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Agriculture Industry
Congress will back paddy farmers, says Mohammed Ali Shabbiredit
The New Indian Express – Online
Senior Congress leader Mohammed Ali Shabbir has warned the TRS government against increasing the power tariff and RTC fares. He also announced that the Congress would wage a legal battle, if required, to defend the rights and interests of paddy farmers. Addressing a review meet of the party at Bibipet mandal in Kamareddy district on Sunday, Shabbir Ali alleged that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was creating economic problems for all sections of the society so as to strengthen his grip on the State. He said in view of good rainfall, lakhs of paddy farmers were expecting a good yield and profits in Yasangi season. “Since KCR apparently hates to see happiness on ...
Farm Mechanization
Machines to control stubble not reaching farmers, claims Ugrahanedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Sangrur Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) (Ekta-Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan has accused the Punjab government of not providing agriculture machinery to control stubble to all farmers who had applied earlier. He even accused officials of wanting to grab funds under the garb of inviting new applications. “Over 62,000 farmers applied for 1.71 lakh machines, but only 10,297 applications for 31,970 machines were accepted. The machines actually given to farmers were 10,019 machines,” Ugrahan said, adding that the Centre sent ₹346 cr for 2021-22, but the state government used only Rs106cr, with another Rs240 cr pending with the Punjab government.
Technology in Agriculture
HPAU to make use of new-age tech to solve challenges in farm sector: V-Cedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University (HPAU), Palampur, will use new-age digital technology to serve farmers effectively, vice-chancellor Prof HK Chaudhary said on Monday while speaking at the 44th Foundation Day event of the varsity. Prof Chaudhary said the HPAU was facing a staff crunch and with the implementation of National Education Policy (NEP), many more challenges are likely to emerge which would be dealt with the use of technology and improved staff strength. “Besides recruiting 40 new faculty members, various non-teaching posts will be filled in the all-India coordinated research projects soon,” he said.
Paddy in India
Nagaland paddy farmers worry over drought-like conditionsedit
DTE – Online
The production of paddy in Nagaland, mostly grown for self-consumption, has been severely affected due to persistent drought-like conditions in the hilly state. This has caused distress among farmers and their families. The rainfall patterns in the region have considerably changed, and the state is drying up. It has been experiencing a drought-like situation due to deficit rainfall this year. Most households don’t have any mechanism to store water and depend on rivers and rivulets for water supply to their fields. “But the water bodies have gone dry. The sowing of paddy starts in June. It is harvested in November. But most farmers couldn’t sow because of the shortage of rainfall,” said Seyie Kuotsu (35), a ...
Nalgonda: Do not take up paddy harvest without getting tokens, farmers toldedit
Telangana Today – Online
The district police on Monday made several suggestions to the farmers to avoid pile up of the paddy-loaded tractors at the rice mills and market yards. In view of piling up of 200 paddy loaded tractors at Chillapalli bridge in Nereducherla mandal of Suryapet mandal, police has asked the farmers not to take up harvesting the paddy crop without getting the tokens issued by civil supplies department fixing a date to them. Paddy loaded tractors, which were coming to the Agricultural market of Miryalaguda from Nereducherla, have piled up at Chillapalli bridge and at some of the rice mills. The situation arose due to the farmers taking up harvesting without heeding to the advise of ...
Advice of agricultural scientists to farmers, prepare fields for wheat after harvesting paddyedit
Jagran – Online
Agricultural scientists of Prayagraj have given knowledgeable information about better farming to the farmers. Farmers will benefit by doing farming as per the advice of agricultural scientists. This will also improve the production of crops. Along with this, you will also be able to avoid farming related problems. This advice has been given to the farmers by agricultural scientists of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Science (SHUAT), Naini.
Stubble Burning
Punjab’s first bio-CNG plant starts paddy straw collectionedit
The Times Of India – Online
Punjab’s first stubble-based bio-CNG plant has started collection of paddy straw from the agricultural fields from its surrounding villages even as the commissioning of the plant is expected for January 2022. The officials at the compressed biogas (CBG) plant at Bhutal Kalan village of Lehragaga in Sangrur have already collected around 10,000 MT of paddy straw for their operations to produce biogas and manure. The plant is one of the largest CBG plants that will produce more than 33 tonnes of CBG or bio-CNG per day and is capable of collecting and utilizing over 1 lakh tonne of paddy residue each year. However, following delay in the harvest this year due to untimely ...
Stubble Management: In Yamunanagar, farmers are giving preference to the management of crop residues, less cases of stubble burningedit
Jagran – Online
The farmers of Yamunanagar are giving priority to the management of crop residues. The figures testify to this. Last year, there were 248 challans for burning stubble. Six lakh 35 thousand rupees were fined. At the same time, this time only 47 challans were done. One lakh 75 thousand fine has been imposed so far. If we talk about the last three years, then this time the challans have been the least. Please tell that there was about 88 thousand hectares in the district. Harvesting has been done on about 82 thousand hectares. In Sadhaura and Bilaspur areas, some areas remain under paddy.
Air pollution: Awareness campaign ineffective, stubble burning fiercelyedit
Bhaskar– Online
The officials of the Agriculture Department are working hard to ensure that farmers do not burn crop residues. Through village-to-village camps, farmers are being informed in detail about the damage caused by burning crop residues The farmers who burn crop residues are also being monitored by satellite. Fines are also being imposed. Despite this, all the efforts of the department were not successful. Farmers are burning paddy residue every day. Committees have also been constituted by the administration to ensure that farmers do not burn crop residues. But still the smoke of crop residues can be seen rising in the sky throughout the day. Block Agriculture Officer Dr. Rakesh Aggarwal says that apart from spreading air pollution ...