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Agriculture Industry
Punjab food dept seeks paddy yield of districts to start new payment systemedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The Punjab food and civil supplies department has asked the state’s agriculture department to provide district-wise estimated paddy yield for the last procurement season. This will help the state meet norms that call for integrating land records with the food grain procurement, which is scheduled to start from October 1. The system is being implemented for the first time in state. The Centre has mandated Punjab and other paddy growing states to link procurement to farmers’ land and to the yield to check bogus billing and the malpractice of adding previous seasons’ produce to the current procurement. On getting the average figures, per acre purchase by state purchase agencies and the Food Corporation of India ...
CM KCR likely to announce special plan for farm sector: Niranjan Reddyedit
Telangana Today – Online
Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy emphasised the need to bring radical changes in farming and asked farmers to focus on cultivating all types of crops, instead of paddy alone. He instructed the officials to expedite the crop enumeration which was started on August 15 and conduct field visits to complete it within next 10 days. Based on the report submitted, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will announce a special plan for agricultural progress in the State. The Minister reviewed Vaanakalam (Kharif) crop acreage, crop pattern, production and paddy procurement during the monsoon season at the office of Agriculture Commissioner in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Tomar asks industry to make affordable farm tools, machines for farmersedit
Business Standard – Online
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday asked members of farm mechanisation industry body TMA to manufacture affordable tools and machines so that small and marginal farmers are able to purchase them. Addressing the annual meeting of Tractor and Mechanization Association (TMA) here, the minister also asked the industry to focus on increasing the exports of agriculture implements.
CLAAS Mentions
Agricultural Machinery Market in India to Record Growth Worth $ 1.87 billion with AGCO Corp., and Amalgamations Group Holding Dominant Positions in the Vendor Landscape | 17,000+ Technavio Research Reportsedit
PR News Wire – Online
The agricultural machinery market in India report is segmented by product (tractors, harvesting machinery, haying machinery, planting and fertilizing machinery, and others). The agricultural machinery market share growth in India by the tractors segment will be significant during the forecast period. Companies Mentioned with their Offerings: AGCO Corp, Amalgamations Group, CLAAS Group, CNH Industrial NV, Deere & Co.
Events
Tractor and Mechanization Association’s Annual General Meeting Held in Delhi Todayedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The Tractor and Mechanization Association (TMA), an industry-led, non-profit, agriculture mechanization organization held it’s Annual General Meeting, today (8 September 2021) at Le Meridien, Windsor Pl, Connaught Place, New Delhi under the theme, “Agriculture Mechanization-The Essential Driver For Self Reliant Agriculture”. The Chief Guest, Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare started the Annual General Meeting with the launch of a video containing the information about TMA’s vision, mission, statement & tagline.
Govt. Policies
Subsidy on Agricultural Machinery: Get 50% Subsidy on These Farm Machines for Harvestingedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
In India, 70% of the population is associated with the Agriculture Sector. Moreover, 51% of the total area in the country is cultivated. This means agriculture is done on half of the land of the country. As most of the people in rural areas are involved in agriculture activities hence the government has been making continuous efforts to help them. Farm machinery plays an important role in agriculture & horticulture but to increase production & reduce costs, many schemes are being run for the farmers by the Central & State Government. Agricultural machinery is provided to the farmers on subsidy (grant). The objective of the government behind providing agricultural machinery on subsidy is to help ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Excessive rainfall in September may damage kharif crops, say expertsedit
The Economic Times – Online
The above normal rainfall in September as forecast by Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) will impact the kharif crop if it is not spread out evenly. Agricultural experts said that rains are now helping oilseed crops like soyabean and groundnut, pulses, paddy, bajra, maize and cotton, but if the rains are excessive and continue till the end of September, then it will damage crops, sending their prices up. While the kharif season began on a good note with timely monsoon and good sowing, patchy rains in July and August in certain parts of the country slowed down the pace of sowing. As of September 2, kharif crops have been planted on 108.15 million hectares, down ...
Stubble Burning
Agriculture department will honor 16 villages that do not plant paddy, strict action will be taken on burning stubbleedit
Jagran – Online
Deputy Commissioner Pradeep Godara has called upon the paddy producing farmers of the district not to burn stubble. He has said to donate the stubble in the cowshed or use it as fodder at home. Legal action will be taken against any person who burns stubble after harvesting paddy. Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture Department, Dr. After a video conference conversation with Sumedha Mishra, the Deputy Commissioner said that by burning stubble, the fertile elements of the land are destroyed. Due to this pollution spreads and many animals lose their lives. The Deputy Commissioner said that the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare will run a special campaign to make the farmers aware. There are 16 villages ...
Stubble burning, air pollution on agenda as Delhi environment minister chairs key meet todayedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai has called a high-level meeting on September 9 to discuss a strategy to deal with stubble burning and pollution in the city in winter, officials had said on Wednesday. Notably, every winter, Delhi witnesses a surge in air pollution levels due to many reasons, including stubble burning in neighbouring states. “The (environment) minister has called a high-level meeting tomorrow (Thursday) with senior officers from Delhi Pollution Control Committee, environment department and forest department,” an official said.