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Agriculture Industry
Digital empowerment of Punjab farmers: J-Form in digilocker would be treated as valid documentedit
Punjab News Express – Online
In a yet another pro-farmers’ initiative besides promoting e-governance, Punjab became the first state in the country to launch a Digi-Locker facility for farmers. Now, the farmers have an option to take print or download digital copies of their J-Forms in the state, as the Punjab Mandi Board has made the electronic format of J-Forms available, from this Wheat Procurement-2021 season onwards.
Disclosing this here today, Chairman Punjab Mandi Board Lal Singh said that this step would digitally empower farmers paving a way to ensure real time access to authentic digital sale receipt of their agriculture produce. He said that with this digital endeavour nearly 10 lakh J-form holder farmers registered with Mandi Board during ...
Current Agricultural Market is offering more and more possibilities for entrepreneursedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Agriculture now accounts for 19.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP), up from 17.8% in 2019-20, according to the Economic Survey 2020-2021. This is good news not only for India’s more than 150 million farmers, but also for industries that depend on a healthy harvest to stay afloat.
Maharashtra Govt urges rollback of fertilizer price hikeedit
The Free Press Journal – Online
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has attacked the Centre for the increase in the prices of fertilizers and demanded its immediate rollback. On the other hand, state agriculture minister Dadaji Buse claimed that the farmers will hit hard. Bhuse in a letter to the Centre said it will be difficult for the farmers to buy high-priced fertilizers due to natural calamities and the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.
Farming the potential of dronesedit
The Hindu Business Line – Online
India has one of the highest arable lands globally with over 155 million hectares and is one of the key agricultural producers. In 2019, the agricultural…
Precision Farming- An innovative approach ?edit
Daily Excelsior – Online
The century’s most valuable innovation in farm management is based on using Information and Communications and technologies. An information and technology based farm management system identifies, analyses and manages variability in fields by conducting crop production practices at the right place, on right time and in right way for optimum productivity, profitably, sustainability and protection of land resources.
Technology in Agriculture
A chip above the rest: How Agri-tech startups are riding the digital wave in rural Indiaedit
The Economic Times – Online
The use of technology in agriculture has significant potential, what with increased smartphone reach and digital connectivity in rural India. Several agri-tech startups are utilising the opportunity to tap the 150-million-strong farmer community and provide tech-based solutions for their problems, writes Akshatha M.
Last year, Vaibhav Aringale, a young horticulturist from Maharashtra’s Nashik district, decided to install a sensor-led precision farming device at his 9-acre vineyard.
Tractor industry
Tractor sales to be hit as second Covid wave impacting rural areas: Escortsedit
Outlook – Online
With the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting rural areas, tractor sales will be impacted in the short term although in the second half of the fiscal it is likely to pick up to give the industry a mid-single digit growth, according to a senior official of farm equipment major Escorts Ltd.
The company, which has a joint venture with Japan”s Kubota, is looking at around 55 per cent growth in exports in 2021-22 with Europe serving as one of the main drivers while it plans to enter markets in South East Asia and Brazil through its partner.
“Unlike in the first phase (of COVID-19) where the impact was not at all there in the rural ...