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Farmers take to Clubhouse to discuss best farming practices, seek expert adviceedit
The Indian Express – Online
A month back, when agri-commodity analyst Deepak Chavan installed Clubhouse on his phone, it was only to satisfy his curiosity. The social audio app had started to gain popularity in India, and Chavan, a veteran in the field of media and communication, wanted to see what the fuss was all about. After a few days of exploring the audio drop in platform, he realised it could act as an important link in the chain of agriculture extension – the practice of giving farmers expert advice on skills and techniques that could be used to boost productivity – and thus was born The Indian Farmer’s Club. Barely a couple of weeks into existence, the virtual ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Delay in monsoon another headache for Modi govt as summer crop planting lagsedit
Mint – Online
Indian farmers have planted 49.9 million hectares (123 million acres) with summer crops, down 10.43% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, as monsoon rains taper off after a strong start last month. Farmers typically start planting summer-sown crops on June 1, when monsoon rains usually reach India. Planting then continues until early August. Planting of rice, the key summer crop, was at 11.5 million hectares as of July 9 versus 12.6 million hectares in the previous year, the ministry said.
Paddy transplantation delayed due to delay in monsoonedit
Amar Ujala – Online
Due to the delay in the arrival of monsoon, where the planting of paddy is lagging behind in the district, it is also affecting other crops including sugarcane. Paddy is cultivated in an area of about 60 thousand hectares in the district. So far only 40 per cent of paddy has been planted. Had the monsoon rains started, this figure would have reached 70 per cent. Generally, by this time the monsoon arrives in the district. But this time it has not happened. Farmers are still waiting for the monsoon. Due to the lack of monsoon rains, while the planting of paddy is being affected, other crops including sugarcane are also being adversely affected. Paddy ...
Stubble Burning
Akali Dal’s posers to AAP on plea to close Punjab thermal plantsedit
DT Next – Online
It also asked AAP Punjab leaders to explain why it was maintaining silence on such a sensitive issue linked to the progress and prosperity of the state. In a statement here, SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema said the Punjab AAP leaders, including state convener Bhagwant Mann, were in the habit of holding press conferences every day but had failed to react to the “anti-Punjab” step of Kejriwal till now. “Kejriwal also filed an affidavit in a court demanding criminal cases be registered against farmers indulging in paddy stubble burning even though he professed to express sympathies with the farmers of Punjab,” he added.
Green drive has cut air pollution by 25%: Delhi social welfare minister Rajendra Pal Gautamedit
The Times Of India – Online
The AAP government’s large-scale tree plantation drive has helped increase the green cover and reduce air pollution in the national capital by 25%, Delhi social welfare minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said on Saturday. The minister planted saplings to mark the ongoing ‘Van Mahotsav’, which aims to plant over 33 lakh saplings across the city this year. As part of the programme, a 15-day long tree plantation drive from June 26 is presently underway. “The Delhi government is the first state government to come up with a solution to stubble burning by using bio decomposers,” he claimed.