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Agriculture Industry
India Aims To Export $43 Billion Agricultural Productsedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
On Sunday, in an official statement Anupriya Patel, Union Minister of State of Commerce and Industry said – “The country has set a $400 billion target for merchandize exports for 2021-22, of which $262 billion has already been achieved in the April-November 2021-22 periods.” While addressing the Agri-Export Conference cum Buyer-Seller Meet, at Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) on Saturday Anupriya said – “a record export target of $43 billion has been set for agricultural products in 2021-22 and because of efforts by APEDA and farmers, this target would be achieved in the current fiscal.” At the event organized by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), the government release stated Patel saying – ...
70% of country’s agriculture land to be brought under cereals crop by 2050: Haryana horticulture varsity V-Cedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Around 70% agricultural land of the country needs to be brought under cereals crop cultivation by 2050 in order to feed the country’s population, said Maharana Pratap Horticulture University vice chancellor Prof Samar Singh. “By 2050, India will witness one-third increase in its population and there will be more pressure to grow foodgrains. There will be need to increase the cultivation of cereals crop to 70%,” the V-C said in his address in a webinar organised by the university on the occasion of International Soil Day. He expressed concerns over decreasing area under cultivation and depleting groundwater levels in country. “We need to increase production of foodgrains. Also, diversification from agriculture to horticulture is the ...
Competition
The Conversation—Anish Shahedit
Fortune India – Online
It’s been around a year since you’ve been running the group. What is the one big change that you have implemented Technically, I’ve been in this role since April (2021), but a lot of the work started in April last year when we started taking the tough decisions. The one big change is going back to the group’s earlier fiscal discipline. Ten years ago, we had leadership that included Bharat Doshi and Uday Phadke, who really drove fiscal discipline. We may have lost that for a variety of reasons, but it was important to get it back, and we are on track. What has been done to maintain a tighter ship? In the long term, ...
Technology in Agriculture
How the Growing Agritech Boom Bodes Well For India’s Agriculture Economyedit
Indian Retailing – Online
India’s agritech ecosystem is one of the fastest growing in the world. The country is home to the third-largest number of agritech start-ups, and we are also the third-largest recipient of agritech funding, right behind the United States and Germany. In fact, in 2020, India garnered investments worth US$ 329 million from private equity and venture capitalist firms. The sector also registered a whopping CAGR of ~53% from US$ 91 million in 2017 to US$ 329 million in 2020. And this is just the tip of the iceberg; even with these impressive numbers, India’s agritech sector is yet under 1% of its true market potential. This means that the scope for growth and innovation is ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Jawad skirts Odisha but leaves farmers in lurchedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The first post-monsoon tropical storm Jawad, which was reduced to a depression, brought heavy rains across coastal districts causing massive damage to standing crops in the harvest stage at many places. Jagatsinghpur and Ganjam were the worst affected as heavy rainfall lashed the two districts since Saturday night submerging hundreds of hectares of farmland. At many places, harvested paddy crops kept in the open are likely to be damaged because of the incessant rains. The plight of farmers is more or less the same in all the coastal and northern districts as December is the peak harvest period for the Kharif season. Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) PK Jena said owing to heavy rainfall ...
Paddy in India
Alternative Cropping Will Be Beneficial For Farmers During Rabi Season: RV Karnanedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
RV Karnan, Karimnagar, District Collector observed that alternative cropping would be beneficial for farmers instead of rice during Rabi season. On Sunday, at Ganneruvaram Mandal and Nustulpus villages in Thimmapur Mandal, he interacted with the farmers about the crops and also inspected groundnut and other six crops cultivated by farmers in Gundlapally. “The Central Government will not buy paddy through the FCI and the State government would not set up paddy procurement centers in the season” – said the District Collector. He further said that – “only those farmers, who have contracted with seed companies, should cultivate rice and non-contracted farmers would have to sell the grain on their own if they cultivate paddy.” Karnan ...
Salt- tolerant paddy production helps over 4 lakh farmers in Bengal to beat cyclone woesedit
Devdiscourse – Online
he West Bengal government has hand-held over four lakh farmers in Purba Medinipur, North and South 24 Parganas districts to produce a new variety of salt-tolerant paddy to curb the repeated damage of standing crops by saline floodwaters during natural calamities, an official said. This new variety of paddy, ‘Nona Swarna’, grown in over 50,000 hectares in the three districts, has temporarily helped the cultivators to minimise the damage from the devastation of cyclones Amphan and Yaas, the official said. The state has purchased the first mass-scale harvest of ‘Nona Swarna’ at a minimum support price of Rs 1,950 per quintal for free distribution under public distribution schemes, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s agriculture adviser Pradip Majumdar ...
State after state fail to procure kharif paddyedit
DownToEarth – Online
It has been two months since the 2021 kharif procurement season began in October but government procurement has not picked up pace in many states. There are at least nine states where procurement is zero or negligible even after two months, because of various problems. A total of 29 million tonnes of paddy has been procured up to November 30, 2021 from 16 states, according to data released by the government on December 2, 2021. However, over 83 per cent of this procured quantity was only from two states – Punjab and Haryana. More than 83 per cent of the paddy procured has been in Punjab (18.6 million tonnes) and Haryana (5.5 million tonnes). Uttar Pradesh ...
Stubble Burning
30% decline in farm fires in Haryana this year, zero stubble burning still a challengeedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Even as Haryana has reported nearly 30% decline in stubble burning cases this year, putting a complete check on the practice still remains a challenge for the authorities. As per the Haryana Space Application Centre’s data of rice residue burning events, the state had reported 6,987 incidents of farm fires during this harvesting season ending on November 30, against 9,898 reported last Kharif harvesting season from September 15 to November 30. The figures revealed that the farm fires were reported in 16 districts of Haryana. Over 67% cases were reported in five districts. Fatehabad is at the top with 1,479 incidents of farm fires, followed by 1,163 in Kaithal, 956 in Karnal, 551 in ...