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Agriculture Industry
Climate Smart Agriculture Launched In South Asiaedit
Ahmedabad Mirror – Online
The central objective of the partnership is to develop evidence-based strategies to collectively tackle the impact of climate change in South Asia. Agriculture has historically been a risky business, and it is becoming riskier due to climate change and its associated impacts on agri-food systems. According to one estimate, the region could lose 10-50 per cent of crop production by the end of the century due to global warming. Yet, the sector is still the main source of livelihood for over 50 per cent of the population in South Asia. This reality calls for integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies with overarching goal of ensuring food, nutrition and livelihood security for millions of ...
In fields across Punjab, farmers crave a helping hand to cultivate a better futureedit
The Indian Express – Online
Parampal Singh (33), a farmer for 15 years from Bathinda’s Teona village, has never heard of a programme that is a key deliverable for all agriculture departments across the country in order to enhance farmers’ income and improve crop yields. “Can you explain what that is,” he asks, giving away the huge knowledge gap that exists between the policy makers’ desks and the farmland. Under the Extension programme – which experts call backbone of modern farming, farmers must be trained about improved agronomic practices for every cropping season and they must be provided with latest information related to agri-related government schemes. “I have never seen any officer visiting us and educating about the new ...
What are flash droughts, will it affect India?edit
The Indian Express – Online
By studying flash droughts between 1980 and 2015, an international team has now mapped the global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence. According to the paper published recently in Nature Communications, India is a hotspot for flash droughts and this could have major implications on the country’s crop production. Flash droughts have been defined in two ways, either as a short-lived yet severe event where soil moisture completely depletes or a multi-week period of rapid intensification toward drought. It is sometimes also defined as a rapidly developing drought event. The team noted that flash drought hotspots exist over Brazil, the Sahel, the Great Rift Valley with local hotspots over the central United ...
Dairy Farming
Britannia enhances farmers’ livelihood with tech-enabled Dairy Farmer Welfare Programmeedit
The CSR Journal – Online
Britannia Industries’ Dairy Farmer Welfare programme is enabling farmers in Maharashtra improve their economic status through increased cattle productivity and incomes. The Dairy Farmer Welfare programme was conceived with the objective of inculcating sustainable agricultural practices in line with the Government’s National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture to make agriculture more productive, remunerative and climate-resilient. The programme builds capacity of dairy farmers by helping them generate higher productivity of their cattle, leading to enhanced incomes, while improving nutritional security for milk consumers. The holistic programme provides advisory to farmers by helping them produce high quality milk in a clean and hygienic environment at significantly reduced costs. The programme leverages technology through an app to enable ...
Govt. Policies
Principal Secretary Agriculture Launches Farm Machinery Distribution Campedit
India Education Diary – Online
As a sequel to government’s endeavor towards realizing Prime Minister’s goal of doubling income of farmers by 2022, Principal Secretary Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary, today launched farm machinery distribution camp at Agriculture Complex Lalmandi, Srinagar. Principal Secretary handed over the keys of tractors and mobile vending carts to the beneficiary farmers under CAPEX. He also inspected the stalls established by some of the progressive farmers and agri-entrepreneurs of the valley during the camp. Speaking on the occasion, Principal Secretary exhorted upon the officers to guide the farmers towards increasing production of different agriculture crops amid the changing climatic and environmental conditions. He said that promoting mechanization among the farming ...
Chhattisgarh govt launches scheme to boost farmers’ income; CM says Centre hindering paddy procurementedit
Devdiscourse – Online
The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday launched a project aimed at enhancing the income of farmers, improving the nutritional intake of villagers and better management of natural resources in tribal areas of the state. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel accused the Centre of doing injustice to farmers and not extending support to Chhattisgarh in the procurement of paddy and supplying di-ammonium phosphate DAP fertilisers.The newly-launched Chhattisgarh Inclusive Rural and Accelerated Agriculture Growth CHIRAAG project, worth Rs 1,735 crore, will be implemented in tribal-dominated development blocks in 14 districts, Baghel said at a function held in Jagdalpur, the headquarter of the Bastar district. The newly-launched Chhattisgarh Inclusive Rural and Accelerated Agriculture Growth (CHIRAAG) project, worth ...
Paddy in India
With failed Mission Paddy: Farmers left in quandaryedit
The Hans India – Online
The TRS delegation has returned from Delhi but the problems pertaining to the paddy procurement did not make any progress. They are now facing two-fold problems; one regarding non-procurement of paddy during present kharif despite long wait at market yards and another is that they are not sure of rabi situation. The Centre has made it clear that they will not buy parboiled rice anymore and Union Minister for Food Supplies Piyush Goyal had made it clear even on Tuesday when a delegation of ministers, MPs and officials led by K T Rama Rao met him. Though Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao himself camped at Delhi for three days, he could not get the ...
Tractor industry
Sales of Tractors in October 2021: Eicher, Mahindra, Sonalika & Othersedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Tractor sales fell by 20.78 percent to 44,262 units in October 2021, compared to 55,874 in October 2020. However, this was a 24.79 percent increase over the 35,469 units sold in October 2019. In October 2021, almost every tractor manufacturer in India reported a decrease in sales. Mahindra was the leading tractor manufacturer and the only one in its sector to sell over 10,000 units. Mahindra tractor sales was 10,379 units in October 2021, down from 12,654 units. In the previous month, market share fell from 22.65 percent in October 2021 to 23.45 percent. Mahindra’s Swaraj Division also reported a drop in retails, from 9,565 units in October 2020 to 6,981 units in October 2021. ...