Bolly Inside– Online

Feeding the world’s ever-growing population, which is expected to exceed 9.9 billion people by 2050, is an unparalleled task for modern agriculture. Along with the expanding African and Latin American agricultural markets, countries with historically strong agricultural sectors continue to expand their production capacity. The United States is one of those countries where large swaths of land with fertile soils conducive to crop development provide enormous opportunity for farms of all sizes. Experts predict that by 2022, the United States would have over two million agribusinesses, including agroconsultancies.

News on Air – Online

Keeping in view of doubling farmers incomes, the government is working on a mission mode to boost the digital infrastructure creation in the agriculture sector under Digital Agriculture Mission.

In September 2021, the government announced the launch of Digital Agriculture Mission 2021–2025 to support and accelerate agri-growth, leveraging technologies, like AI, block chain, remote sensing and GIS technology and use of drones and robots.

Krishi Jagran – Online

A collaborative joint sector program is being launched in a first-of-its-kind initiative to encourage small farmers to adopt environmentally sustainable agriculture practices, particularly in rice-growing regions of the country. Farmers will be able to earn carbon credit for using low tillage and direct seeding techniques.

Grow Indigo (GIPL), a joint venture between seed giant Mahyco and US-based Indigo, is spearheading the carbon farming initiative. Initially, the scheme would focus on rice-growing areas in Punjab and Haryana, before expanding to include Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.

The Times of India– Online

Punjab has not been able to effectively reap the benefits under the central government’s national food security mission (NFSM) to increase production of food grains in the last five years. The data presented by Union minister of agriculture and farm’s welfare Narendra Singh Tomar in the Lok Sabha reveals that the state government has not spent a single penny under this scheme in the last four years — from 2018-19 to 2021-22. It was in 2017-18, during the first year of Congress regime in the state, that Punjab saw an expenditure of Rs 7.19 crore under the NFSM.