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Agriculture Industry
‘Crop diversification can boost prosperity of farmers’edit
The Times of India – Online
Crop diversification can ensure rural prosperity and will prove to be a game changer for the agrarian states like Punjab, said Punjab chief secretary Anirudh Tewari while chairing a workshop on “diversification of crops”, held at at Indian School of Business, Mohali on Thursday. The event was organised by the department of agriculture and farmers’ welfare Punjab under the aegis of Union ministry of agriculture. Addressing the inaugural session, the chief secretary stressed upon the need for crop diversification for the whole of the nation and not only for Punjab and the role of stakeholder consideration in policy formulation for crop diversification plan on top agenda. “Main objective of crop diversification is ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Biggest farm machinery launches of 2021edit
Farmers Weekly – Online
An “S” derivative of JCB’s TM420 pivot-steer telehandler broke cover in February, bringing with it more power and a new eight-speed gearbox. The range-topper is an evolution of the standard TM420, launched in 2018, and uses the same 4.8-litre Dieselmax engine as much of the firm’s telehandler range. However, it pumps out a whopping 173hp and 690Nm of torque, putting it at the apex of the TM line-up. Other improvements include the new eight-speed powershift transmission that is tuned to deliver a 50kph top speed, and the use of two hydraulic pumps that are able to provide peak flow at lower revs. Regenerative hydraulics are standard, which help to increase cycle times and allow multiple ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
In Odisha, fresh rains add to farmers’ woesedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Fresh rains on Thursday, December 9, 2021, added to the woes of farmers whose paddy crops were submerged due to the cyclone Jawad-induced downpour. Of the total 1,33,645 hectare (ha) of land brought under paddy cultivation during the current kharif season, crops in only 27,000 ha have been harvested. Standing crops on 1,06,645 ha were inundated due to heavy rains that lashed the district under the influence of the cyclone from December 3 to December 5. Farmers in several areas who were seen struggling to drain out rainwater from the cultivated areas since December 6, are now worried owing to the fresh rain. “I had tried to release the stagnant storm water ...
Untimely rain affects crops on 4.5L hectaresedit
Millennium Post – Online
Crops on around 4.5 lakh hectares of land were badly affected due to the untimely rainfall during cyclone Jawad in south Bengal districts. As per the preliminary reports received by the state Agriculture department, potato cultivation on around 1.36 lakh hectare was affected. Similarly, the Kharif paddy was badly affected on 2.36 lakh hectare while mustard cultivation was affected on 79,718 hectare land. It needs a mention that south Bengal districts received untimely rainfall due to cyclone Jawad. Though harvest of paddy had been completed on 70 per cent of the cultivable areas using combined harvester, paddy cultivation on 2.36 lakh hectares were badly affected. The state Agriculture minister also contemplates heavy damage of potato ...
Paddy in India
Government procures paddy worth nearly Rs 64,000 crore at MSP in 2021-22 mkt year so faredit
The Economic Times – Online
The government has procured 326 lakh tonnes of paddy so far in the 2021-22 kharif marketing year at the minimum support price (MSP) for nearly Rs 64,000 crore. “Paddy procurement is progressing smoothly in the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2021-22 from farmers, at MSP like it was done in the previous years,” an official statement said. The KMS runs from October to September. As on December 8, total 326 lakh tonnes of paddy have been procured in the states/UTs of Chandigarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Telangana, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. “Till now about 25.94 lakh farmers have ...
Telangana paddy farmers urged to grow alternate cropsedit
Siasat Daily – Online
With the Centre deciding not to procure parboiled rice from Telangana, state Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy on Thursday appealed to farmers not to cultivate paddy this Rabi season and go for alternate crops. In an open letter to farmers, he urged them to understand the “anti-farmer” and “anti-agriculture” policies of the Centre and cultivate alternative crops having demand in the market like pulses and oil seeds. Reddy alleged that Central ministers Piyush Goyal and Narendra Singh Tomar were creating confusion among Telangana farmers with their contradictory statements. He also alleged that the Centre has not lifted the rice procured last year from warehouses in the state. Slamming the Centre for playing double game on ...
Stubble Burning
Dutch firms offer solutions to stubble burning, saline farmingedit
Devdiscourse – Online
The Dutch government is in talks with the Gujarat administration to open a Centre of Excellence on ”saline farming” in the coastal state to help farmers undertake agricultural activities on salt-affected soils, the European country’s trade office here said on Thursday. Amlan Bora, Trade and Investment Commissioner at the Netherlands Business Support Office (NBSO) in Ahmedabad, said it has started discussions with the Gujarat government to open a Centre of Excellence on saline farming. ”Discussions are already happening in Gujarat to create a Centre of Excellence in saline farming. A huge percentage of land in Gujarat has a lot of salinity, not just near the sea coast but also well inside the land. The Netherlands ...