Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
54% of sowing complete in Pune districtedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Pune district, which has not received sufficient rainfall in July so far, have seen completion of 54% of sowing activity. Last year, by July 15, 70 per cent of the sowing was completed. Last year, by July 15 sowing on 177,000 hectares was completed. This year, only 99,356 hectares have been sown. “The sowing of rice has been impacted on a large scale in Khed, Junnar, Ambegaon, Mulshi, Bhor, and Velhe. Those who have an irrigation facility are managing to water the crops, while other crops are getting damaged,” said Dnyaneshwar Bote, district agriculture officer.
Budget
Rs 1 lakh crore fund set up for modern agriculture infrastructure will benefit mandis too: PM Modiedit
DNA India – Online
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated multiple development projects in Varanasi on July15. He said, “Centre has recently taken a major decision to empower agriculture infrastructure. The Rs 1 Lakh Crore special fund set up for the modern agriculture infrastrcuture will benefit our agriculture mandis too. This is a major step towards making the nation’s mandi system modern”.
Dams and Indian Agriculture
Give priority to build check dams, farmers tell agri ministeredit
The Times Of India – Online
Farmers from five districts including Trichy on Thursday urged the state government to give importance to constructing check dams across the Cauvery and Kollidam rivers in the first separate budget for agriculture. A day after taking suggestions from farmers in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagappattinam and Mayiladuthurai, agriculture minister M R K Panneerselvam met farmers from Trichy, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Karur and Pudukottai to record their views. Municipal administration minister K N Nehru said the suggestions to construct more check dams to recharge ground water level was the major demand of farmers at the meeting convened at the Trichy collector’s office. The farmers also sought concrete plans to providing electricity connections and fixing a profitable minimum ...
Technology in Agriculture
India’s new geospatial norms pave way for agri boostedit
Money Control – Online
By 2050, around 9.74 billion people are estimated to be inhabiting this planet and the requirement for food is expected to increase proportionately as well. To meet the ever-growing food demand and simultaneously address public concerns for the environment, experts suggest greater use of precision technology in agriculture. Precision farming combines the power of artificial intelligence (AI), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and Big Data. It is efficient, climate-smart, and nutrition-sensitive.
India least ready for automationedit
The Hans India – Online
India joins Bangladesh and Pakistan among the countries most vulnerable and least prepared for automation in the Asia-Pacific region with construction, agriculture and mining sectors being the most at-risk, a new report showed. In particular, India ranks fifth highest in terms of the impact from automation and ninth in terms of their level preparedness for this impact. The country faces a greater likelihood of being impacted by automation due to larger employment shares in agriculture, manufacturing, and construction, all identified as high-risk industries, according to report by California-based software company Autodesk.
Govt. Policies
PM Kisan Tractor Yojna: Modi government is giving 50% subsidy to farmers to buy tractors, know how to take advantageedit
Money Control – Online
PM Kisan Tractor Yojna: From doubling the income of the farmers, the Modi government is running many schemes for the farmers. Farmers also need many types of machines for agricultural work. In this need, tractor is part of a necessity for farmers. Farmers do work like plowing and planting etc. with tractor. However, there are many farmers in India who do not have a tractor due to financial constraints. In such a situation, they hire tractors or use oxen for farm work.
The story of policies and farmers working togetheredit
The North Lines – Online
Two major recent changes, coming in quick succession, which are directly related to the farm sector initiatives of the Modi’s Government bode well for a further push for sectoral economic growth and are likely to improve incomes and create surplus value for farmers across the country. The first one is the move to entrust the responsibility of Cooperation based on the theme of “Sahakar Se Samriddhi” (Prosperity through Cooperation) to an experienced Cooperative movement veteran like Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and the other is the decision to bring the Mandis or the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees under the purview of the Rs 1 lakh crore Agri Infrastructure Fund (AIF) as part of the ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
In the last 9 lakh years, atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming have shaped Indian monsoonsedit
Bloomberg Quint – Online
The Indian summer monsoon supplies the majority of water for agriculture and industry in South Asia and is vital to the wellbeing of 1.4 billion people. Active and break periods in the monsoon have a major influence on the success of farming, while year-to-year variations in the rainfall have economic consequences on an international scale. Understanding the impacts of climate change on monsoon is critical. Clemens added that the numerical models that seek to understand how the monsoon is going to change in the future are calibrated to the modern climate and then “simulate the future by changing the conditions, for example, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.”
Rains help farmers take up farm works in brisk manner in APedit
Deccan Chronicle – Online
Rainfall under the influence of southwest monsoon in the last few days is helping farmers take up sowing of various crops in a brisk manner during the present kharif season in Andhra Pradesh. AP received average rainfall of 180.6mm against the normal 154.2mm, it going up by 17.1 per cent from June 1 to July 14. Districts like Anantapur, Chittoor and Kadapa received excess rainfall of 60 per cent while Kurnool got it in excess by 20 per cent to 59 per cent.
Silage
A bank to ease fodder shortage opens in Gannavaramedit
The Hans India – Online
A fodder bank and skill-based training facility, supported by Indian Oil under its CSR programme, was inaugurated at the Livestock Farm Complex, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram on Thursday. RSS Rao, Executive Director and State Head of IndianOil – Telangana and Andhra Pradesh inaugurated the fodder bank in the presence of Dr T Ravikumar, Associate Dean, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Dr CH Venkata Sesiah, Prof & Head, Livestock Farm Complex, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Phani Rammohan, Chief General Manager (HR), IndianOil and G Swaminathan, General Manager (CSR), IndianOil.