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Agriculture Industry
The MSP that rural India needs: Maximum support policyedit
The Indian Express – Online
In the historic withdrawal of the three farm Acts, in the success of the resilience, commitment and sincerity of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, is our own “David and Goliath” moment. How this initial and significant victory will pan out and what impact it will have, not only on agricultural policies but on how democracy and capital are entangled, will depend on the direction the farmers’ movement takes. The issue of “minimum support price” (MSP) for key agricultural commodities has been a persistent sticking point in the negotiations between the government and the farmers. The movement’s leaders have demanded the legalisation of MSP, increasing this support price and extending it to all crops while ...
Financing sustainable agriculture key to address climate change vulnerability: Reportedit
The Economic Times – Online
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has urged policymakers and stakeholders to scale up financing in sustainable agriculture projects, in order to address climate change vulnerability. According to a report by CFA Institute in partnership with Climate Bonds Initiative, agriculture, which is the primary source of livelihood for about 58 per cent of India’s population and contributes to global food security as one of the major producers of agro-commodities, is particularly vulnerable to climate change. CFA Institute has called for a concerted effort from Indian banks, venture capital (VC) investors, multilateral development institutions, and Indian policymakers, towards catalysing private capital for sustainable agriculture. “In India, we have a National Mission for ...
Competition
India to be the biggest market for Kubota in future: Yuichi Kitao, global presidentedit
The Economic Times – Online
Japan’s largest tractor maker Kubota Corporation, which plans to invest Rs 9,400 crore in Escorts NSE 0.52 %, expects India to contribute $3 billion to its top line in the coming decade as it intends to use the base to expand in India as well as other emerging markets. Yuichi Kitao, president and representative director of Kubota Corporation told Ketan Thakkar & Satish John that along with Escorts, Kubota intends to more than double market share to 25% by 2025. Escorts — its biggest investment yet — will help Kubota expand its product line-up in both tractors and agri-machinery and help cater to India, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, he said. The present ...
Technology in Agriculture
Bayer conducts first drone trial in agriculture in Hyderabadedit
Business Standard – Online
Bayer CropScience Ltd on Tuesday said it has conducted its first drone trial at its multi-crop breeding centre in Chandipa, near Hyderabad. Sharing a message on this occasion, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said: I’m really happy to learn that Bayer is organising a pilot project on the use of drones in agriculture”. India is making giant strides in technology and digitalisation, and adopting these for enhancing agricultural purposes is a step forward in the government’s efforts to provide a strong impetus to farmers’ prosperity, the company quoted the minister as saying in a statement. The minister said that usage of drones in agriculture will revolutionise farm operations and empower our farmers, especially ...
Govt. Policies
State govt will provide water, electricity to every farm: Dy CMedit
The Times of India – Online
Deputy chief minister Tarkishor Prasad on Tuesday called upon the agricultural engineers to develop farming equipment for the benefit of small and marginal farmers and help increase agricultural produce in the country. Inaugurating the 55th annual convention of the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) and a three-day international symposium on “Emerging Trends In Agricultural Engineering Education, Research and Extension”, at Gyan Bhawan here Prasad said, “With the rising population, farms are decreasing and the number of small and marginal farmers is also increasing considerably. Hence, agricultural technology must accord priority to the interest of marginal farmers.” The deputy CM said the state had achieved a lot in the field of agriculture ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Crops spread over 800,000 hectares damaged in flood-hit Andhraedit
Business Standard – Online
Heavy rain and floods in four districts of Andhra Pradesh have damaged agriculture and horticulture crops spread over eight lakh hectares, officials said. According to the preliminary reports from the affected districts, the crop loss is estimated to be around Rs 3,000 crore. Agriculture Minister K. Kannababu said a detailed crop enumeration will be done once the floods recede. The district-wise breakup of crop loss was yet to be updated but as per the district-wise information available as on November 21, Kadapa district suffered the maximum. Crops over 1,26,167 hectares were damaged in Kadapa, followed by 90,498 hectares in Anantapur. Nellore and Chittoor districts had suffered crops damage over 12,118 hectares and 9,616 hectares ...
Paddy in India
No clarity on paddy procurement by Centre: Telangana govtedit
Moneycontrol – Online
There was no categorical assurance from the Centre on the quantity of paddy that it would procure from Telangana this season, even as the NDA government made it clear that it would not purchase parboiled rice, the state government has said. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao along with some of his cabinet colleagues and senior officials has been camping in the national capital on the issues on paddy purchase and others. A high-level delegation of state ministers and MPs held lengthy discussions with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Union Civil Supplies Minister Piyush Goel separately in New Delhi on Tuesday for nearly three and a half hours, a release from the Chief Minister’s ...
Farmers of Telangana’s Medak district stranded with paddy for weeks as millers play hardballedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Paddy has been languishing at purchasing centres in most parts of the erstwhile Medak district, as it is not being purchased as soon as farmers bring it to the centres, owing to lack of godowns and lorries.This has forced farmers to stay for 15-20 days at purchasing centres, away from their families. Farmers say that it is taking 15-20 days for the grain to be transported to rice mills, and that they have to request truck drivers and purchasing centre managers to move the grains. Another grievance of the ryots is that there are no facilities available at the purchasing centres to save their stock from rains. As a result, they themselves have ...
Uttar Pradesh: Ensure transparent procurement of paddy, directs CM Yogi Adityanathedit
The Times of India – Online
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that the state government will not tolerate negligence in procurement of paddy in the ongoing season. Presiding over a review meeting, Yogi said that instructions for paddy procurement with complete transparency need to be ensured at all purchase centres. Yogi’s hardened stance vis-a-vis efficient procurement of paddy comes a day after Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) upped the ante to demand legal guarantee on procurement of crop at the MSP. The CM directed the officials to ensure Paddy Purchase Centres operate on time. “Farmers should be paid for their produce within 72 hours,” he said, reiterating that in the paddy procurement year 2021-22, many innovative initiatives have ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble Burning: Some stubborn farmers are troubling themselves as well as othersedit
Jagran – Online
Your own loss and everyone is upset but still stubborn farmers are not ready to give up. Yes, you understand right, we are talking about those stories who are not allowing the practice of burning crop residues to end. In sugarcane, wheat and paddy growing areas, the practice of burning the remaining straw, leaves and sugarcane roots in the fields after harvesting has been going on for centuries. The number of farmers cultivating scientifically is very limited, who are avoiding this practice, but the farmers who are cultivating in a conservative way are considering this malpractice as convenient for themselves. But they do not know that due to this the organic carbon of the soil ...
Regulatory Framework, Effective Decision-Making Can Tackle Delhi Air Pollution, Stubble Burningedit
News18 – Online
People in Delhi and nearby regions are having their annual tryst with the deadly winter air pollution, a phenomenon where toxic clouds of smog engulf this region every year around the winter months. Contributing to nearly 30% of winter air pollution in Delhi, stubble burning across the nearby states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh is attributed as one of the major factors for the existence and amplification of air pollution in the region during the winter period. Following a similar pattern as the last five-odd years, NASA recently spotted agricultural fires over the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana through its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite imagery. Other than the continuous occurrence ...
Stubble burning set to end for season in Punjab, only 66 new casesedit
The Times of India – Online
With sowing of the next wheat crop crop beggining in most areas of Punjab, stubble burning too is set to end for the season. Only 66 stubble burning cases were reported in Punjab on Tuesday. With this, the season’s count reached 71,090 stubble burning cases, over 5,000 cases less than the 76,590 incidents reported in 2020. Muktsar district recorded the maximum number of crop residue burning events on Tuesday, at 14. It was followed by 11 cases in Fazilka. These two were the only districts to have reported new cases in double digits. Overall, Sangrur has recorded 7,998 cases so far this season. It is followed by 6,504 in Moga, 6,276 in Ferozepur, ...
Tractor industry
Tractor Manufacturers Grab a Ride on Farm Machineryedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Escorts Ltd, controlled by the Nanda family, concluded a multi-layered arrangement with Kubota Corp, a worldwide farm equipment company, last week, bringing the Osaka, Japan-based Company’s stake to 53.50 percent. It was a harbinger of a fundamental shift in the agri-machinery industry’s character. Escorts and Kubota, Japan’s oldest tractor manufacturer, will finalise a plan for the following six to seven years once the deal is completed. Part of the objective is to significantly diversify the product line, including boosting the agricultural machinery area, which presently accounts for a minor portion of the business. Kubota would also utilise the cash reserve to establish a cutting-edge worldwide R&D centre, according to Bharat Madan, Escorts’ chief financial officer, ...