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Agriculture Industry
Centre postpones paddy buying in Punjab, Haryana till Oct 11 due to rainsedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The Centre on Thursday postponed procurement of paddy in Punjab and Haryana till October 11 as the crop maturity is delayed owing to recent heavy rains. Paddy procurement for 2021-22 kharif marketing season in Punjab was to commence from October 1, while in Haryana it officially started from September 25. The procurement operation is undertaken by the central government’s nodal agency Food Corporation of India (FCI) along with state agencies.
Unique technology for direct generation of hydrogen from agricultural residue developededit
Devdiscourse – Online
Indian researchers have developed a unique technology for direct generation of hydrogen from agricultural residue, the Department of Science and Technology said on Thursday. This innovation by the researchers can promote eco-friendly hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles by overcoming the challenge of hydrogen availability, it added. A team of researchers from Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, a DST institute, in collaboration with sentient labs of KPIT Technologies, have developed this technology at lab-scale to extract hydrogen from agricultural residues. ”Our technology is 25 per cent more efficient as compared to conventional anaerobic digestion processes used today. The two-stage process eliminates the pretreatment of biomass, thus making the process economical and environment friendly.
Compressed Biogas: Opportunities Galore for India’s Agriculture Industryedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
India, an economy dominated by agrarian activities, almost has a contribution of 16% to the GDP from agriculture and engages roughly 58% of the population. It is also estimated that the waste generated from the Indian Agriculture Sector can have a total contribution of 18,000 MW of power every year, in addition to yielding green fertilizers which is a common use of these wastes. The immense potential of these wastes lies in producing energy in the form of biogas, syngas, electricity, and much more. In its roadmap to achieve Energy AtmaNirbhar, the Government of India has launched multiple schemes for the optimal conversion of waste to energy.
Balers
Baler Machine: बेलर मशीन दिलाएगी पराली की समस्या से छुटकारा, यूपी के किसानों को ऐसे मिलेगा फायदाedit
Aaj Tak – Online
खरीफ के फसलों की कटाई बेहद नजदीक आ गई है. इसके साथ ही किसानों द्वारा खेतों में पराली जलाने को लेकर सरकार की चिंताएं भी बढ़ गई है. विभिन्न तरीकों से किसानों को ऐसा न करने के लिए जागरूक भी किया जा रहा है. इस बीच चंदौली में किसानों को पराली की समस्या से निजात दिलाने के लिए 26 लाख रुपए में एक बेलर मशीन की खरीद की गई है. कैसे काम करता है बेलर मशीन दरअसल बेलर मशीन एक ऐसा कृषि यंत्र है जो पराली को खेतों से इकट्ठा कर के छोटे-छटे गट्ठर बना देता है. इससे एक घंटे में तकरीबन एक एकड़ खेत से पराली को हटाया जा सकता है. सरकार की तरफ ...
Competition
Escorts Agri Machinery sells 8,816 tractors in Septemberedit
Business Standard – Online
Escorts Agri Machinery Segment in September 2021 sold 8,816 tractors as against 11,851 tractors sold in September 2020, a drop of 25.6% year-on-year and growth of 54.9% on month-on-month basis. Domestic tractor sales in September 2021 was at 7,975 tractors as against 11,453 tractors in September 2020. With record monsoon activity in September, this year’s rainfall deficit has largely been recovered, which augurs well for industry in the upcoming months.
Govt. Policies
Govt directs agri-machine makers, dealers to sell at the same price: MoS agriedit
Business Standard – Online
Farm machine makers and dealers have been directed to sell their products at the same price across the country, Union Minister of State for Agriculture Shobha Karandlaje said on Thursday. The minister made this statement in Goa during a review meeting with the state’s Agriculture Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar and officials on the implementation of centrally sponsored farm schemes. Karandlaje lauded state Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and the state’s agriculture minister for doing “amazing work” for the better implementation of the farmers’ welfare in Goa.
Harvest Machine
सुपर मैनेजमेंट स्ट्रा के बिना धान कटाई की तो कंबाइन हार्वेस्टर होगी जब्तedit
Jagran – Online
पराली-पत्ती जलाने से रोकने के लिए कृषि विभाग सतर्क हो गया है। उप निदेशक कृषि ने कंबाइन हार्वेस्टर मालिकों के साथ बैठक की और कहा कि धान की फसल की कटाई सुपर मैनेजमेंट स्ट्रा लगाकर ही की जाए। अगर ऐसा नहीं होता है तो कंबाइन हार्वेस्टर को जब्त कर लिया जाएगा। उप निदेशक कृषि डा. शिवकुमार केसरी ने बताया कि जिले में 25 कंबाइन हार्वेस्टर हैं। अक्सर धान की फसल को बिना सुपर मैनेजमेंट स्ट्रा लगाए काटा जता है, जिससे धान निकल जाता है और अवशेष फसल खड़ी रह जाती है। किसान फसल अवशेष में आग लगा देते हैं, जोकि कानूनन अपराध है। जिले के सभी किसानों से अनुरोध है कि कंबाइन हार्वेस्टर सुपर मैनेजमेंट स्ट्रा ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Boost to agriculture: Monsoon set to withdraw from Oct 6edit
The Times Of India – Online
The four-month summer monsoon, which ended as a ‘normal’ rainy season on Thursday and is set to withdraw from October 6, leaves India’s agriculture on a good footing with the levels of soil moisture and water storage in key reservoirs sufficient to support the Rabi or winter crop at a time when the economy is still recovering from Covid. The withdrawal, the second most delayed after 1960, comes at a time when the India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s prediction of a ‘normal’ winter (northeast) monsoon is a hopeful signal for agriculture as it would help the 2021-22 crop year (July-June cycle) to remain on track for a record output of food-grains in the pandemic-hit ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble Burning | How the Green Revolution has left behind grey skiesedit
Money Control – Online
Winter will soon be here but much before that most of North India will be covered by a pall of grey haze and black smog hanging thick in the air. Multiple studies have shown that vehicular emissions, industrial activities, construction dust, burning of coal, firewood and parali (stubble burning), are the main contributors to the deadly air that envelops the cities and chokes its citizens. Between October and November every year the blame for air pollution shifts to the farmers in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, who after harvesting their Kharif crop of rice, take the traditional quick and easy route of parali, and burn the paddy straw and stubble, to prepare their land ...