Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Agriculture Sectoredit
Rising Kashmir – Online
The importance of self reliance in agriculture production and development of agriculture and allied sectors is underrated, probably due to the excess of attention drawn by other sectors. Many experts are of the opinion that agriculture & horticulture sectors can become key drivers of UT’s economic growth in future. Unfortunately in J&K, especially in the valley agriculture lands are diminishing as designated lands are used for residential and commercial purposes. Furthermore, industrial growth and development itself had been very poorly managed in last 50 years. J&K still has agriculture and allied sectors as the spine of its economy. It is a fact that modern agriculture is driven by continuous improvements in digital tools and data ...
Budget
Budget may raise agri credit to nearly ₹18 lakh croreedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The budget may see announcement of steps to strengthen agricultural lending by scheduled banks and primary agricultural credit societies, which are last-mile village institutions that play a key role in disbursal of farm credit to millions of farmers, the official said. Successive budgets have enhanced the farm-credit target over the years, from about ₹10 lakh crore in 2017-18 to about ₹16.5 lakh crore in the current financial year. “In the current financial year, banks are expected to exceed the target set for loan disbursal for farm activities,” an official said, requesting anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media. Since banks and credit societies have exceeded the target consistently, the target is ...
Competition
Deere rolls out fully autonomous tractor at CESedit
Mint – Online
Deere & Co. said Tuesday that it has developed a fully autonomous tractor designed for large-scale farming and that it plans to sell the machine later this year. The vehicle has the familiar green hue of a John Deere tractor. It sports a steering wheel in the cab, massive tires around classic yellow wheels, and a convolutional neural network, which comes standard in the autonomous tractor. It also features redundant braking and steering systems for an added layer of safety. The autonomous tractor is a version of Deere’s existing 8R series machine, the largest of which has 410 horsepower. Current 8R users can upgrade their tractors with the autonomous driving system. The Deere tractor, unveiled at ...
Govt. Policies
Central, State Government Working Together to Double Farmers’ Income by 2022: Tomaredit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Tuesday that the Centre and state governments are working together to achieve the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. In 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government set a highly ambitious goal of doubling farmers’ incomes by 2022. In September 2018, an inter-ministerial committee on ‘Doubling Farmers’ Income’ submitted a report outlining strategies to attain this target. Following the approval of the panel’s recommendations, the government established “empowered body” to review and monitor progress. Tomar stated at an event in Goa that the central government has given agriculture and related activities high priority. Agriculture makes a considerable contribution to the nation’s GDP, making it all the more important to ...
PM Kisan FPO Yojana: Farmers Will Get Rs 15 Lakhs Through This Schemeedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The Government of India introduces a variety of schemes from time to time, with the goal of assisting the people – whether they are ordinary individuals or farmers. Farmers in the country might get up to Rs 15 lakh from the government to start an agricultural enterprise in this episode. In fact, the government has launched the PM Kisan FPO scheme, which will provide up to Rs 15 lakh to Farmers Producer Organizations. This will be a financial aid program for which 11 farmers will need to start an organization or company. After this, they will get up to Rs 15 lakh, from which you can buy things related to agriculture. Below we have mentioned ...
Paddy in India
Bihar: Poor Paddy Procurement From Rice Belt Upsets Farmersedit
News Click – Online
Bhola Singh and Suresh Tiwari, both paddy growing farmers of Rohtas district of Bihar, have been worried over slow paddy procurement by government agencies in the last 50 days. They were forced to sell half of the paddy to traders in the open market for between Rs 1,400-1,450/quintal recently, much below the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy. Singh and Tiwari, two among thousands of farmers in Rohtas, known as the rice bowl of Bihar, are not getting MSP for paddy due to the apathy of the government to procure from them. This reality was reflected in the latest official data from the Cooperative Department about daily paddy procurement in Rohtas and other adjacent districts ...
Telangana govt procured 65.20 lakh metric tones of Kharif paddyedit
The Siasat Daily – Online
The Telangana government has finally procured 65.20 lakh metric tonnes of Kharif paddy from the paddy farmers in the state. The central government has agreed to purchase 46 lakh metric tonnes of rice from Telangana, which equates to 68.65 lakh metric tonnes of paddy. In addition to the three lakh-odd metric tonnes of paddy procurement that would match the national government’s aim of 46 lakh metric tonnes of rice, the state government has decided to procure paddy till the last grain is brought in by farmers. The civil supply minister of Telangana Gangula Kamalakar on January 4 said that the state government has purchased 65.20 lakh metric tonnes of Vanakalam paddy from 11.90 lakh ...
Stubble Burning
India’s COP26 commitments to help with new green technologies: ICRAedit
Mint – Online
The emission control commitments made by India at the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November are expected to benefit the country in the long term with new technologies in energy efficiency, carbon reduction and green fuels according to rating agency ICRA. “Assurances given at COP26 stands to benefit the country; the tasks need a focused roadmap and calls for timely Govt. interventions,” ICRA said in a statement and added, “Ambitious targets for COP26 opens massive investment opportunities across segments like renewables, the EV ecosystem, ethanol blending, improvement in energy efficiencies and carbon capture technologies.” India is working on a set of climate policies and has made it mandatory for coal-fuelled power projects to use biomass pellets ...