Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Rural India can’t be dustbin of history. Three farm laws have shown farmers need a New Dealedit
The Print – Online
A historic farmers’ movement is a moment to unveil a vision for the future. Not just for farmers or agriculture, but for rural India, and indeed for the future of India.
This movement has already created history. It has firmly brought back the farmers to the national imagination. You can’t pretend they don’t exist. It has put the fear of vote, more effective than the fear of God, in the mind of the political class. You don’t take panga with farmers. It has shut up market fundamentalists who whisper too-clever-by-half agri-reform recipes to the powers that be. No more corporate plugs masquerading as textbook economics pushing for “reform by stealth”. At least for some time. It has succeeded in pushing the envelope to where ...
Flash droughts set to increase in India, finds studyedit
Prevention Hub – Online
Flash droughts are droughts that intensify more rapidly than normal, posing a risk to agriculture, ecosystems and water availability. Conventional droughts take months and sometimes even years to develop to full intensity. Flash droughts on the other hand develop at an unusually fast rate due to extreme weather conditions and persist from a few weeks to some months. Such droughts can be localised to a specific region or can become widespread and affect a large part of the country.
What keeps the crop healthy? Bengaluru startup Fasal’s sensors dig deep to find the answer.edit
Economic Times – Online
When most of the world was celebrating bidding adieu to the fateful year, table-grape farmer Dinesh Nivrutti
Rakibe at Dharangaon — some 40km from Nashik — was busy readying his fruit-laden eld to ght the untimely forces of nature. The year 2020 had been rough for Rakibe and his ilk. The Covid-19-led trade restrictions meant he was forced to sell his export-quality grapes, which could have fetched him INR60 a kilo, for INR6 per kilo. For a crop that requires an input cost of INR3 lakh per acre, selling the nal product at one-tenth of the price was a loss even a large horticulture farmer like Rakibe could not afford again.
Budget
Budget lays out plan for agriculture growthedit
The Hindu – Online
The Ernakulam District Panchayat budget for 2021-22 has laid out a clear programme of agricultural development over the next year. A total of nearly ₹10 crore has been set aside for agricultural activities. The budget has also focussed on housing for all and welfare of women.
The budget was presented by district panchayat vice president Shiny George at a session presided over by Ullas Thomas, president, on Tuesday.
The budget allocation for agriculture included ₹2 crore for comprehensive farming activities, ₹25 lakh for Kera Gramam Programme and ₹50 lakh for the one-rice and one-fish agricultural cycle activities.
Farmers will be supported with a subsidy of ₹17,000 per hectare. There will also be steps to establish rice ...
Technology in Agriculture
Precision farming: Deep tech revolution is re-inventing Indian agricultureedit
SMR Futures – Online
India till mid-1960s was dependent on imports to meet food requirement of its populace. Harvest failures, droughts, and famine were very frequent. Green Revolution led India out of era of chronic food shortage and helped our country to usher into food self-sufficiency. Afterwards, India became a food exporter in 1990s.
Today tech-revolution is changing the way India is farming. Mali Narendra, owner of Vadli Farm in Banaskantha district of Gujarat uses app based on satellite imagery to keep tab on what is going in his farm. Similarly, farmers in Khutahan village in Mirzapur recently learned to use drones for planting seeds.
A team of agricultural experts from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) demonstrated the use of drones ...
Is Dhanuka Agritech Limited’s (NSE:DHANUKA) Latest Stock Performance Being Led By Its Strong Fundamentals?edit
SimpleWallSt. – Online
Dhanuka Agritech’s (NSE:DHANUKA) stock is up by 6.8% over the past three months. Given that the market rewards strong financials in the long-term, we wonder if that is the case in this instance. In this article, we decided to focus on Dhanuka Agritech’s ROE.
ROE or return on equity is a useful tool to assess how effectively a company can generate returns on the investment it received from its shareholders. In short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments.
Stubble Burning
They Shifted The Goal Post To Environmentalism, Only To Score A Self-Goaledit
Swarjya – Online
In a significantly confusing development, I came across a tweet recently that highlighted how environmentalists were supporting the struggles of the Indian farmer. I was confused, for various reasons — as staunch environmentalists have repeatedly asked for laws to prevent the degradation of environment by a section of paddy-growing farmers in Northern parts of India.
Curiously, it is this set of farmers that have made the most noise around the new laws — and thus, for environmentalists to extend support to these farmers would mean them disregarding their quest for seeking an increased policy priority for environmental preservation.
Tractor industry
Bengaluru firm develops components for US electric tractoredit
ETEnergy – Online
Bengaluru-based agri-machinery maker VST Tillers Tractors Ltd on Wednesday said that it has developed components for an electric smart tractor built in the US.
“Under technical collaboration with California-based Monarch Tractor, we designed, developed and manufactured components such as transmission, clutch and axle systems for integrating with its electrical motor and software to roll out electric tractors,” VST Chief Executive Antony Cherukara told IANS here.
“Since its launch in mid-December, Monarch’s e-tractors have been getting good response in the US, especially from vineyard farmers in the Napa Valley in the California,” said Cherukara.