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Agriculture Industry
Procurement six weeks away; Punjab yet to integrate land record of 40% of its farmersedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Chandigarh With the Centre pushing for mandatory land record integration with food grain procurement from this kharif season (October and November), the Punjab government has, to date, completed this process for only 60% of 10.5 lakh farmers in the state. Compilation of details of the remaining 40% farmers is a challenge, as clear and authentic data on farmers engaged in agriculture on leased land is not available. “From September, we will start camps in mandis along with the arhtiyas to get the remaining data. There are 33,000 arhtiyas in the state and all farmers are linked to them. We want data to be matched before the start of (kharif) procurement,” said an officer of the ...
Govt. Policies
J’khand: Unique ID cards for farmers under new ‘Birsa Kisan’ initiativeedit
Hindustan Times – Online
In a first of its kind initiative, the Jharkhand agriculture department is working on issuing unique identity cards to lakhs of eligible farmers in the state to smoothen the process of providing all kinds of assistance, including direct benefit transfer, distribution of seeds and fertilizers and agricultural loan, officials concerned said on Wednesday. Under the new initiative, named Birsa Kisan, the agriculture department would come up with a dedicated portal containing records of all registered farmers and a chip-based identity card would be issued to them, which would also help in weeding out “ghost farmers” in the state, officials said.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Odisha stares at drought, government looks at contingency plans to save cropsedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Odisha stares at a possible drought-like situation as 23 out of 30 districts are, currently, experiencing deficient rainfall of more than 20 percent and moisture stress condition. With the monsoon playing truant and low pressures in the Bay of Bengal, the last hope of the farmers to bring relief not triggering rains, kharif operation has come to a standstill in many parts of the State. The average rainfall in July which was 21 percent less than the normal of 340 mm has further aggravated the situation in August.
Stubble Burning
Haryana’s waste-to-energy plants may be key to resolve stubble burning issueedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Waste-to-energy plants being set up across Haryana may prove a game-changer to deal with the stubble burning menace by not only generating energy and employment but also providing additional income from the crop waste. Setting up of these plants is near completion and the plants will purchase paddy straw from farmers from this Kharif season. As per officials of the Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA), total four paddy straw-based biomass power projects are being set up in state one each in Kurukshetra (15MW), Kaithal (15MW), Jind (9.9MW) and Fatehabad (9.9MW). The fifth plant is being set up at the IOCL’s Panipat refinery and will generate ethanol from paddy waste.
Tractor industry
VST Tillers Tractors Ltd leads gainers in ‘A’ groupedit
Business Standard – Online
Aster DM Healthcare Ltd, United Breweries Ltd, Kaveri Seed Company Ltd and Mindtree Ltd are among the other gainers in the BSE’s ‘A’ group today, 18 August 2021. Aster DM Healthcare Ltd, United Breweries Ltd, Kaveri Seed Company Ltd and Mindtree Ltd are among the other gainers in the BSE’s ‘A’ group today, 18 August 2021. VST Tillers Tractors Ltd surged 11.19% to Rs 2468.45 at 11:49 IST. The stock was the biggest gainer in the BSE’s ‘A’ group. On the BSE, 30115 shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 2376 shares in the past one month.