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Agriculture Industry
Push for diversifying crops as threat of climate change loomsedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The State government will encourage crop diversification through cultivation of millets and pulses as 29 districts in the State have been identified as vulnerable to the impact of global climate change.“Special schemes will be implemented to popularise the cultivation of millets and pulses as an alternative to water-intensive crops. Under the Crop Diversification Programme, farmers will be encouraged to cultivate high value, short-duration crops as an alternative to low-value crops, after harvesting field crops. The scheme will be implemented in an area of 20,000 acres at an outlay of Rs 16 crore,” the minister said. High-value seedlings like red sander, sandal, mahogany, teak etc would be distributed to farmers to encourage agroforestry at ...
Budget
Agriculture budget: DMK govt focuses on promoting organic farming, digitisationedit
The Indian Express – Online
In its second agriculture budget, the DMK government has proposed a dozen varied steps to dissuade farmers from converting farmland into housing sites. Also, reviving native seeds and organic farming, setting up a gene pool for the digitisation of the farming process, modernising and decentralising the supply chain figure in the budget document. The budget was presented by Agriculture and Farmers Welfare minister MRK Panneerselvam on Saturday with an allocation of Rs 33,007.68 crore. The allocation in the last fiscal was Rs 32,775,78 crore. A sum of Rs 132 crore has been allocated for Chief Minister’s Dry Land Development Mission that will cover 7.5-lakh acres of dry land clusters for farming. There is a ...
Technology in Agriculture
Researchers Warn on Risk of Using AI in Agriculture, Says Risk To Farmers, Farms and Food Securityedit
IndianWeb2 – Online
Researchers have published a study in the science journal Nature, warning that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture can pose serious risks for farmers, farms, and food security, and moreover these risks are not fully understood. According to the study, deploying AI and Machine Learning (ML) at scale for agricultural use can affect small farmers as use of AI tended to be led by larger commercial farmers who have more capital to invest and ability to harvest marginal gains in productivity over larger area. However small farmers who do not have money and resources to deploy AI can be affected and there is a potential of widening the divide between large farmers and smallholders. ...
Paddy in India
KCR to keep up pressure on Centre over Rabi paddyedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Proving his critics wrong, Chief Minister K Chandrasek-har Rao on Saturday indicated that he was in no mood to soften his attack on the BJP after the saffr-on party won elections to the Assemblies in four of the five states that went to polls recently. The TRS chief deci-ded to lead a delegation to Delhi after Monday to exert pressure on the Centre to procure the entire paddy produced in Telangana in Rabi season. Launching a fresh attack on the Narendra Modi government, Rao said: “The Centre is procuring the entire stock of paddy from Punjab. It should also purchase paddy from TS.” It may be mentioned here that the Centre has already ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble Burning: ये है पराली जलाने से रोकने का फॉर्मूला, दिल्ली की हवा होगी साफ, किसानों को भी फायदाedit
Navbharat Times – Online
भारत में दिल्ली जैसे शहरों के लिए सबसे बड़ी समस्या है प्रदूषण, जो अक्टूबर-नवंबर में और अधिक बढ़ जाता है। इसकी सबसे बड़ी वजह होती है पंजाब और हरियाणा में किसानों की तरफ से पराली का जलाया (Stubble Burning) जाना। हरियाणा-पंजाब में करीब 1.2 करोड़ टन पराली जलने से उठने वाला धुआं हर बार ठंड की शुरुआत के साथ ही दिल्ली की हवा को दूषित (Pollution in Delhi) करता है। मामला कोर्ट-कचहरी तक पहुंच चुका है, लेकिन अभी भी पराली का जलना नहीं रुक रहा है। पराली जलाने को गैर-कानूनी तक करार दिया गया है, लेकिन किसान पराली जलाते हैं और पॉलीटीशियन उनके खिलाफ कोई भी कदम उठाने की हिम्मत नहीं कर पा रहे हैं। ...