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Agriculture Industry
For a bumper cropedit
The Hindu – Online
With the global food demand set to surge almost two-fold by 2050 (according to UN estimates), it is imperative to increase agricultural productivity and enhance the quality of produce to feed the growing population. To meet this challenge, policy makers and stakeholders have been looking for a modern ecosystem that can amalgamate automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data seamlessly with agriculture to reap better results. Consequently, agritech has emerged as the driving force for career opportunities in this sector.
Agritech — or the use of technology in agriculture, aquaculture, or horticulture — is a necessary tool to modernise agriculture and increase yields, while making it more cost-effective. It may also help in resolving the ...
Target of doubling farm income won’t be achieved if new agri laws not implemented: Ramesh Chandedit
India TV News – Online
Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand on Sunday said the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 will not be fulfilled if the three new farm laws are not implemented immediately, adding that the protesting farm unions should consider the government’s offer of discussing the legislation clause by clause.
In an interview to PTI, Chand further said the blanket ban on genetically modified crops is not the right approach.
The government and unions representing farmers, who have been camping at Delhi’s border for four months in protest against the three laws that they say will end state procurement of crops at MSP, have held 11 rounds of talks, the last being on January 22. ...
Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production And Farmers Welfare, Navin Kumar Choudhary Inaugurates Kisan Mela-Cum-Exhibition At Remote Block Sumb In Sambaedit
India Education Diary – Online
Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare, Navin Kumar Choudhary today visited Sumb block of district Samba and inaugurated one day Kisan mela-cum-exhibition amidst enthusiastic response from the local farmers community.
The Principal Secretary along with concerned officers inspected different stalls including Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Sericulture, Handicraft, Khadi and Village Industry, Fisheries, and others exhibiting modern farm machinery, organic products, local products besides the stalls also highlighted various farmers’ welfare schemes and programmes.
‘Modernisation in agriculture need of the hour, have lost a lot of time’: PM Modiedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that like every sector, there is a need to adopt new practices in agriculture sector also. Addressing the nation on ‘Mann Ki Baat’, PM Modi highlighted the importance of bee farming and how it is helping farmers boost their income.
“In every aspect of life, novelty and modernisation is essential. Otherwise, it becomes a burden on us. In India’s agriculture sector, modernisation is the need of the hour. It’s very late, we have already lost a lot of time,” said PM Modi.
“To generate new employment opportunities, in agriculture sector, to increase the income of farmers, it is equally important to adopt new alternatives and innovations along with ...
Technology in Agriculture
Mechanised farming to get major boostedit
The Times of India – Online
Margao: With a view to promote mechanised farming, the state government has prepared an action plan setting out short, middle and long-term goals. In a reply to an unstarred question by the leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, agriculture minister Chandrakant Kavlekar said the targets will be achieieved through strategic planning in a phased manner.
Among the short term goals to be achieved by 2021 are creation of five farm machinery banks in addition to 110 available in the state, and subsidising three harvesters to the targeted group of registered farmers, agriculture societies and NGOs with the objective of accentuating paddy cultivation.
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India set to exceed voluntary emissions-cut targetedit
The Times of India – Online
India’s carbon footprint has been consistently increasing in sync with its development needs but the country will eventually exceed what it had voluntarily pledged to the UN climate body with respect to its pre-2020 commitments.
In its third biennial update report (BUR-III), submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently, India declared that its emission intensity (per unit of GDP) had reduced by 24% between 2005 and 2016 and, therefore, it was “on track to meet its voluntary declaration to reduce the emission intensity of GDP by 20-25% from 2005 levels by 2020”.
पराली जलाने के दोषी किसान को छह माह की सजा, जुर्मानाedit
Jagran – Online
फतेहगढ़ साहिब की अदालत ने पराली को आग लगाने के दोष में पुलिस द्वारा नामजद किए किसान को दोषी मानते हुए छह माह नेकचलनी और जुर्माने की सजा सुनाई है। मामले के अनुसार दस नवंबर 2020 को थाना फतेहगढ़ साहिब की पुलिस द्वारा मोहन सिंह निवासी खानपुर के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज किया गया था। मामले में मोहन सिंह पर आरोप था कि उसने धान की पराली को आग लगाकर प्रशासन के आदेशों की अवहेलना की है। मामले की सुनवाई अदालत में पूरी होने पर ज्यूडीशियल मजिस्ट्रेट फर्स्ट क्लास डा. गगनदीप कौर की अदालत ने मोहन सिंह को दोषी मानते हुए एक हजार रुपये जुर्माना और छह माह नेकचलनी की सजा सुनाई है। भगौड़े को एक साल ...