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Agriculture Industry
Less department staff, lesser motivation: How agriculture extension collapsed in Punjab?edit
The Indian Express – Online
Nirmal Singh (name changed) regularly visits and stays in touch 2,000 farming families in villages assigned to him as part of his job as an Agriculture Development Officer (ADO). Every ADO in state, as per government specification, needs to cater to 1,000 farm families. Nirmal, whose job is entirely field work, says it is his passion to help farmers that drives him. “I do not offer money at religious places, but spend that money on my field visits,” he says. But in the same vein, he rues, “I have no government vehicle at my disposal to visit the fields of these farmers one after another. But I have a passion for my job and ...
Wheat sowing up 3.36% so far: Agriculture Ministryedit
The Economic Times – Online
Area sown to wheat, the main rabi crop, rose 3.36 per cent to 138.35 lakh hectare so far in the current rabi season from 133.84 lakh hectare in the year-ago period, according to the agriculture ministry. Rabi sowing begins from October while harvesting starts from March onwards. Besides wheat, gram and mustard are the other main rabi crops. As per the ministry data, wheat has been sown in 35.8 lakh hectare in Madhya Pradesh, 34.98 lakh hectare in Uttar Pradesh, 29.45 lakh hectare in Punjab, 13.78 lakh hectare in Haryana and 13.37 lakh hectare in Rajasthan so far in the ongoing season. These are major wheat growing states in the country. Besides wheat, area ...
Technology in Agriculture
Scientists Advocate for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture in Hyderabadedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Prof Raj Khosla of Kansas State University in the United States, who stressed that digital intelligence in farming was the need of the hour, said that a public-private partnership was essential for digital agriculture and that all farm operations could be digitised using GPS technology because precision input usage would increase farm productivity. Prof Khosla stressed the importance of artificial intelligence-enabled digital tools for increasing farm income and productivity during a lecture on ‘Future of Farming: Big Data, Analytics, and Precision Agriculture’ during the plenary session at Prof Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University (PJTSAU) on Thursday. Prof Khosla also stressed the importance of artificial intelligence-enabled digital tools for increasing farm income and productivity during ...
Stubble Burning
Biochar: Farmers will get freedom from stubble burningedit
Hindustan – Online
At present, removing the stubble i.e. crop waste from the fields or keeping it somewhere else remains the biggest problem. Due to the harvesting of crops by machines, this is a challenge for the stubble farmers. But, now farmers will get freedom from this. Not only this, by making biochar of stubble, making it bio-compost in the fields, it can be used in the fields. Farmers will get complete freedom from stubble burning. By burning this straw or other stubble in the biochar furnace, it will be made bio-compost. By using it in the fields, the fertilizer will also increase. To prepare 12 quintals of biochar for one acre of land, 16 quintals of straw is ...
Stubble Burning: Stubble burning in less area in Punjab this year, Pathanket reported the least casesedit
Jagran – Online
Stubble has been burnt in less area in the state this year as compared to last year. According to the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB), stubble burning was done in 46.09 percent of the total area in 2020, while this year only 26.28 percent of the area has been stubble burning. According to the data received from PPCB, stubble burning was done in a total area of 6.86 lakh hectare this year, while in the year 2020 it was 10.20 lakh hectare. PPCB officials are considering it as a big victory. Officials say that even though there is not much difference in the cases of stubble burning compared to last year, but if we talk ...
Centre accepts demand of farmers, decriminalizes stubble burning: Agriculture minister Tomaredit
The Times of India– Online
Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday informed that the Centre has decriminalized stubble burning as per the demand of the farmers’ organizations. This comes ahead of the scheduled tractor march on November 29 towards the Parliament announced by Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait. The first day of the winter session of the Parliament will commence on November 29. The government had earlier announced that the bill to repeal the three farm laws will be tabled in the Parliament on the first day of the winter session. “After the announcement of the repeal of the three farm laws, there is no point in continuing farmers’ agitation. I urge farmers to end ...