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Competition
Deere workers would get immediate 10% raises under new offeredit
ET Auto – Online
Union workers at Deere & Co. would get wage increases of 10% in the first year and 5% each in the third and fifth years under a tentative contract reached between the farm-equipment maker and the United Auto Workers union. The workers would get 3% lump sums in the second, fourth and sixth years of the deal. They would also get a ratification bonus of $8,500 and no changes in the cost of their health insurance, according to a summary of the agreement posted Sunday on the union website. The company and the UAW reached a tentative agreement Saturday that would cover more than 10,000 workers at 12 Deere locations in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas. ...
New Holland Agriculture Honored with Three Awards at the Farm Power Awards 2021edit
Krishi Jagran – Online
New Holland Agriculture, a business unit of CNH Industrial (CNHI) has been conferred with Tractor of the Year > 50 HP Award 2021’ for the New Holland 5620 TX at the third edition of the Farm Power Awards. They also bagged awards in the ‘Most Wanted Implement of the Year’ and ‘Best Harvesting Solution of the Year’ categories for the New Holland Square Baler BC5060 and the Forage Cruiser FR500 respectively. Graced by the Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, the prestigious Farm Power Awards are annually presented to recognize efforts of businesses, which have made significant contributions to the sector and impacted the lives of millions of farmers.
Farm Mechanization
Punjab To Verify All Agri-Machines Purchased For Paddy Straw Managementedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Punjab Agriculture Minister Randeep Singh Nabha has appealed to all farmers, cooperatives, and panchayats who have been sanctioned to purchase machinery to present all machines for physical verification on November 1, 2021 at all Block Agricultural Officers’ offices or specified alternate venues. Once the machines have been validated, the procedure for releasing subsidies will begin immediately. He further stated that the subsidy will be distributed to farmers’ or cooperatives’ bank accounts in accordance with the scheme’s parameters.
Technology in Agriculture
EXPLAINED: Data Architecture For Digital Agriculture. What Agristack Push Can Mean For Farming In Indiaedit
News18 – Online
Doubling farm incomes by 2022 has been a much stressed goal of the Narendra Modi government. To achieve that objective, policy circles have spoken of the need for bringing about a ‘Green Revolution 2.0’, the label clearly pointing to a digital base for driving a rise in farm incomes. To that extent, the Centre has started work on ‘Agristack’, a digital ecosystem for end-to-end delivery of services to farmers. However, issues have been flagged regarding the use of data and how it is leveraged, especially with concerns surrounding the digital literacy of the Indian farming community. The introduction of new farm laws to open up the market for agricultural produce has led to months-long protests. So, ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Delayed monsoon withdrawal, wind direction ensure cleanest October air since 2018 in Delhiedit
Financial Express – Online
This October, Delhi witnessed the cleanest air for the month since at least 2018, The Indian Express reported. The average air quality index was 173 during the month, an improvement from last year’s 265. The figures for the corresponding periods in 2019 and 2020 were 233 and 268, respectively. Experts attributed the improvement in air quality to record rainfall this monsoon. Delhi also witnessed record rainfall this October due to the delayed withdrawal of the monsoon current and the presence of a western disturbance.
Stubble Burning
Farm fires: Provide cost-effective tech to farmersedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The Delhi-National Capital Region’s luck with clean air — thanks to an intense and prolonged monsoon— seems to be coming to an end. On Sunday, Punjab reported this harvest season’s highest paddy straw burning instances, 2,895 , even as their tally-to-date of 13,124 remained almost half of that in the corresponding period last year, this newspaper reported on Monday. Nearly 28,000 instances of stubble-burning were reported until October 31 in 2020. But there has been a significant spike in the farm fires in the state over the last three days, with daily cases hovering above 1,000. Punjab officials have said that farm fires are likely to increase in the next two weeks when the paddy ...
Official apathy scalds crusaders against stubble burningedit
The Leaflet – Online
N the absence of adequate safeguards for farmers who stopped burning stubble and preferred selling it in the market, the crusaders who once dissuaded them from the pollution-causing practice have themselves readopted it. After strong protests against the heavy penalties (five-year imprisonment and fine up to Rs 1 crore) prescribed against violation of clause 14, including stubble burning, of The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance, 2020, the Centre added the following line to the clause: “Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any farmer for causing air pollution by stubble burning or mismanagement of agricultural residue.”
Tractor industry
Escorts tractor domestic sales drop 3.3% to 12,749 units in Octoberedit
ET Auto – Online
Farm equipment manufacturer Escorts Agri Machinery on Monday reported a 3.3% decline in domestic tractor sales at 12,749 units in October. The company had sold 13,180 units in October 2020. Total tractor sales during last month stood at 13,514 units as against 13,664 units in October 2020, down 1.1%, Escorts said in a regulatory filing. Escorts Agri Machinery said the festival period of Navratri and Dussehra witnessed good footfalls and delayed sowing and harvesting cycle of the current Rabi crop augurs well for festive retails for industry during November too. “This coupled with overall positive rural sentiments on account of good rainfall, expected good yield and crop production, higher crop MSPs and better retail finance ...