plantation that alleged to help evaluate climate conditions, foresee diseases plaguing his yield alongside controlling him through their whole ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble burning: NGT junks Punjab plea to recover penaltyedit
Free Press Journal – Online
The National Green Tribunal has refused to entertain a plea by Punjab government seeking directions to recover pending environmental compensation for burning crop residue from defaulting farmers as arrears of the land revenue.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said it is for the state to devise strategies for enforcement of environmental laws and recovery of compensation from those who violate the same on ‘Polluter Pays’ principle.
“Even though the application has been filed as above, during the hearing, learned counsel for the State says that he has no instructions in the matter.