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Agriculture Industry
Intensity of summer harvesting operationsedit
Daily Thanthi – Online
Summer harvesting is in full swing in Thiruvarur district. Of this, 7 thousand 109 hectares have been completed. Thiruvarur district is the largest producer of paddy in the Cauvery delta region of Tamil Nadu. The area has better soil fertility for paddy production than other crops. In most of the places here, agriculture is done by relying on river irrigation. Thus the Cauvery water has been the lifeblood of the plowing industry. The Mettur Dam has been open for irrigation for the last 2 years due to depletion of water. In view of this, paddy purchasing centers are being set up by the Consumer Goods Corporation to procure paddy from farmers, taking into account the ...
Technology in Agriculture
Farm Organisations Flag Privacy Concerns, Seek Withdrawal of Agristack by Centreedit
The Wire – Online
Farmers’ organisations are just as dissatisfied with the government’s AgriStack (the name given to a collection of technology-based interventions in agriculture), as they are with the three controversial farm laws that they have been agitating against since 2020. In a note sent to the Union government on June 30, 91 farmers’ organisations and organisations that work on the digital rights of citizens have stated that the government has started the execution of AgriStack before consulting the farmers and that the Centre should backtrack from the various memoranda of understanding it has already signed. The note also cites the problems that both the farmers and digital rights organisations have found in the government’s proposals to digitise ...
Paddy sowing: Ex-agriculture officer develops tech to use less wateredit
The Times Of India – Online
In an effort to save water during paddy cultivation, former district agriculture officer Daler Singh, who has already been promoting sowing of paddy on ridges, has now innovated ‘dry puddling’ technique for transplanting paddy in place of traditional water-guzzling puddling. Even though a few dry seeding techniques have been successfully developed and scores of farmers have adapted to the same, most of the farmers still resort to traditional style of puddling. “As puddling has made a place in farmer’s psyche and they are unable to come out of it, the concept of dry puddling will help them save water. The technique involves pressing of the soil with a heavy plank (by adding weight ...