Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Punjab makes adequate arrangements for paddy season starting tomorrowedit
Devdiscourse – Online
Punjab government had made elaborate arrangements for paddy season, including uninterrupted supply of power from June 10, said the State Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department on Wednesday. It has fixed a target to bring 10 lakh hectares area under direct sowing of paddy for this year. Director of the department Sukhdev Singh Brar said paddy will be sown over 30.20 lakh hectares of area out of which 5.35 lakh hectares area will be under Basmati cultivation whereas remaining will be under non-basmati cultivation. “This sowing is already going on and the state government was supplying adequate power supply to the farmers,” he said.
Mahbubnagar: Paddy procurement process a tough task for farmersedit
The Hans India – Online
Paddy farmers of the district are facing tough time as the millers are denying stocking the farmers’ paddy after the government procures it. According to Ramchander, a farmer from Shankarayapally village and Srinu from Bandamidipally, after repeated requests to Agriculture Officer (AO) and the PACS members for more than one month to procure their paddy stocked in their villages through Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society (PACS), the officials have given gunny bags and tokens 15 days ago. After literally fighting and pressurising the AO and PACS society members, paddy stocked in the village was weighed, but again transport became another problem for the farmers, as the PACS society members cleared that it’s farmers’ responsibility to ...
Group farming can transform agriculture post – COVID-19edit
Down To Earth – Online
Group farming involves the voluntarily pooling of land, labour and capital and cultivating in groups. This can help small farmers overcome their production constraints. The majority of Indian farms are too small to be economically viable. Some 86 per cent of farmers cultivate under two hectares, in fragments. Most lack access to irrigation, bank credit, up-to-date technical information, new technologies, and bargaining power in markets. A large proportion are women. Group farming can provide an institutional solution. By forming groups, farmers can enjoy economies of scale, have more investible funds and skills, reduce input costs, and take measures to address climate change. Women can transcend social norms that restrict their access to institutions and ...
Agriculture Minister says govt ready to talk with farmer unions; asks them to share objection on farm lawsedit
The Economic Times – Online
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said the government is ready to resume talks with protesting farmers but asked the unions to point out their objections to the provisions of the three farm laws with sound logic. The government and unions have held 11 rounds of talks, the last being on January 22, to break the deadlock and end the farmers’ protest. Talks have not resumed following widespread violence during a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26.
Competition
Tractor Franchise: Earn big money by taking a franchise of Kubota tractor, know how much investment will have to be madeedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Kubota is the country’s leading company in manufacturing agricultural machinery . Apart from the Kubota tractor, it also manufactures agricultural machinery like rice transplanter, combine harvester and power tiller. Kubota is known for making good tractors at affordable prices. Kubota has ten more tractor models in 21 to 55 HP. Kubota currently has 210 dealers across the country and the company is expanding its network. For this the company is giving an opportunity to start new agencies. If you want to earn big by taking tractor agency then you can take Kubota’s Tractor Agency. To take Kubota Dealership, you have to invest 40 to 50 lakhs.
Mid-Cap Stock Ideas: First Of The Manyedit
Investing – Online
Mid-cap is a broad word that encompasses firms and stocks that lie in between large-cap and small-cap. The market capitalization of a corporation determines how its stocks are classified. This classification is fluid and can shift in response to changes in a company’s market value. in the current bull market, there are few Mid-cap stocks that offer both momentum and value. Escorts India Ltd is an engineering firm that sells tractors and construction equipment for agriculture. Agri Machinery, Auto Ancillary Products, Railway Equipment, Construction Equipment, and Others are the company’s segments.
CSR and COVID Initiatives
CSR: CNH Industrial to start vaccination drive for all employeesedit
India CSR – Online
CNH Industrial, a global leader in the capital goods sector, which produces agricultural equipment (Case IH and New Holland Agriculture) and construction equipment (CASE Construction Equipment) in India announced an in-house COVID-19 vaccination drive for its entire Indian workforce to further ensure their health, safety and well-being in the face of the ongoing pandemic. The Company will cover all associated costs of the planned operation, which gives 4,000 employees, including contractual workers, the opportunity to receive the vaccine should they wish to do so.
Technology in Agriculture
BeAM Signs Agreement to Boost Income of Smallholder Farmers in Maharashtraedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
BeAM (BSE E Agricultural Markets) and Haridra Lakshmi inked a deal on Tuesday to help smallholder farmers in Maharashtra earn more money. The two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard, according to a statement released by the BSE. According to the exchange, the MoU aims to use globally competitive market technologies to improve the efficiency of physical markets represented by these institutions in areas like knowledge transfer, education and training, and related events.
Digital India Corporation& Indian Council Of Agricultural Research Signs MoU To Provide ‘Demand Based Tele Agriculture Advisories’ To Farmersedit
India Education Diary – Online
In order to facilitate farmers by providing location specific ‘Demand Based Tele Agriculture Advisories’, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology have signed an MoU on June 9, 2021 at Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi. The event was presided over by Dr.TrilochanMohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR), Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh, Additional Secretary (DARE) & Secretary (ICAR) and Shri Abhishek Singh, Managing Director & CEO, DIC.
Govt. Policies
Government to bring law in Monsoon Session to protect farmer rightsedit
The Indian Express – Online
Revenue Minister and Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat on Wednesday announced that the government will bring a legislation in the Monsoon Session of the state legislature to protect the rights of farmers in the wake of the three controversial farm laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government. This was decided in a meeting that Thorat held with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Agriculture Minister Dada Bhuse, Cooperation Minister Balasaheb Patil and MoS Cooperation Vishwajeet Kadam.
J&K signs MoUs with PARC; ‘Partnership aimed to bring transformation in agriculture, industry sectors’edit
The Kashmir Monitor – Online
J&K Government Wednesday signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Policy Advocacy Research Centre (PARC) here at Civil Secretariat. In presence of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, the MoUs were signed between Navin Kumar Choudhary, Principal Secretary to the Government, Department of Agriculture Production & Farmers’ welfare; Ankita Kar, Managing Director, J&K Trade Promotion Organization and Kiran Shelar, Director, PARC. The Lt Governor, in his address, observed that the J&K Government, through dynamic economic reforms, is creating a conducive ecosystem for investment, building collaboration, and partnerships to explore new markets and align potential investors for the UT, besides supporting socio-economic development, local opportunities for employment and bringing stakeholders to a common goal of sustainable growth in ...
Centre hikes MSP for kharif crops says Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomaredit
The Hans India – Online
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday raised the minimum support prices (MSP) of kharif crops, increasing them by 1.8% and 6.7%, in keeping with a policy to offer farmers at least 50% returns over the cost of cultivation, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said. The new rates come amid ongoing protests by farmers, especially from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, who want the government to scrap three agricultural laws passed in September 2020 and offer a legal backing for MSPs.
Stubble Burning
Punjab Chief Secy directs to make the state clean, green, pollution freeedit
Orissa Diary – Online
Punjab Chief Secretary, Ms Vini Mahajan, on Tuesday directed all the departments concerned to take necessary measures to address the major environmental issues in the state and control water and air pollution besides ensuring proper solid and plastic waste management. She was chairing a high-level meeting to review the progress of the action plan to control the stubble burning under the environment plan in the state here. The Agriculture department informed that all out efforts were being made to motivate the farmers for diversifying the longer duration varieties of paddy to short duration varieties and switching to other crops such as maize, cotton, and horticulture.
Tractor industry
Tractor Segment Bets Big On Kharif Seasonedit
BW BusinessWorld – Online
Despite a low single-digit dip in the sales of Tractors in May this year compared to last year’s numbers, experts are betting big on higher tractor sales due to the upcoming Kharif crop season, Rabi harvest, and gradual opening up of Mandis. “Expectations of normal monsoon will also pave the way for growth in the upcoming season,” say experts.
“While state-specific lockdowns and localized restrictions continue, it is heartening to see the Covid cases reducing sharply. This is leading to a sharp improvement in farmer sentiments and green shoots of recovery are visible, especially since the last week, as farmers start preparing their land for the upcoming Kharif crop season. A bumper Rabi harvest, record ...