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Agriculture Industry
Punjab to link land record with foodgrain procurementedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Chandigarh The Punjab government is set to integrate land record of farmers with foodgrain procurement from this kharif season. Farmers will get their payment (Minimum Support Price or MSP) for their produce (wheat and paddy) only when revenue record of their agriculture land is linked to the payment system. The Centre has asked the state government to implement the integration for kharif (paddy) procurement scheduled in October and November. In rabi (wheat) procurement season this year, the state government implemented the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system by transferring crop payment directly into farmers’ bank account. This bypassed the traditional system of routing payment through the arhtiyas (commission agents).
Cauvery basin protected agricultural zone, says Stalin, urges PM to terminate hydrocarbon extraction in Pudukottaiedit
The New Indian Express – Online
A few days after the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas invited bids for oil and gas fields in Vadatheru block in Pudukottai district, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to drop the proposal. In another bid to protect federalism, Stalin also requested the Prime Minister to direct the Union government officials to consult the State government before bringing any area in the State for auctions in future for hydrocarbon exploration and extraction. The area identified for auction falls in the Cauvery basin and also in the Protected Agricultural Zone declared by the State government, under the Tamil Nadu Protected Agricultural Zone Development Act, ...
CSR and COVID Initiatives
Swaraj Tractors Launches ‘Mera Swaraj Education Support Program’edit
India Education Diary – Online
Swaraj Tractors, a part of the USD 19.4 billion Mahindra Group, has launched the ‘Mera Swaraj Education Support Program’, an early career development initiative for engineering students across the country that aims to create a future pool of competent engineers. The programme is designed to expose first year engineering students to critical and holistic industry experiences necessary for long-term career development. Students from top engineering colleges offering agri-engineering will be targeted for this programme. For its first year, Swaraj Tractors has selected 37 students for internships from eight engineering colleges across the country. The students will be subsumed into Swaraj’s final placement process. As a part of their internships, they will also work on ...
Dams and Indian Agriculture
M K Stalin releases Mettur dam water for ‘kuruvai’ cropsedit
The Times Of India – Online
Chief minister M K Stalin opened the sluice gates of the Stanley Reservoir at Mettur on Saturday, releasing 3,000 cubic feet per second (cusecs) water to irrigate the ‘kuruvai’ crops in the delta districts of Trichy, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Pudukottai, Mayiladuthurai and Cuddalore. The quantity of water being released was increased to 10,000cusecs in the evening and is likely to be maintained at the same level for the next couple of days. Stalin said close to 5.21 lakh acres of fertile land would benefit from the water release. He said it was for the 18th time that the water was being released from the dam on the traditional date of June ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Unseasonal rain, hailstorms wreck Jammu’s agriculture; farmers wait for govt compensationedit
Free Press Journal – Online
“Every time we go out for hoeing the maize saplings, the rain and hailstorms start. Till now, our net sown area of around 5 kanals of land has been devastated by unseasonal hailstorms four times,” said an anxious-looking Guddo Devi. The 26 year-old was preparing the firewood to make dinner for her three children while speaking about the calamity. She lives in the remote Pounsa hamlet in the Chenani tehsil of Jammu’s Udhampur district and like her, many farmers in the surrounding areas of Udhampur have lost their crops to hailstorms. In these winter zones, farmers often cultivate only one crop a year in the autumn and this loss has left them anxious about ...