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Agriculture Industry
“Agri startups can deliver innovative products to farmers,” says Karnataka Agriculture Ministeredit
Tech Graph – Online
Agriculture Minister in Govt of Karnataka, BC Patil on Wednesday said, “Agri startups can provide missing links in the agricultural value chain and deliver efficient, innovative products, technologies, and services to farmers and consumers.”
Addressing the virtual session of FICCI Summit & Awards for Agri Startups, Minister Patil said, “The food and agriculture practices and enterprises in India are poised for transformational changes in line with the new government policies. Agriculture has been rapidly evolving into agribusiness in terms of approach and structure.”
ASIA RICE-INDIA RATES ANCHORED NEAR 3-YEAR PEAK ON STRONG EXPORT DEMANDedit
Reuters – Online
Rice export prices in India, the top exporter of the staple, remained anchored near a three-year high this week as other Asian and African buyers continued purchases, shrugging off the uptick in rates in recent weeks.
India’s 5 percent broken parboiled variety <RI-INBKN5-P1> was quoted at $402-$408 per tonne this week, unchanged from last week, which was the highest since May 2018.
“In the last two weeks prices have gone up, but buyers are still making decent purchases,” said an exporter based at Kakinada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh will use a deepwater port to export rice for the first time in decades amid a global shortage of the ...
India to see record wheat harvest in 2021-22 amid higher export prospectsedit
S&P Global – Online
India is heading for its largest wheat harvest on record in 2021-22 (April-March) amid recently brightened prospects for higher exports in the current marketing season that ends on March 31.
India’s 2020-21 wheat harvest is expected to hit a record 107.6 million mt, and a record planting and favorable weather conditions have fueled the expectation of a bumper wheat harvest in 2021, the US Department of Agriculture’s India attaché said Feb. 11 in its Grain and Feed report. The agency did not provide exact production numbers for the 2021-22 season.
A 2020-21 rabi crop report from India’s Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare estimates the country’s 2021 wheat crop planting area at a new record of ...
Agri Start-ups should become the pivot of agricultural transformation & democratization of technology:edit
Orissa Diary – Online
Dr Ashok Dalwai, CEO, NRAA, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt of India today said that while India has made good progress in ease of doing business, more efforts are still required to make agriculture competitive.
Addressing the inaugural session of the third edition of FICCI Summit and Awards for Agri Start-ups, Dr Dalwai said that agricultural start-ups should become the pivot of agricultural transformation. He also mentioned that it is imperative to democratize technology and create jobs in rural India through development of Agri start up ecosystem. “We need to create a single platform of agricultural institutions and compile their technology to make it available to the Agri start-ups. There are numerous incubation centres ...
Palampur agri varsity to start radio station for farmers soonedit
The Tribune – Online
CSK Agricultural University, Palampur, will soon start a community radio station to make farmers aware of agriculture-related information and new technologies.
This radio station will be set up at Sundernagar in Mandi district, said HK Chaudhary, Vice-Chancellor of CSK Agricultural University, Palampur, here.
Chaudhary called on Governor Bandaru Dattatreya at Raj Bhawan and apprised him about the new initiatives. The VC apprised the Governor that recently during the golden jubilee celebration of HP statehood, the university published a booklet dedicated to progressive farmers of the state who have done outstanding work in the field of agriculture at state, national and international level.
Intellecap, TRIF launch platform to promote circularity in agricultureedit
The Hindu Business Line – Online
To help address the challenges faced by smallholder farmers, businesses and consumers, Intellecap and Transform Rural India Foundation (TRIF) today announced the launch of IAFS-CAP, a platform to promote circularity in production, processing and distribution of agriculture products such as food, fibre and fuel.
Circularity in agriculture is about optimising the system and is based on four basic principles — arable land should be used primarily to produce plant biomass for human consumption; by-products from food production, processing and consumption should be recycled back in the food system; adoption of the principles of regenerative agriculture and finally promoting consumption at low trophic levels.
Tractor industry
Tractor sales rise 48% in January, demand expected to remain robustedit
Business Standard – Online
Tractors sales rose nearly 48 per cent in January 2021 to 87,579 units, including 9,234 which were exported, from 59,367 units in January 2020. Month on month, sales increased after two months of fall. Demand was driven by expansion in rabi acreage, high reservoir levels and higher liquidity in the hands of farmers, among others.
While every segment of the auto sector felt the pressure due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the tractor segment was the first one to revive and it continues to be the fastest growing in the auto segment.
According to the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations, retail numbers for the month of January inicated that the only segment which was in green ...