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Mass Awareness Campaign For Large-Scale Dissemination Of Climate Resilient Technologies And Methods Observed At AMUedit
Indian Education Diary – Online
A “Mass Awareness Campaign for Large-Scale Dissemination of Climate Resilient Technologies and Methods” addressed by the Prime Minister of India , Shri Narendra Modi was attended by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University on September 28, 2021, at 11.00AM via video conferencing The programme was represented by Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, AMU through virtual mode under the supervision of Dean Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Prof Rais Ahmad, who welcomed all participants (teaching, non-teaching and farming community) during the virtual programme,
Bringing the states back inedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The recently released Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India, 2019 (SAS) serves as an important reminder of the diverse and regionally specific nature of agriculture in India. Agricultural incomes and the interlinkages between farm and non-farm activity vary significantly by state. Thus, pathways for “doubling farmers income” or enhancing productivity through market competition have to be determined in consonance with state-specific realities. This is the primary reason why agriculture is a state subject and why the Centre’s farm laws are fundamentally flawed.
Challenges like climate change call for farm research to take centre stage, just like during the Green Revolutionedit
The Indian Express – Online
Indian agriculture’s major challenge in the initial decades after Independence was to increase crop production and yields at any cost. Today, it’s about boosting farm incomes, while simultaneously ensuring production that is cost-competitive, resource-use efficient and climate-smart. The release of a new herbicide-tolerant rice variety by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) that can be directly sown, instead of requiring transplantation, is therefore welcome. Farmers transplant and grow paddy in flooded fields mainly to control weeds, which cannot emerge under water that acts as a natural herbicide. The IARI variety contains a mutated gene making the paddy plant “tolerant” to Imazethapyr, a herbicide effective against a wide range of weeds. This chemical when now ...
Agricultural Education Must be Multidisciplinary, Multi-dimensional & Comprehensive: Tomaredit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The Annual Conference of Vice-Chancellors of Agricultural Universities across the country was held at the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Campus, New Delhi. On this occasion, Union Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar who joined the virtual team, said that agriculture education being multidisciplinary, multi-dimensional and comprehensive is very important for the progress of the country.
CLAAS Mentions
India Combine Harvester Market Size, Trends, and Key Companies – Claas India, John Deere India Pvt Ltd, Dasmesh Group, New Hind Agro Pvt Ltd, Preet Group, Mahindra Tractors, Balkar Combinesedit
Stillwater Current – Online
The India Combine Harvester Market report contains a detailed analysis of the current market status, market player, region, type, and application. The report provides an in-depth assessment of growth factors, market definition, manufacturers, market potential, and influencing trends to understand future demand and outlook for the global industry. This study provides information on the India Combine Harvester market size, company share, sales volume, and revenue during the historical and forecast period of 2028.
Competition
Swaraj’s new harvester to enable higher productivity for farmers in Telanganaedit
Telangana Today – Online
Mahindra & Mahindra’s arm Swaraj has launched its new harvester in Telangana. The Swaraj Pro Combine 7060, a tracked harvester, will offer paddy farmers in Telangana with enhanced productivity, performance, and ease of operation, while maximising potential grain yield, for better acreage. Swaraj said, fitted with a new paddy cutter bar, it is also capable of performing efficient cutting of sleeping crops with consistency at comparatively lower costs. Designed and developed to efficiently harvest paddy and soybean the new harvester by Swaraj will enable reaping, threshing, and winnowing of grains efficiently, with minimal grain loss and breakage.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
September rains damage 12% of kharif crops in Maharashtraedit
The Economic Times – Online
Heavy rains caused by Cyclone Gulab in Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have damaged standing crops of soyabean, cotton, onion and urad at many places, at a time when the country has been looking forward to the new crop to tame commodity inflation. Unprecedented rainfall in Marathwada has submerged the soya bean crop. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted formation of Cyclone Shaheen along the Gujarat coast in the next 48 hours, which would continue to pour water along the western coast.
Stubble Burning
एसएमएस वाले कंबाइन हार्वेस्टर से काटें फसल: डीएमedit
Jagran – Online
जिलाधिकारी डा. उज्ज्वल कुमार द्वारा कलेक्ट्रेट सभागार में फसल अवशेष, पराली को प्रबंधन के लिए कंबाइन मशीन मालिकों के साथ बैठक की। इस दौरान जिलाधिकारी ने कंपाइन मशीन मालिकों को सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आदेश का अनुपालन करने के लिए निर्देशित किया। साथ ही खेतों में पराली नहीं जलाने के लिए, भूमि को स्वच्छ एवं समृद्ध तथा पर्यावरण को बचाने के उद्देश्य से कंपाइन मालिकों को शपथ दिलाई गई। जिलाधिकारी ने कहा कि हर हाल में कंपाइन मशीन में सुपर स्ट्रा मैनेजमेंट सिस्टम (एसएमएस) लगवा कर ही फसल न काटें। किसानों से कम चार्ज के लिए सहयोगात्मक विचार किए जाए। जिससे किसानों को आर्थिक नुकसान कम हो। जिलाधिकारी ने जिला कृषि अधिकारी को निर्देशित किया कि ब्लाक ...
Kejriwal meets industrialists in Ludhianaedit
Devdiscourse – Online
He spoke about the initiatives taken by his government in Delhi and incentives given to industrialists there.AAP leaders Jarnail Singh, Bhagwant Mann, Raghav Chadha and Harpal Singh Cheema were present during the meeting. Earlier, Kejriwal faced a protest from a group of people here who raised slogans against him.The protestors tried to stop his car when his convoy was entering the main gate of the hotel where he was going to stay, sources said.The protestors accused Kejriwal of not having a clear stand on issues of river waters and stubble burning.
Delhi: Centre ramps up efforts to ensure better air qualityedit
The WEEK – Online
Winter is coming, and, with it, the prospect of smoggy days in the national capital. A lot of preparations have been afoot to ensure that the air quality remains better than in previous years. This year, the government discouraged farmers from growing the P 44 rice crop (a tall plant that produces a lot of crop waste). It has popularised in-situ bio-digesters, a solution that was designed by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, and which converts crop stubble into biomass that can be ploughed back into the fields. The centre has also created a market for crop waste — selling it as fodder to shepherds and cowherds in the Rajasthan -Kutch area (after fortifying ...
Tractor industry
Get Subsidy up to Rs. 1 Lakh to Buy Tractoredit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Tractor is the most important agricultural machinery for farmers. Farming becomes easy by connecting multiple implements with a tractor. Tractor also plays an important role in the preparation of the field. Tractor saves both time and labor. But many farmers whose economic condition is weak, are not able to buy it. Keeping this in mind, the subsidy is given by the government to such farmers to buy tractors. This subsidy is provided by different state governments as per the rules set by them. Generally, 20% to 50% subsidy is given by the government for the purchase of tractors. In this, priority is given to women and farmers belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.