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Agriculture Industry
Wheat Crisis: Centre to procure half of what it procured last year; stops procurement in Punjabedit
DownToEarth – Online
The Centre announced May 4, 2022, that it would procure only 19.5 million tonnes (MT) of wheat in 2022-23, about 56 per cent less than the target decided for this year. It also announced that government procurement of wheat in Punjab would stop from May 5. The reason given was the lesser amount of wheat reaching the mandis or wholesale markets. According to government data, around 16.2 MT of wheat was procured in the country till May 1, of which, 8 MT had been procured from Punjab, where the target set was to procure 13.2 MT. Sudhanshu Pandey, secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, said in a conference May 4 that this ...
Agriculture can make India self-reliant: Guvedit
The Times of India – Online
Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai said the only means to achieve gram swaraj as well as economic and social freedom was agriculture. “A country’s growth depends on the efforts of agriculturists and farmers and 17% to 18 % of our country’s GDP is achieved from agriculture. It is only through agriculture that we can make our country self-reliant,” Pillai said, while addressing a group of farmers during his visit to an agricultural farm in Rivona owned by a progressive farmer Pandurang Patil. Congratulating Patil for his dedication towards agriculture, Pillai said other farmers should take inspiration from him. “Raj Bhavan will also take this as a classic example and will try to do ...
Competition
Mahindra partners with J&K Bank for tractor, farm equipment loansedit
CNBC TV18 – Online
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on Thursday said it has tied up with Jammu & Kashmir Bank to offer loans for tractors and farm machinery. Farm Equipment Sector (FES), a part of Mahindra Group, has inked an MoU with the lender in this regard. As part of the partnership, J&K Bank will provide financing to prospective customers of Mahindra branded tractors and farm machinery via its branches in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Leh and Ladakh. “Access to credit is a major hindrance in allowing farmers to employ mechanisation solutions in their farmlands. With J&K Bank, we at Mahindra aim to help farmers purchase the latest Mahindra farm equipment in the region,” M&M President ...
Dairy Farming
Holland Plans to Set Up Dairy Trading Centre of Excellence in Southern UPedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
According to Michiel van Erkel, Agriculture Counsellor, Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Dutch government is eager to share its expertise in the dairy sector with India and will soon establish a Dairy Trading Centre of Excellence (DTCE) in southern Uttar Pradesh. Holland is eager to establish multiple DTCEs in India, as well as Centres of Excellence (CoE) for horticulture, floriculture, and food processing. According to the Dutch agriculture counsellor, it would assist Indian floriculturists in packing and shipping their products to various parts of the country as well as abroad. “We are in talks with the Indian government.” “It has indicated that it would prefer to establish DTCE in southern Uttar Pradesh because there is ...
Paddy in India
Traditional paddy sowing divided in four phases in Punjabedit
Hindustan Times – Online
For the first time in Punjab, the conventional method of sowing paddy saplings in puddled fields has been staggered into four phases beginning June 18 in the upcoming kharif season by dividing the state’s 23 districts into four zones, in an effort to lessen the burden on the use of power and conserve the subsoil water. The last phase of paddy sowing is after six days on June 24. “By staggering transplantation, we tend to conserve the subsoil water as with the delay, sowing will coincide with the monsoons and in the bargain, power will also be saved and also hope to avoid sudden burden on the power distribution system,” said secretary agriculture Dilraj Singh. ...
Stubble Burning
राज्य में 1247 जगह जली परालीedit
Jagran – Online
सरकार की तरफ से किसानों को जागरूक करने समेत नाड़ के सही निस्तारण के सुविधाएं मुहैया करवाने के बावजूद नाड़ जलाने के केसों में कमी नहीं आई। एक अप्रैल से चार मई तक राज्य में गेहूं की नाड़ जलाने के कुल 9518 केस सामने आ चुके हैं, वहीं पिछले वर्ष 31 मई, 2021 तक राज्य में गेहूं की नाड़ जलाने के कुल 10 हजार 100 मामले सामने थे। हालांकि इस वर्ष फिलहाल पिछले वर्ष के मुकाबले नाड़ जलाने के मामले कम हैं, लेकिन जिस रफ्तार से मामले बढ़ रहे हैं उससे जल्द ही यह मामले पिछले साल के मुकाबले बढ़ जाएंगे। इसी के तहत बुधवार को राज्य में 1247 मामले सामने आए थे। इसका असर हवा ...