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Agricultural machinery market in India to grow by US$1.87bn: Technavioedit
Far Eastern Agriculture – Online
The agricultural machinery market in India is expected to grow by US$1.87bn during 2021-2025, according to Technavio
The report offers a detailed analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agricultural machinery market in India in optimistic, probable, and pessimistic forecast scenarios.
The agricultural machinery market in India will witness a negative impact during the forecast period, owing to the widespread growth of the COVID-19 pandemic. As per Technavio’s pandemic-focused market research, market growth is likely to increase in 2021 as compared to 2020.
With the continuing spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, organisations across the globe are gradually flattening their recessionary curve by leveraging technology. Many businesses will go through response, recovery, and renew ...
Agricultural sector is ready for tech-enabled makeoveredit
Forbes India – Online
Agriculture is the main source of livelihood for 58 percent of the Indian population and it represented almost $300 billion of gross value add in FY20. However, the annual growth in this gross value add is a mere 3 percent. This represents the lack of innovation that this critical sector has experienced over decades, however, it also represents the huge opportunity for innovation and technology.
Farmers face fundamental issues including lack of information on farm inputs, unorganised credit, and absence of market linkages. To put things in perspective, most farmers are compelled to use the traditional channels to purchase raw materials such as seeds, fertilisers, and other farming products. Moreover, almost 30-40 percent of the total harvest ...
Technology in Agriculture
Road To Aatmanirbharta: How Gramophone’s Agri-tech Offering Acts As A ‘doctor To Farmers’edit
Republic World – Online
In this ever-developing tech-savvy world, in a few clicks, everything is possible, even improving your farm growth, as rightly explained by the chief of Indore-based agri-tech startup Gramophone, Tauseef Khan in an exclusive conversation with Republic Media Network. Highlighting that the core philosophy of the startup is to work with farmers directly, Khan affirmed that they earn more from the land they have. “What we do is, we provide all sorts of facilities to grow the crop and we monitor all their practices right from sowing till harvest and we have also started enabling them to sell through the platform. It is like an end-to-end service.”, he explains.
Gramophone believes that technology can remove information asymmetry in the agriculture system. Farmers can ...
Innovation and Technology in Agriculture Has No Boundariesedit
AgWeb – Online
Access to technology has made me a better farmer—and my decades-long experience with it has changed how I think about growing food.
I’ve learned that there are almost no limits to how technology can improve food production, except for the ones that we impose on ourselves. The only boundaries are those that we place in our own minds.
When I became a farmer, my mind was also full of these self-imposed barriers. Here in Bihar, India, farmers like me did everything in the traditional manner. The system we followed was time wasting and inefficient with little difference from the methods that our parents and grandparents had used.Reaping a new harvest: Giving agritech a farmer-first approachedit
Financial Express – Online
Tech Mahindra has been one of the few Indian IT services companies to venture into niche domains. With its Makers Lab, the company has ventured into a space where it is in a position to bridge multiple levels of businesses—adding great business value to to its parent corporation, working with startup ecosystem and at the same time contribute to the tech industry by creating IP locally in India and enabling developers to build further on top of it.
Leading this is Nikhil Malhotra, global head, Makers Lab, Tech Mahindra. One of the unique things coming out of Makers Lab is agritech and its multiple offerings. “In India, as far as agritech is concerned, a large focus from ...
Stubble Burning
10-fold rise in funeral fires past month: Geo-analytic expert after sat dataedit
The Times of India – Online
It was a normal working day for Raj Bhagat, a geo-analytic and earth observation expert who works with a global environment research organisation in its India office, but what he saw on his computer screen was very unusual. There were signs of a huge fire, mostly near the river beds in the cities of Northern India. “There are orange dots — an unprecedented rise in fire signals picked up via satellite short-wave infrared (SWIR) bands — that, too, near river beds, something very rare to be found in this area,” said Bhagat, who uses satellite mapping to track forest fires and farm stubble-burning incidents.
Out of curiosity, he dug more, using Google co-ordinates and ...
33 cases of stubble burning recorded in Punjab’s Sangrur; experts warn COVID situation could worsenedit
Times Now – Online
Several instances of stubble burning were reported from parts of Punjab even as the practice is banned. Due to the onset of the wheat harvesting season, farmers took to burning stubble and 84 fires were reported from south Malwa districts since April 15.
As per the data available with the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB), Mansa reported 25 rabi crop farm fires between April 15-25, the highest among seven southern districts in the state. Experts believe that there is a direct correlation between the number of fires to the magnitude of COVID cases. In Sangrur, 33 cases of stubble burning were recorded.