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Agriculture Industry
Need to take agriculture out of lab and link it with nature: PM Modiedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked farmers to adopt natural farming techniques to ensure better produce and longevity of the soil while stressing on the need to take agriculture out of the chemistry lab and connect it with the nature’s lab. Addressing farmers and scientists virtually during the three-day national conclave on natural farming, held in Gujarat’s Anand, Modi said though the world has progressed technologically, it has also been connected to its roots and this should be adopted in farming too. “We have to take agriculture out of the chemistry lab and connect it to the lab of nature. When I talk about nature’s laboratory, it is completely science-based. Today, the more modern ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Farm machine maker Claas sees more chip snags in 2022edit
Reuters – Online
Agricultural machinery maker Claas said on Thursday it expects difficulties in securing semiconductor chips to persist for the first half of next year, which could curb a surge in profits linked to booming farm demand. An upturn in orders from farmers, who are benefiting from high crop prices after several lean years, has boosted earnings for equipment makers like U.S. giant Deere & Co. Brisk farm machine demand has coincided with soaring costs of raw materials and supply chain disruption during the coronavirus pandemic, with a scarcity of electronic chips causing production snags, like in the car industry. While steel prices appeared to have peaked, the supply squeeze in chips was not expected to ease until ...
Competition
Krish-e: A Platform to Address Agriculture Challenges & Deliver Real Impactedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Today, with the largest farmer community and the second-highest arable land in the world, making it one of the world’s largest food producers, Indian agriculture is on the cusp of a new era i.e., e-Agriculture. To transform Indian agriculture through its expert agriculture consultant services, Krish-e aims to advance millions of farmers to get the best from their farms. Launched in 2020, Krish-e is a new business vertical from Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. that provides technology-driven services, which are progressive, affordable & accessible to farmers. It enables farmers to maximize the potential of their farms through the implementation of modern farming methods and the provision of optimal digital agriculture services. The Krish-e ecosystem encompasses everything ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Unseasonal rains in Kerala: Farmers across state face a huge crisisedit
The News Minute – Online
The Mullu Kurumba tribal community consists of small-scale paddy farmers residing in Manmathamoola, Athikuni, Alathur, Kumizhi, Rmapallur, Kolur and a few other villages in the Noolpuzha panchayat of Wayanad district. Each family owns half to one acre of land, not more. They usually cultivate Wayanadan Thondi, Adukkan and Gandhakasala rice varieties. This year, 115 Mullu Kurumba farmers cultivated paddy in 150 acres under the Muthanga Padasekhara Samiti. In the beginning of November, all of them were happy that within days the paddy would be harvested, knowing that the yield was very high this time. “They had started harvesting, but the unseasonal rain destroyed their hard work. The heavy rains broke the bunds around the ...
Paddy in India
Telangana hits 50 lakh tonnes mark in paddy procurementedit
Telangana Today – Online
The Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation procured 50 lakh tonnes paddy from about nine lakh farmers in the ongoing Vaanakalam (Kharif) paddy procurement season, breaking the previous year’s record of 48.75 lakh tonnes. The government is likely to procure another 20 lakh tonnes before end of the season. Till date, the Corporation has procured more than 50 lakh tonnes paddy worth around Rs 10,000 crore from nine lakh farmers through 6,849 procurement centres. This is 13 lakh tonnes more than 37 lakh tonnes paddy procured for the corresponding period during the last Vaanakalam season. Despite the unseasonal rains and Covid-19 restrictions, the paddy procurement has been completed in 1,810 centres across 14 districts. Farmers were ...
Stubble Burning
‘Stubble burning is old farming mistake’edit
The Times of India – Online
“One of the mistakes that had crept into the traditional methods of farming is the issue of stubble burning,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned in his virtual address at the National Conclave for Natural Farming held at Anand on Thursday. Elaborating on the ill-effects of burning up the farmland refuse, Modi said, “We see that when heated, mud becomes a brick. It is so strong that a building can be made with it. But burning the remains of crops has become a sort of tradition,” he said, adding that experts too are of the opinion that fire reduces the fertility of farmlands. In his online address, the PM said that the world was ...