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Agriculture Industry
Bumper production, reduced import duty may hurt lentil farmersedit
DownToEarth – Online
India’s rabi harvest season is just a month away and a record production of pulses – 18.34 million tonnes (mt) against the target of 16.84 mt is expected, according to central second advanced estimates. In the season’s pulses basket, lentil (masur) production is estimated to be the second-highest (1.58 mt). The estimated lentil production volume is also the second-highest in the last 14 years. Bumper production combined with reduced import duty can hurt farmers, according to experts. Currently, lentil is selling above its minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 5,500 per quintal in the major producing states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar. Gram, which is the other important Rabi pulses crop, is ...
Farmers in Mysuru Raise Concerns About Agricultural Difficulties Ahead of Karnataka Budgetedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Farmers from the Mysuru region have highlighted difficulties that have plagued agriculture ahead of the Karnataka Budget, which is expected to be introduced in early March. They urge the government to provide enough allocations to the farm sector. Kurubur Shanthakumar, president of the Karnataka State Sugarcane Cultivators Association, said in Mysuru on Sunday that the farmers will hold a divisional level conference in Mysuru in the run-up to the Budget session, to bring attention of the government to their demands. Farmers were in severe problems, he claimed, and had suffered as a result of the region’s untimely and persistent rains, which lasted until early December. He said that this had a detrimental impact on agricultural ...
Centre looks to partner with agriculture startupsedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The central government is willing to be your business partner if you launch a startup focused on digital solutions for agriculture, climate change, rural development, education and even health care delivery, as India aims a big boost to its already bustling startup ecosystem. Ministries are gearing up to open themselves to business proposals from individuals, investors and firms where the state will hold limited equity partnerships, including the ministries of agriculture and electronics. A reason why the Union government has decided to be an investor is to provide “nascent-stage funding for newer entrants given India’s promising startup ecosystem and the potential they hold to transform the many sectors”, an official said, requesting anonymity. The government ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Claas and Carraro plan closer cooperationedit
Agriland – Online
While developments at the mid, to higher end of the power scale tend to grab the attention of industry watchers there is growing activity at the lower end, with Claas and Carraro signing an agreement to further intensify cooperation between the companies. Carraro think compact While best known for their production of axles and transmissions, the Carraro Group has also been building tractors since 1958. Rather than chase the ever-receding star of higher output tractors, the company has focused on producing smaller tractors suitable for orchard and vineyard work. Far from being scaled-down siblings of more mainstream machines these smaller tractors are becoming more tightly adapted for the type of work they are engaged in. A ...
Dairy Farming
Dairy Farming: Easy & Effective Home Remedies for Increased Milk Production in Cows & Buffaloesedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Animal husbandry along with agriculture has been done in India since ancient times and even today, the farmers are doing animal husbandry along with agriculture to increase their income. India’s dairy Industry is facing constant challenge to meet the increasing demand of Milk among the people despite being the largest milk producer in the world. It is mainly attributed to the exponentially growing population of India. In such a situation, the biggest problem with the livestock farmer face is that of increasing the milk production. Many times it is seen that in the interest of getting more milk from their animals, livestock farmers give hormone injections to their cows & buffaloes, that makes them start ...
Events
Dubai Expo: India invites global investors to tap opportunities in agri-supply chainedit
The Free Press Journal – Online
India on Monday called upon global investors at the ongoing Dubai Expo to invest in the country’s agriculture supply chain while highlighting the export potential of organic products. Addressing a seminar on the opportunities and export potential that Indian agriculture offers, P K Swain, additional secretary in the Union Agriculture Ministry, said the farm sector contributes significantly to the Indian economy. ”India is on its way to becoming the food basket of the world,” he said, adding that the country is offering both food and nutritional security with good agricultural practices. Applauding the expansion of the sector, Swain said India is scripting history with the enchanting growth trajectory of organic horticulture. He urged ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Skymet sees ‘normal’ monsoon, feeds hopes of robust summer cropedit
Financial Express – Online
The southwest monsoon (June-September), which accounts for 70% of the country’s rainfall, will be ‘normal’ this year, private weather forecaster Skymet stated on Monday in its preliminary guidance; if this comes true, the country will have normal precipitation from the annual phenomenon for the fourth year in a row. Though India’s agriculture activities depend significantly on monsoon rainfall, increased irrigation facilities (45% of cultivable land is irrigated), improved farming practices and rising crop productivity seem to have made the link between the two rather tenuous in the recent years (see chart). India’s food grains output has risen from 297.5 million tonne (MT) in the 2019-20 (July-June) crop year to 316 MT in 2021-22 as per ...
Paddy in India
Paddy procured worth Rs 1.36 lakh crore benefitting 94.15 lakh farmers in ongoing Kharif Seasonedit
ThePrint – Online
The Central government on Monday announced that paddy procurement at Minimum Support Price (MSP) worth Rs 1.36 lakh crore has been done so far from 94.15 lakh farmers in the ongoing Kharif Marketing Season (KMS). “The paddy procurement is progressing smoothly in Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2021-22 at MSP from farmers, as was done in previous years… Till now about 94.15 Lakh farmers have been benefitted with an MSP value of Rs 1,36,350.74 crore,” reads the official statement. According to the Ministry of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, the quantity of 695.67 LMT of Paddy has been procured in KMS 2021-22 up to February 20, 2022, in the procuring States/UTs of Chandigarh, Gujarat, ...
DPC staff not procuring 40K paddy sacks: Farmersedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Alleging that the Direct Purchase Centre (DPC) set in Puliyarai refused to purchase their paddy, about 100 farmers from Puliyarai, Pudur and Therkumedu staged a protest in front of the regional office of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation here on Monday. S Chelladurai, Regional secretary of All Farmers Organisation Coordination Committee told the media persons that about 40,000 sacks of paddy are awaiting to be procured. “The DPC in Puliyarai was set on February 4 with the promise that the staff of the centre would procure at least 1,000 sacks of paddy each day. However, in the past 16 days, only 4,000 sacks have been procured. The staff and the officials of ...
Stubble Burning
Biomass pellet push for poweredit
The Telegraph – Online
The Union power ministry has advised power plants to explore long term contracts with biomass pellet manufacturers. This comes at a time the government has announced in the Union budget its intent to use biomass in thermal power generation to lower carbon emission. Speaking at a CII organised event on Monday, Union power secretary Alok Kumar said that the long contracts would encourage creation of manufacturing capacity. “Earlier our power plants were procuring these pellets only for one season. So, there was no incentive to create new capacities for manufacturing the biomass pellets. We have advised the power plants to procure it for seven-year contracts so that people can set up new factories for producing ...