Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Ranipet farmers may go on warpath to demand opening of DPCs for paddyedit
DT Next – Online
Despite highlighting their grievances to Ranipet Collector AR Gladstone Pushparaj, the ryots received no firm commitment on opening of DPCs. Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangam state youth wing president R Subash said, “officials only focus on the samba and kuruvai paddy seasons not understanding that paddy harvested in the recently concluded sornavari season is lying in the open as farmers lack space to store huge amounts of paddy.” This has resulted in paddy becoming wet due to daily rains. “Farmers are forced to dry paddy in any available area including roads, on tractor-trailers and even near village cremation sheds as the district is woefully short of drying sheds,” opined the association’s district treasurer N Rajamanickam.
How cooperative societies are important for the agriculture sector?edit
Devdiscourse – Online
There has always been a lot of thrust on cooperative societies in developing countries, but have they lived up to their hype. There are some examples of success such as Grameen Bank in Bangladesh or Amul in India, but on a bigger landscape even the developing world is has been overrun by private enterprises. The video explores the effect of cooperatives in Kenya. Watch the video to know how it did in the country.
Farm debt weight: Rs 71,305 crore in Punjab, Rs 78,311 crore in Haryanaedit
The Times Of India – Online
In the run-up to the Punjab assembly polls when questions are being raised over the state government’s unfulfilled election promise of complete farm loan waiver to nearly 15 lakh farmers in the state, as per the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) over 21.49 lakh bank accounts of Punjab have outstanding agriculture loans amounting to Rs 71,305 crore. Union minister of state for finance Bhagwat Karad shared this information in the ongoing monsoon session of the parliament on Monday. However, Karad made it clear, “There is no proposal under consideration of the Union government to waive farm loans.”
At Jantar Mantar, Women Farmers hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; Highlight their role in Agricultureedit
News Click – Online
A contingent of women farmers from Delhi’s neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana gathered on Monday at Jantar Mantar in the national capital for the ‘Kisan Sansad’ marking the completion of eight months of the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s farm laws. Nearly 200 in strength, as allowed by the Delhi government, the women protested at Jantar Mantar and raised slogans demanding the scrapping of the three farm laws — the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
Hit by pandemic and restrictions, Kerala’s first agriculture theme park gasps for breathedit
The New Indian Express – Online
A walk via sinuous walkways leading through a wide variety of flora and fauna is undoubtedly a peaceful experience for all who come to Mango Meadows agriculture theme park in Kaduthuruthy in Kottayam. However, Covid has cast a shadow over the very existence of the park as its operations have gone off the track ever since the pandemic hit the state. The Covid-induced lockdowns and restrictions for the past one-and-a-quarter years have adversely affected the functioning of the park and its operational loss and the pending loans have accumulated to a whopping Rs 25 crore by now.
Technology in Agriculture
Science and technology are critical levers to ensure food and nutritional security in Indiaedit
The Times Of India – Online
Renowned agronomist Dr. Norman Borlaug once said, “you can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery”, a sentiment that holds weight even today, as the world battles a global pandemic. Access to adequate and nutritious food translates to good health, and hence, the key to ensuring a resilient population lies in ensuring food security. Though animal-based foods have better nutritive value with superior digestibility, the water footprint of these is quite high for a tropical country like India to cope with.
Agriculture & Technology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Virtual Conferenceedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Agriculture & Technoloogy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Virtual Conference will be organized by the Alliance Training and Conferencing on 16-17 December 2021. The outbreak of covid has changed the way we do things on daily basis, and it also accelerated the need to embrace technology in the fourth industrial revolution. Compared to other industries, the agriculture sector has been slow to implement and take advantage of the variety of technologies that are powering the fourth industrial revolution .
Govt. Policies
CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy stresses on agriculture infra developmentedit
The Hans India – Online
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officials to be prepared to start second phase works in agriculture and allied sectors and complete the projects in a stipulated time and monitor the progress of works regularly. He reviewed projects regarding development and strengthening of infrastructure facilities in agriculture and allied sectors. The Chief Minister discussed issues related to multipurpose centres, custom hiring centres, food processing, fishing harbours, bulk milk cooling centres whose work are estimated to cost around Rs 16,236 crore.
Steps Taken By The Government To Promote Agriculture Sector In Educationedit
India Education Diary – Online
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has informed that to promote agriculture sector through Education, 63 State Agricultural Universities, 3 Central Agricultural Universities, 4 Deemed to be Universities and 4 Central Universities with agriculture faculty are working in the country. ICAR has also informed that in order to promote agricultural education and attract students in agricultural education, various National/International scholarships are provided to students at different levels.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Uneven monsoon hits total area under Kharif sowing, stokes inflation worriesedit
Business Today – Online
India’s uneven and moody monsoon this year has led to a reduction in the area sown by Kharif crops in the country, adding to the concerns over already-high retail inflation. As per the data of the Indian Meteorological Department or IMD, the rainfall during the monsoon season has been only 1.4 per cent less than normal. However, it has been distributed unevenly, leading to over 3 per cent decrease in area under Kharif sowing as of July 23 over the normal sowing during the same period, as per the Agriculture Ministry’s data.
Stubble Burning
Covid piggybacking on soot? Researchers link stubble burning to Delhi’s 3rd wave in Nov 2020edit
The Print – Online
‘Piggybacking’ on black carbon, a major constituent of soot that pervades Delhi’s air in winter as a result of stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana, the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have spread more aggressively during the third wave in the national capital between October and November last year, a new study has suggested. According to researchers at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune, after a mid-September peak last year, daily cases declined rapidly in Delhi and reduced to nearly 12 per cent of peak count with a minimum of about 500 per day. Their study adds that with the onset of the stubble burning period in neighbouring states, however, the declining trend suddenly ...
Tractor industry
Tractorisation in India high, but agriculture mechanisation lowedit
CNBC TV18 – Online
The tractor industry in India registered an increase in sales by more than 40 percent in 2020 as compared to 2019. And to all of our surprises, this was recorded when we were hit by a global pandemic and all the other segments were performing poorly. In fact, 2020-21 has been dynamic for this sector as the tractor industry witnessed the highest ever sale of about 9 lakh units. Now while these numbers are a good sign of tractor penetration in India, only ‘tractorisation’ is not agriculture mechanisation. In fact, mechanisation in agriculture is very low in our country.