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Agriculture Industry
Govt revises wheat production estimate downwards to 105 mn tonnes for 2021-22 crop yearedit
The Indian Express – Online
India’s wheat production stood at 109.59 million tonnes in the 2020-21 crop year (July-June). (File) The government has revised downwards the estimate for wheat production by 5.7 per cent to 105 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year ending June from the earlier projection of 111.32 million tonnes, as the crop productivity has been affected due to the early onset of summer. Addressing a press conference, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the agriculture ministry has revised the wheat production estimate downwards to 105 million tonnes for the 2021-22 crop year from 111.3 million tonnes earlier. India’s wheat production stood at 109.59 million tonnes in the 2020-21 crop year (July-June). The lowering of estimates has ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Claas to phase out forage wagon productionedit
Irish Farmers Journal – Online
Claas has announced that is has decided to discontinue the production of its forage wagons at the end of the 2022 season. The manufacturer said the method is becoming less important than the forage harvester, and is looking to free up assembly capacity to produce more of its Orbis range of maize headers at the Bad Saulgau facility in Germany. “It is evident that the self-loading wagon harvesting method is becoming progressively less important than the forage harvester, and that unit sales are continuing to decline globally. This means the loader wagon segment is evolving even more than before into a shrinking niche market sector with a regional focus,” the manufacturer said. Despite ...
Competition
Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sells 39,405 units during April 2022; Registers 51% Growthedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M Ltd.) reported today that its overall car sales for April 2022 were 45,640 units. Mahindra sold 22,168 cars in the Utility Vehicles segment in April 2022. In April 2022, the Passenger Vehicles segment (which comprises SUVs, Cars, and Vans) sold 22,526 units. The month’s exports totalled 2,703 vehicles. Mahindra tractors sold 17,402 commercial vehicles in April 2022, up 23 percent from the previous month. In April 2022, the light commercial vehicle segments of 2T, Pickups (2T to 3.5T), >3.5T, and heavy commercial vehicles all continued to rise. “We continued our growth trajectory in the SUV market with sales of 22,168 vehicles, recording a 22 percent increase,” said Veejay Nakra, President, ...
Govt. Policies
Government Encourages Farmers to Adopt Economically Sustainable Agriculture Strategiesedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
During the forthcoming Kharif season, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government will make significant reforms to Punjab’s agricultural sector in order to break the wheat-paddy cycle and make the agriculture industry more sustainable in the long run. To combat the state’s drastically diminishing groundwater levels, the government will reward farmers who partake in the direct seeding of rice (DSR) and promote the production of moong and three late-sown paddy cultivars. A detailed plan for environmentally friendly agriculture has been devised and is now ready to be implemented. Years later, successive administrations devised a crop diversification and environmentally sustainable plan, only for farmers to reject it because none of the schemes guaranteed adequate remuneration. According to ...
Paddy in India
Nearly 5k acres of paddy crop damaged due to untimely rains in Mancherialedit
Telangana Today – Online
Standing paddy crop and mango orchards which reached ripening stage were damaged due to unseasonal reasons coupled with strong gales in Mancherial district, wreaking havoc to the agriculture sector on Tuesday night. Officials said Thandur mandal registered 65 mm of rainfall, while Hajipur, Kasipet, Mandamarri, Dandepalli, Naspur, Jaipur, Luxettipet and Mancherial mandals received somewhere between 20 mm and 40 mm of rainfall. As a result, standing paddy crop was flattened by gales and untimely rains that lashed several parts of the district on Tuesday midnight. Similarly, the mango crop which was about to be harvested was affected by the rains in Thandur, Nennal, Kannepalli, Bheemini, Jannaram and many other mandals. The mangoes fell down due ...
Stubble Burning
Straw burning count in Punjab nears 10,000, four times higher than 2021edit
The Times of India – Online
Stubble burning cases continued to rise sharply in Punjab on Wednesday, as the state recorded 1,247 such cases over the 24 hours preceding the day. With this, the overall number of wheat straw burning cases for the season reached 9,518, which is only 582 cases less than the total of 10,100 straw burning cases recorded in the previous year. Up to May 4, the state has recorded four times more cases this year than in 2021, when 2,365 cases were reported in the same period. The figure was 133 in 2020. As per data from Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Gurdaspur recorded the highest number of cases on Wednesday, 185. It was followed by ...
Tractor industry
Tractors hit record sales in April as Ukraine crisis pushes up agri incomeedit
The Times of India – Online
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has helped turn around sentiments in the Indian tractor market. The strong pull of wheat exports and higher price for oilseeds in the domestic market has led to the best domestic sales the industry has seen in April. According to tractor companies, April domestic sales is 89,200 units, up nearly 41% over the 63,422 units sold last April. Exports at around 10,000 are up over 3%. Together, the tractor volumes (domestic and exports) are around the one lakh unit mark for the first time in six months. The last time that tractor sales hit the one lakh unit mark was in November 2021 when it hit a high ...