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Global Crop & Grain Harvesting Machinery Market 2021 Industry Opportunities, Challenges, Value Chain and Sales Channels Analysis 2026edit
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CLAAS Mentions
Amarinder, German envoy discuss trade, investment opportunities in Punjabedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh has extended his government’s full support to German ambassador to India, Walter J. Lindner, who evinced keen interest in investing in key sectors of mobility, engineering, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and renewable energy in the state. During the meeting, Amarinder highlighted the major reforms undertaken by the state government to boost ease of investment and business. He also invited more German entrepreneurs to come and experience the investor-friendly ecosystem in the state, which is already home to multiple German companies, including Metro Cash and Carry, Hella, CLAAS and Vibracoustics.
Dams and Indian Agriculture
Dry Telengiri dam has farmers in distressedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Low water level in the Telengiri dam has left farmers in the project’s tail end in distress as paddy transplantation for the kharif season has been badly hit. Telengiri project was releasing water on trial basis since 2019 and only started full-fledged operation since July 12 this year. However, till now, irrigation water has not reached over 1,000 ha land in tail end villages including Takiguda, Badigaon , Mandiabandh, Semela, Gadavaguda, Kumuli, Gumunda, Bhumiyaguda, Katharagada Mandiabandh and Badiguda.
Technology in Agriculture
Technology to Reduce Economic Losses in Agriculture Due to Wildlife Attacksedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Building a technological solution that attacks the olfactory, cognitive and auditory system of wild animals causing a behavioral change in them to avoid the agricultural land areas. Building a technological Early Warning system that predicts and informs the farmers or landowners on animal movement nearby the agricultural land. Building high-impact electrical solutions that cause extensive damage to the animal thereby pushing it away from the agricultural land. Resolving the food availability issue of animals by pushing them to a certain piece of land where food is grown for them thus avoiding their presence nearby the farmers’ land areas.
Govt. Policies
Govt aims to create national farmers database using digital land records: Narendra Singh Tomaredit
The Economic Times – Online
The government is aiming to create a federated National Farmers Database using digitised land records that will help to offer proactive and personalised services to farmers, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Tuesday. The agriculture ministry has already commenced the work of creating ‘Agristack’ — a digital ecosystem of agriculture — in the country that should help the government in effective planning towards increasing the income of farmers in particular and improving the efficiency of the agriculture sector as a whole.
Harvest Machine
Top 5 Combine Harvesters in India – Details Insideedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
India is the world’s largest agricultural country providing employment to more than half of the population. Farming also plays a vital role in the country’s economy, accounting for around 17% of overall GDP and employing more than 60% of the people. The majority of farming was done by hand or by human labor in the past. However, as the economy grew, so did this important sector.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Farm operations surpass last Vaanakalam’s recordsedit
Telengana Today – Online
With widespread rains and various water bodies brimming with water, crop cultivation in Telangana State has surpassed last year’s cultivation area as on date. Sowing operations have been completed in about 82.49 lakh acres covering nearly 70.7 per cent of the normal cultivation area of 1.16 crore acres for Vaanakalam (Kharif) season this year. During the corresponding period last year, the sowing operations were taken up in about 79 lakh acres.
Inadequate rain pushes three states behind kharif sowing scheduleedit
The New Indian Express – Online
At least three states – Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh – have so far witnessed a shortfall in the sowing of kharif crops owing to scanty rainfall. The worst affected is Maharashtra, where parts have received inadequate rainfall in contrast to the western parts reeling under floods. Around 30% of the state’s cultivable land is used for jowar, bajra and pulses. Due to inadequate rainfall, sowing has been possible in less than 50% of the land, raising the spectre of a significant fall in its annual produce of food grains. Rain has been satisfactory in regions cultivating oil seeds and cotton, though.
Mercurial monsoon leaves Odisha farmers high and dry, kharif crops hitedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Even as extreme rainfall activity is wreaking havoc in many parts of the country, Odisha, a usual suspect, is facing a situation to the contrary, so much so that deficient rainfall has begun to cast a shadow on agriculture activities. Kharif operations have been considerably delayed in many districts owing to scanty rainfall. The State has recorded a deficient rainfall of 29 pc till July 24. It received an average 89.5 mm rainfall against the normal of 252.2 mm in July, resulting in less area coverage under kharif crop.
Kharif sowing picking up, early to gauge impact of stalled monsoon: Tomaredit
Financial Express – Online
t is too early to gauge the impact on the summer crop output of the monsoon stalling for three weeks till July 11, the government said in Parliament on Tuesday, while admitting that the recent floods had damaged 2.02 lakh hectare of crop area. Kharif sowing has picked up in almost all major states with the advancement of monsoon, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
Bihar farmers stare at huge loss of Kharif crops due to erratic monsoon rainfalledit
Down To Earth – Online
The rainfall was very heavy in parts of the state and scanty in others, because of which the cultivators have not been able to transplant paddy seedlings or sow maize seeds. Around 50 per cent of the farmlands was still unused till July 27, 2021, according to official records. Kharif is the main crop of farmers in the state: It gives economic sustenance to thousands of families dependent on agriculture for survival. The late transplantation of paddy crops caused by erratic rainfall may lead to crop yield loss of up to 50 per cent in the eastern state, agricultural experts estimated.