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SKUAST-K organizes training on Intellectual Property Rights in Agricultureedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir organized 3 days online training program on intellectual property rights in agriculture.
According to a statement, the training was conducted by the university’s Faculty of Agriculture, Wadura campus, under World Bank-ICAR supported National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) for the institutional development of SKUAST-K in order to mark the World Intellectual Property Day 2021 from 26-28April.
The training was aimed at making the students and faculty aware about various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, World Trade Organization (WTO) trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, National Intellectual Property Rights policy, filing of patents, protection of plant varieties, and Farmer’s Right Act. Etc
Sensor Enable Shift from Preventive to Predictive Agricultureedit
EET India – Online
Since its inception, the Industrial Revolution has centered on automating production processes. Now that we have entered the era of Industry 4.0, most industrial processes have become data-centric, generally involving five steps of data manipulation: collection, transmission, storage, analysis, and, finally, display. This last step is to keep humans in the loop, but data can also be fed back to some actuating device, bringing the process into the realm of robotics.
Agriculture has not been immune to industrialization over the past two centuries, and in recent years, Agriculture 4.0 has gained momentum. Just as industrial production made the transition toward data management, agriculture is now following that path. Companies that traditionally have served industrial segments now ...
‘Agricultural Commodities Shortly Being Traded Through E-NAM Platform’edit
India Education Diary – Online
Director Horticulture Planning and Marketing Department, Vishesh Mahajan today said that the agriculture commodities will be shortly traded through National Agriculture Market (eNAM) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing officers of the department, in virtual conference on National Agriculture Market (eNAM), he said that the department was focused upon making E-NAM a success in J&K and shortly farmers/ growers shall be doing online trading of agricultural commodities in J&K UT.
Amid COVID chaos and protests, India’s farmers eye record wheat cropedit
Reuters – Online
While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a months-long sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.
Underlining the organised nature of the movement as it tries to force Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke reforms aimed at making agriculture more efficient, farmers are being ferried to and from villages in order to harvest this year’s wheat crop.
The logistical feat is working, at least from the farmers’ point of view. They are on track to gather a ...
India’s deepening water crisis at the heart of farm protestsedit
abcnews – Online
Every year, Swarn Singh sows rice in his fields, knowing that the thirsty crop is draining northern India’s Punjab of its groundwater. But Singh says he has no choice, adding, “We’d rather plant crops that need less water.”
The 32-year-old farmer and school teacher lives in Ransih Kalan village in the state’s Moga district, where green fields surrounding its wide roads and large houses belie the reality that the region is among India’s most parched and its once-prosperous agricultural system is now broken.
India’s water crisis looms over an agrarian crisis that has been brewing for decades. At its heart is a conundrum: the government has been subsidizing the cultivation of rice in northern India, but such ...Technology in Agriculture
This Bengaluru-based agritech startup aims to make India ‘atmanirbhar’ in silk productionedit
YourStory – Online
India is the second-largest producer of silk in the world after China and is estimated to have been worth Rs 266 billion in 2019. The Central Silk Board — a part of the Ministry of Textiles — estimates that the sericulture industry is one of the largest employers in the country, with activities spread across 52,360 villages, employing 9.1 million Indians in FY19. The ban on Chinese products has provided a fillip for the Indian sericulture industry. In February 2021, Union Minister for Textiles and Women and Child Development Smriti Irani highlighted that over Rs 2,000 crore had been allocated from the Union Budget for the development of sericulture under the Silk Samagra Programme.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Monsoon Rain Predicted In Indiaedit
The Organization of World Peace – Online
Climate change has been at the forefront of many recent government campaigns. Temperatures and sea levels are reaching record highs. A recent study conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research outlined the implications of climate change on India’s weather variability. The variability in India’s monsoon rain is increasing faster than previously anticipated. The report found for every degree celsius change of global warming, monsoon rainfall increased by 5%.
While covid-19 cases surge, India relies on agriculture to fund the economy. India depends on seasonal rainfall to sustain its vegetation and crops. The farming industry sustains more than 1.3 billion people in India. Rice is the main source of nutrients across the ...
Tractor industry
Central Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institute, Budni (MP) Tests The First-Ever Electric Tractor In The Instituteedit
Indian Education Diary – Online
Central Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institute, Budni (MP) has tested the first-ever electric Tractor in the Institute. The institute received the application for an electric tractor under Confidential Test initially. Accordingly, the institute has tested the tractor & released the Draft Test Report in February, 2021. After the release of the draft test report, the manufacturer has requested for conversion of the nature of the test from “Confidential to Commercial” and the competent authority has accepted the request of the manufacturer. Accordingly, the Test Report was released as a Commercial Test Report. Electric tractor will be more environment friendly than other types of tractors.