Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Booming wheat exports from India to help ease global shortageedit
Mint – Online
In a world where people are concerned more than ever about food shortages and rising inflation, India’s warehouses are brimming over with grain and the country’s farmers are gearing up for yet another record harvest. The country is the top global producer of wheat after China and has the potential to ship 12 million tons to the world market in the 2022-23 year, the most on record, according to the median of five estimates in a Bloomberg survey of traders, millers and analysts. That compares with shipments of 8.5 million tons in 2021-22, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Prices of farm commodities were already on a ...
Women are key to agriculture entrepreneurship: Metriedit
The Times of India – Online
Contributions by women in farming sector have been long ignored. It’s time, we as a society give due credit to their contributions, not only to the family but as a society on the whole, urged Dr Bhimaraya Metri, director of Indian Institute of Management Nagpur (IIMN) while addressing a special online capacity building programme jointly organized by IIMN and ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar recently. “Agriculture is the future of the planet and we as experts in the field of management, research need to take initiative to equip and train women with the advancements in farming and help them come out as role models,” said Dr Metri. He was addressing experts ...
Competition
Escorts slips 8% in two days ahead of closure of open offer by Kubotaedit
Business Standard – Online
Shares of Escorts dipped 5.5 per cent to Rs 1,704 on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade. The stock has fallen 8 per cent in the past two trading days as the open offer made by Japan’s Kubota Corporation to acquire additional 28.42 per cent stake in the company ends today. The stock had hit a record high of Rs 1,927 on December 31, 2021. On November 18, 2021, Escorts’ board had announced that Kubota will acquire 37.49 million equity shares or 28.42 per cent of the expanded voting share capital. The open offer price was fixed at Rs 2,000 per share.The open offer for the tendering shares was opened on March 14, 2022 and ...
महिंद्रा और सोनालिका समेत इन 10 कंपनियों के ट्रैक्टर की अच्छी बिक्री, नया ट्रैक्टर खरीदने से पहले जानेंedit
Navbharat Times – Online
Top Selling Tractors Mahindra Swaraj Sonalika Tafe: भारत में हर महीन ट्रैक्टर की अच्छी खासी बिक्री होती है और सेगमेंट में महिंद्रा के साथ ही महिंद्रा स्वराज, सोनालिका, टैफे, आइशर, एस्कॉर्ट्स, जॉन डियर, कुबोटा और फोर्स मोटर्स समेत अन्य कंपनियों ने पिछले महीने, यानी 2022 में अच्छी बिक्री हुई। हालांकि, सेल्स रिपोर्ट देखें तो मंथली के साथ ही एनुअल सेल में भी फरवरी में गिरावट देखने को मिली है। महिंद्रा टॉप पोजिशन पर है और इसके बाद महिंद्रा स्वराज और सोनालिका जैसी कंपनी टॉप 3 में है। आप भी उन दिनों अगर नया ट्रैक्टर खरीदने की सोच रहे हैं तो पहले यहां जान लें कि पिछले महीने किन-किन कंपनियों के कितने ट्रैक्टर्स बिके? फरवरी 2022 ...
Govt. Policies
Now, government plans to launch super app for farmersedit
The Economic Times – Online
he government plans to launch a super app for farmers, consolidating multiple digital entities and existing mobile applications meant for them, said an official at the ministry of agriculture and farmers’ welfare. The consolidation will help farmers in accessing information such as latest research and development, weather and market updates, services available, government schemes and advisories for different agro-climatic zones under one umbrella. The ministry is looking at combining apps like Kisan Suvidha, Pusa Krishi, MKisan, Shetkari Masik Android App, Farm-o-pedia, Crop Insurance Android App, AgriMarket, Iffco Kisan and ICAR’s Krishi Gyan among others. “The compilation of different apps under a super app at one place will help the farmers in choosing from a ...
Farmers Friendly Booklet’ For Agriculture Schemes & Programmes In English Releasededit
Krishi Jagran – Online
K. K. Sharma, Director Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare, Jammu, released a Farmers’ Friendly Booklet at Baba Jitto, Kissan Kendra, Talab Tillo, including data of schemes and programmes of Agriculture and associated departments in English language. The booklet was published in front of a multitude of farmers, including Joint Director Agriculture (Inputs), A. S. Reen, Joint Director (Extension), Subash Chander Sharma, Joint Director (Apiculture & Mushroom), Iqbal Singh, Deputy Director of Agriculture (Trainings), Deepak Kumar, and others. The Director stated that the efforts of the Directorate of Agriculture will have far-reaching implications and will assist farmers in comprehending the different farmer welfare initiatives of the Government of India. Understanding of the programmes by farmers and ...
Union Agriculture Ministry To Draft Standards For Natural Farmingedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
A 12-member committee has been formed by the national center for organic and natural farming of the department of agriculture and farmer welfare(DA&FW) of the Union agriculture ministry to develop rules for a natural farming certification system. The group will discuss developing a pesticide residue-free product certification system and process guidelines. It will outline the contours of the natural farming system, including standards, as well as define and develop simplified compliance assessment procedures, develop a minimum set of documents required at various levels, suggest an institutional framework for the operation of the certification system, investigate the feasibility of providing a comprehensive certification system that includes crop, livestock, and processing, suggest a specific logo for pesticide ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Tauktae damaged crops of over Rs 85 cr in Amreli, Rs 47 cr paid to farmers: Govtedit
The Indian Express – Online
CYCLONE Tauktae damaged agricultural crops valued at more than Rs 85 crore in Amreli district and the state government paid more than Rs 47 crore compensation to more than 31,000 affected farmers of that district, the state government informed the Gujarat Assembly on Monday. In a written reply to a question asked by Congress MLA from Amreli Assembly constituency Paresh Dhanani, agriculture minister stated that Tauktae, which struck Amreli coast on May 17 night last year, caused damage worth Rs 85.72 crore to standing crops in that district. According to the state government, Dhari taluka reported the highest extent of damage among all the 11 talukas of Amreli, estimated at Rs 15.56 crore. Highest ...
Paddy in India
Govt’s paddy procurement reaches 741.62 lakh tons so far in 2021-22 seasonedit
Moneycontrol – Online
The Centre has procured 741.62 lakh tonne of paddy in the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year so far at the minimum support price (MSP), Union Food Ministry said on Monday. “Till now about 105.14 lakh farmers have been benefitted with MSP value of Rs 1,45,358.13 crore,” the ministry said in a statement. A quantity of 741.62 lakh tonne of paddy has been procured till March 27 of the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year, it said. Out of the total procurement undertaken so far, maximum of 187.28 lakh tonne of paddy has been procured from Punjab, followed by 92.01 lakh tonne from Chhattisgarh, 70.22 lakh tonne from Telangana, 55.30 lakh tonne from Haryana and 66.53 lakh tonne from Uttar ...
70.22 lakh tonne Kharif paddy procured from TSedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said that they had procured 70.22 lakh tonnes of paddy in the 2021-22 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS), up to March 27, 2022. In terms of procurement, Telangana stood in third position after Punjab and Chhattisgarh. The Ministry procured 1.87 crore tonnes from Punjab and 92 lakh tonnes from Chhattisgarh. In a statement on Monday, the Ministry said that as many as 10,62,428 farmers had benefited through the procurement. The Ministry procured the paddy was worth `13,763.12 crore. Paddy procurement was progressing smoothly in Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2021-22 at minimum support price (MSP) from farmers, as was done in previous years. A quantity of ...
Stubble Burning
High temp, crop burning take toll on air qualityedit
The Times of India – Online
A spike in temperature, burning of crop residue and increase in construction activity has led to an increase in pollutants levels in the air pushing Air Quality Index (AQI) over 100 for most of March and February. AQI remained over 100 for most of March while on March 15 it went to 218, according to the online data from the Central Pollution Control Board. AQI between 0-50 indicates good air quality and levels between 51-100 shows satisfactory levels, 101 to 200 are moderate and above 200 is poor category. O P Joshi, an environmentalist said, “There are several factors contributing to the rise in pollutants levels. Apart from the weather conditions, construction work, ...