Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Sustainable Agriculture: What we know and how to scale upedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Arguably, the Green Revolution remains the most defining phase of Indian agriculture in the last century. An input-intensive and technology-focused approach helped India avert potential famines and meet its food security needs by reducing food imports. While the Green Revolution has ensured India’s self-sufficiency for our cereal needs and has touched most Indian farmers, its long-term impacts are now visibly evident. Be it degrading topsoil, declining groundwater levels, contaminating water bodies, and reducing biodiversity. Crop yields are unable to sustain themselves without increased fertiliser use. Fragmented land holdings and associated low farm incomes are pushing many smallholders towards non-farm economic activities.
Technology in Agriculture
Digital Transformation-Indian Talent (IT)+ Information Technology (IT) = India Tomorrow (IT)edit
BusinessWorld – Online
The flagship program not only elevated India’s workforce across domains to online virtual medium but also established a strong connectivity between the government and India’s last mile. The program enabled better services for education, health care and agriculture, thus helping to ensure transparency and accountability, all leveraging technology to the next level.
Herein we will delve deeper to investigate how the Central Government mandate of digitally transforming the nation impacted our economy for greater and better governance touching millions of lives of the country.
Startup mantra: Green marriage of farming and tech fertilised by innovative marketplaceedit
Hindustan Times – Online
PUNE Ecozen Solutions, a Pune-based agri-tech startup founded by three IIT Kharagpur graduates is developing a perishables-friendly marketplace, by empowering farmers through solar-power, accessible and affordable cold storage facilities and pump-motor controllers for irrigation. Enabled by clean and innovative technology, this company is also reducing carbon footprints and farm-produce wastage.
Govt. Policies
Good news for farmers! Modi govt launches Kisan Sarathi scheme; check out benefits & other detailsedit
Lokmat – Online
To increase the income of farmers, the Modi government has launched the digitalplatform Kisan Sarathi. On this digital platform, farmers will be informed aboutcrops and other matters, that too in their own language. Also with this digitalplatform, farmers will be able to sell their crops and vegetables properly in themarket. Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Electronicsand Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav jointly launched the KisanSarathi digital platform through video conferencing.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
India’s monsoon crop area shrinks by 12% this year as rain play hide-n-seekedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The farmers in India have planted monsoon crops such as rice, cotton and soybeans on 61.19 million hectares (151 million acres) of land as of July 16, a decline of 12% from a year earlier, according to a report. Quoting the Union agriculture ministry, a Bloomberg report said that the crop-sown for monsoon has witnessed a decline as area under sugarcane has risen almost 1.7% to 5.37 million hectares so far this year. For cotton, the crop has been planted in 9.84 million hectares, down 13% from a year earlier, the ministry said late Friday.