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Agriculture Industry
Climate of North-East region favourable for agriculture: NS Tomaredit
Devdiscourse – Online
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar virtually inaugurated the Kisan Bhawan and Beekeeper Conference at the Central Institute of Horticulture, Nagaland. Shri Tomar, in his deliberation, expressed that bringing a change in the lives of small and medium farmers is a major goal of the Central Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. In this program organized under the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi, Shri Tomar said that the climate of the North-East region is favourable for agriculture. The area is ideal for the cultivation of horticultural crops especially fruits and vegetables, flowers and spices. Keeping in view the interests of the small and marginal farmers of the North Eastern Region ...
Competition
Swaraj Tractors unveils mechanised solution to scale up horticulture spaceedit
ET Auto – Online
Swaraj Tractors, a part of Mahindra Group, on Thursday unveiled an indigenously designed multi-purpose farm mechanisation solution to scale up horticulture segment in the country. Christened as CODE, the solution is conceived with the idea of eliminating drudgery of labour involved in horticulture farming. The narrowest and the lightest ride-on machine, the 12 HP (petrol powered) CODE aims to revolutionise horticulture farming in India allowing farmers to carry out operations in narrow rows for various vegetable and fruit crops. Additionally, the shorter turning radius of this machine provides better maneuverability in smaller farms cultivating horticulture crops. “The company is trying to bring new solutions in the area of horticulture where currently there is not ...
Technology in Agriculture
XAG Launches V40 & P40 Agricultural Drones Globallyedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
XAG, the agricultural robotics and Artificial intelligence pioneers are preparing to launch their V40 and P40 Agricultural Drones internationally, bringing digital agriculture to more remote places with ageing populations and inadequate infrastructure. The XAG V40 and P40 are completely autonomous agricultural drones capable of mapping, spraying, and broadcasting. They are intended to assist farmers in transitioning to climate-smart techniques, resulting in increased growth with lower carbon footprints and reduced pesticide use. The upcoming new versions of drones are specifically designed for agricultural usage since the entire body of the XAG V40 and P40 has an IP67 (the unit can be thrown into a body of water up to a meter deep for half an hour) ...
‘Agriculture & AI can create wonders’edit
The New India Express – Online
On the inaugural ceremony of Agriculture B.Sc (Hons) course at Vignan’s Deemed To be University, director for agriculture and horticulture Dr T Ramesh Babu noted that it would be no exaggeration to say that wonders can be created when agriculture will come together with AI and machine learning. Varsity chairman Dr Lavu Rathaiah graced the event as a chief guest and appreciated each and every student who came forward to join the newly inaugurated course. “When conventional methods of agriculture are glued with technological advancements, the crop yield can get better,” Dr Rathiah noted. He said agriculture is the new path for each and every youngster who is looking for a bright ...
Govt. Policies
HP includes 8 new sectors under CM Self Employment schemeedit
The Statesman – Online
The Himachal Pradesh government on Wednesday made amendments in Mukhyamantri Swavalamban Yojana- 2019 (MMSY) and included 8 new activities/sectors in it, Industries Director Rakesh Kumar Prajapati said. Prajapati informed that Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur had announced plans to expand the scheme by adding more activities under MMSY in Budget speech 2021-22. Small Scale Service and Business Enterprises such as the establishment of Silage units, Unnat Dairy Vikas Project (A unit of minimum 10 cows or buffaloes), the establishment of cold storage facilities for milk and milk products, farm stay, agro-tourism, farm tourism, construction of retail outlets for agriculture, manufacturing of agricultural implements & equipment, raising of the vegetable nursery, Tissue Culture Laboratory, warehousing ...
Paddy in India
Srikakulam: Farmers put off harvestingedit
The Hans India – Online
The farmers are afraid that the incessant rain caused by the cyclone in Bay of Bengal may damage the paddy crop which is ready for harvest. In the district, the farmers were getting ready for the harvest but due to rains, they were asked to postpone the harvest for three more days. In the wake of continuous rainfall since Thursday morning with moderate velocity of winds, paddy crops were being destroyed. The paddy crops which are collapsed may get discolour and damaged and millers are not accepting to procure discoloured paddy. Incessant rain fall reported in Srikakulam rural, Amudalavalasa, Gara, Ponduru, Etcherla, Ranastalam, Laveru, Narasannapeta, Polaki, Jalumuru, Sarubujjili, L N Peta, Burja, Palakonda ...
Stubble Burning
Why Delhi continues to breathe smokeedit
The Times of India – Online
Gurpreet Singh, a paddy farmer from pind Jasso Majra 60km from Patiala city, still has a hard day’s work ahead and it’s already past noon — late by farming standards. The remnants of the paddy crop left after harvesting has dried after taking its own time in the lazy November sun. The 54-year-old, second-generation farmer looks up to see smoke rising from other farmsteads, almost like there was a hub of brick kilns in the area. There’s a mixed smell of earth, straw, pollen and ash in the air. Gurpreet calls out to his son Ashpreet, a lean 21-year-old with a stylish hairdo. The father-son duo picks up a blackened iron punjah or ...
Stubble Burning: In Haryana, 64% reduction in incidents of residue burning, 52% in Uttar Pradesh and 23 percent in Punjabedit
Haribhoomi – Online
Dr. Abhilaksh Likhi, Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare under the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has said that the Central Sector Scheme for the management of crop residues has been launched to control air pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region. There have been positive results. He said that due to successful implementation of the scheme, there was a reduction of 64 percent, 52 percent and 23 percent respectively in the number of incidents of burning of paddy residue in the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab in the year 2020 as compared to the year 2016. Additional Secretary Dr. Abhilaksh Likhi has called upon the farmers to make proper ...
Call meeting with states over stubble burning, Delhi asks Centreedit
The Statesman – Online
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday asked Union Environment and Forests Minister Bhupender Yadav to call a meeting of the national capital’s neighbouring states over the stubble-burning issue so that necessary steps to secure the life of citizens could be taken. “City of Delhi had entered the ‘severe category zone’ with AQI reaching 404 on November 9. As per meteorological prediction. AQI is likely to remain in the ‘very poor category’ due to shallow mixing layer height and low wind speed,” he said in a letter to Yadav. “This is an accumulation of pollutants in the air shed. The situation has got worse with stubble burning recorded in the neighbouring NCR states since ...
Punjab records 55,573 farm fires so far, Patiala has worst AQI among citiesedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Punjab recorded 55,573 cases of farm fires till Thursday with Patiala topping the chart of the state’s most polluted cities with an air quality index (AQI) of 296 which is bracketed as “poor”. Bathinda was second most polluted city with an AQI of 283, followed by Jalandhar at 271, Khanna and Ludhiana (259), Amritsar (251), and Mandi Gobindgarh at 239, according to data procured from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Ropar was the least polluted with 161 AQI. Sangrur district registered maximum 566 fresh cases of farm fires in the state and Mohali the lowest at six. A Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) official said the AQI will continue to deteriorate in the coming ...
Tractor industry
Farming Simulator 22: The Final Previewedit
IGN India – Online
There’s no denying it: there is something strangely satisfying about riding a massive tractor through a ripe field in the Farming Simulator series, but with Farming Simulator 22, the developers at GIANTS Software aren’t contenting themselves with a shiny new coat of paint. Instead, they’re adding features that up until now have only ever been supported by a passionate modding community; chiefly, seasonal cycles and production chains. Now, before I was able to hop on my rig and get that delightful crop-collecting payoff, I had to devise a plan for how to best utilize my time, space, and resources that extended far beyond the barley field. It’s hard to overstate just how big of ...