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Agriculture Industry
Farmers poor despite India being a powerhouseedit
GulfToday – Online
Since Independence, the agriculture sector has remained the main source of national income and occupation in India. In 1947, 72 per cent of the total working population was engaged in agricultural sector, but still a majority of India’s poor (some 770 million people or about 70 per cent) inhabit the rural areas.
Though due to the high growth rates of the industrial and services sectors, the share of agricultural share in India’s economy has progressively declined to less than 15 per cent, yet its importance in the country’s economic and social development can’t be denied.
On road to self-sufficiency: The Green revolution of the 1960s witnessed a drastic increase in total agricultural production, particularly wheat and rice. ...
The overlapping priorities of Food Security, Agriculture and Healthedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The theme of this year’s World Health Day is ‘Building a fairer, healthier world’. Among other things that help to attain and maintain health, food remains an important factor. Equitable distribution of food not only nourishes people to become productive members of society but helps to prevent malnutrition. However, it also means that our farming practices are robust enough to meet the demand for food.
According to estimates, about 30-35 percent of the annual crop yield in India is wasted due to pests while in the period 2017-2019, India lost crops on 18 million hectares to extreme floods. Such factors can adversely impact the food security of the people which, according to the National Commission on ...
Number of workers in agri dipped in 30 years: Reportedit
The Times of India – Online
In a reflection of the changing socio-economic dynamics, the report on “Women and Men In India 2020” shows that while share of male and female workers in agriculture has shown a steady decline from 1987-88 till 201819, there is an increasing trend for both in trade, hotel and restaurant sectors. The report released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation draws upon available nationally representative data sources to give an insight into the gender dynamics and shifts across sectors ranging from employment, education, health and decision-making. The report also dedicates a chapter to the impediments in the way of empowerment. In the chapter on education, data from NSS 75th round (2017-18) shows that ...
US to India: Explain new agri cess, RoDTEP schemeedit
Financial Express – Online
The RoDTEP scheme has, from January 1, replaced the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS), which was successfully challenged by the US at the WTO on ground of being inconsistent with global trade norms.
A key export tax refund scheme, Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC), subsidy on crop loans, import duty on cotton and ban on onion exports are among a raft of India’s policy interventions that have come under a heightened glare of various World Trade Organization (WTO) members, especially the US.
Seeking “an update on the operational status and guidelines” of the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme, Washington wants New Delhi to “provide an explanation of this ...
This automated tractor developed by an engineering student can help farmers cultivate land using an appedit
EdexLive – Online
Adithya Mohanavel, an engineering student at B S abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, comes from a family of farmers. Every time he visits his ancestral home near Kancheepuram, he is saddened by the plight of the farmers — most of whom are elderly and have no option but to toil in the fields throughout the day because their children have moved to cities in search of education and better jobs.
Adithya, who is currently pursuing his B TEch CSE, specialising in AI and IoT saw a two-fold problem here. One, the health and well-being of old farmers was being affected greatly. Two, as more and more youngsters moved to cities, there were fewer people ...
Technology in Agriculture
Armed with AI & drones, online mandis shake up farming, aim to cut waste to boost farm incomeedit
The Print – Online
With promises of minimal farm wastage, better income for farmers, and ensuring nutritious fruits and vegetables on your plate, an entire ecosystem of agriculture e-commerce portals is beginning to take shape in India.
These new companies deploy technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and drones to inject efficiency and expertise all along the supply chain. It starts with providing farmers with important inputs to help bolster the quality of produce, and ends with bringing them to the consumer as quickly as possible.
How BharatAgri Is Disrupting The Agri Sector With Tech Driven Advisory Platformedit
Inc42 – Online
The year was 2015. Two friends came together in the final year of their graduation to work on increasing technology adoption across farms and solving the unorganised nature of the agriculture sector. After brainstorming with their peers, the duo — Siddharth Dialani and Sai Gole — proposed a project to the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, to study the sector better.
The project helped Dialani and Gole validate their hypothesis about farms needing a parametric approach, given that there were too many variables. At the time, the duo also started pilots with actual users. Thus emerged BharatAgri, a farmer-focussed agritech platform driven by advisory solutions for deriving maximum value from farming operations.