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Agriculture Industry
Modernisation of agriculture going on in full swing in Hamirpuredit
United News of India – Online
Hamirpur (HP), Apr 21(UNI) With the changing environment, the nature of farming in the country and the state of Himachal Pradesh has also changed with its Hamirpur district spending an amount of about 3.5 crore rupees under agricultural mechanisation schemes for purchase of modern equipment, helping thousands of farmers to get better crops. It was possible only due to the help extended by the government agencies for the purchase of the Modern equipment right from sowing to the harvesting and threshing of the crops
Ensure farmers get fertilisers at old rates, Agriculture Department toldedit
The Tribune – Online
The state government has directed the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department to ensure that the farmers get fertilisers at old rates.
An official said directions had been given to the authorities as per the decision taken by the Centre at a meeting with fertiliser manufacturers, who had sought a hike in prices due to increase in the cost of raw materials. The companies were told to sell the existing stock at the old rates.
He said directions had also been given to the authorities to resolve the grievances of the farmers regarding the prices of fertilisers on a priority. He said the deputy director had been told to audit stock of all fertiliser dealers.
India’s Agriculture trade grows during 2020-21edit
DD News – Online
Even, during the difficult time of Pandemic, India took care not to disturb the world food supply chain and continued to export. The export of Agri and allied commodities during Apr,2020 – Feb,2021 were Rs. 2.74 lakhCrore as compared to Rs. 2.31 Crore in the same period last year indicating an increase of 18.49%.
The commodities which posted significant positive growth in exports were wheat,Other Cereals,Rice (other than Basmati), Soya meal, Spices, Sugar, Raw Cotton, Fresh Vegetable, Processed Vegetables, and Alcoholic Beverages etc.
Wheat and other cereals posted huge growth over last year, i.e., increasing from Rs. 425 Crore to Rs. 3283 Crore and Rs. 1318 Crore to Rs. 4542 Crore, respectively. On specific ...
Farm exports rose 16.9% in April-Feb. FY21edit
The Hindu – Online
India exported agricultural commodities worth ₹2.74 lakh crore till February of the 2020-21 fiscal, a 16.9% increase from ₹2.31 lakh crore in the year earlier, notwithstanding the pandemic, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.
Similarly, imports of agriculture and allied commodities increased by 3% to ₹1,41,034 crore during the April-February period of 2020-21 from ₹1,37,014 crore in the year earlier period. Despite COVID-19, balance of trade in agriculture has favourably increased to ₹1,32,579.69 crore from ₹93,907.76 crore in the said period, the ministry said in a statement.
“India has consistently maintained trade surplus in the agricultural products over the years. …Even during the difficult time of the pandemic, India took care not to disturb the world ...
India’s export of Agricultural and allied commodities shows an impressive increase of 18.49 per cent during 2020-2021edit
News on Air – Radio
India has witnessed an impressive increase of almost 18.5 per cent in export of Agricultural and allied products during April 2020 to February 2021 as compared to the same period, the previous year.
The country had witnessed tremendous growth of 727 per cent in Wheat export and 132 per cent in Non-Basmati Rice export, despite the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic.
Some other commodities that posted significant positive growth in exports include cereals, soya meal, spices, sugar, raw cotton, fresh vegetable, processed vegetables and alcoholic beverages.
India took care not to disturb the world food supply chain and continued to export even during the pandemic. The export of Agricultural and allied commodities during April 2020 to ...
Technology in Agriculture
Agritech Startup, Barton Breeze Introduces Bank Guarantee For Hydroponic Farmsedit
BW Disrupt – Online
Barton Breeze – a leader in commercial Hydroponic farming in India has recently started offering bank guarantees to its B2B customers through a nationalized bank of India. The bank guarantee is provided on end-to-end business models and executes projects on a turnkey basis that further reduces investment risks for customers.
A country like India has an arid climate which poses challenges to agriculture activities in the country. This gives rise to the adoption of hydroponic farming that does not require soil for growing plants. Since hydroponic produce can be grown in nutrient-rich water, it possesses a number of benefits for health-conscious people. With an increased interest of people in hydroponic farming and considering it required decent ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Relief sought as rain hits rabi crop harvestingedit
The Tribune – Online
After facing a prolonged dry spell during the months of January and February, intermittent rains during the past few days have hit farmers hard in lower Kangra districts comprising Nurpur, Jawali, Fatehpur and Indora sub divisions, disrupting the ongoing harvesting of wheat.
The farmers, who have suffered losses to their farm yields due to the vagaries of weather, are a harried a lot as their harvested wheat crop lying in the field after cutting has become wet and unfit for thrashing to extract wheat grains. The rain has also flattened their crops standing in the fields.
Rakesh Kumar and Subhash Singh of Kopra lamented that rains at this stage of the harvesting season is a cause ...
Tractor industry
M&M to set up a new tractor plant, scouting for land in Punjab, elsewhereedit
Economic Times – Online
Mahindra & Mahindra, the country’s largest tractor maker, is scouting for land in Punjab, and some other states to set up a new manufacturing facility to meet future demand as its existing plants are operating over 100% capacity.
“We are actively looking at an additional factory and for this we may need a land parcel of about 50 acres,” Hemant Sikka, president of farm equipment division at M&M, told ET.
He said the maker of Swaraj brand of tractors is fully maxed out on capacity. The debottlenecking measures the company has taken across its manufacturing units will improve its output incrementally and help meet the demand this fiscal year. “But beyond that, we need to add ...