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Agriculture Industry
Heatwave scorches farmland, impacts crop output; here’s ground report from rural Maharashtraedit
CNBC TV18 – Online
A scorching sun… lakes and rivers drying up… parched earth… an acute shortage of water… and dead or dying crop. The multiple heatwaves that have swept across many parts of India since March have wreaked havoc on the agricultural community. At Shyam Dhakre’s 5-acre plantation in Danapur in Maharashtra’s Akola area, the situation is grim. His entire harvest of bananas, worth lakhs of rupees, has been destroyed by the heat, a fall in the water table, and disrupted irrigation systems due to power cuts. Dhakre said, “The crop is getting destroyed because of the high temperatures. We are trying to use net to cover the plants, but the temperature is so high that it’s not ...
Nabard extends financial support of Rs.19,718 crore to Haryanaedit
The Indian Express – Online
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has extended financial support of Rs 19,718 crore for agriculture and rural development in Haryana during the financial year of 2022-23. The financial support has been given to various stakeholders under different NABARD schemes. According to a release, in order to bring micro irrigation facilities to farmers’ fields, Rs 24.76 crore was released under Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) for judicious use of water resources. Under developmental initiatives, NABARD released a grant of Rs 9.79 crore for supporting various development initiatives in the farm sector, off-farm sector, skill development, financial literacy and programmes on employment generation. In order to address the issue of alkaline soils, NABARD ...
Farmers are racing against poor weather to plant cropsedit
Mint – Online
Farmers are in a race against the clock to get their crops in the ground this week, with planting of corn, soybeans and wheat well behind their usual pace. Wet and cool temperatures in key parts of the Midwest have delayed farmers’ planting plans, leaving them days to get crops in the ground before they start to lose out on a bigger harvest. If they don’t, some grain traders say that already high prices for agricultural commodities could rise even more, with supplies thinning as farmers world-wide grapple with tough weather. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said 22% of corn was planted, compared with 50% for the previous-five-year average. For soybeans, 12% was planted, ...
Competition
Eicher launches premium tractors for young farmersedit
Autocar Professional – Online
Eicher Tractors, a part of Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE) launched its Prima G3 Series, a new range of premium tractors. It will be offered in the range of 40 – 60 Hp, the company informed in a statement. Mallika Srinivasan, CMD – TAFE said, “The Eicher brand, for decades, has been well-known for its trust, reliability, ruggedness and versatility in both the agriculture and commercial space. The launch of the Prima G3, brings to the progressive farmers of a modern India, more productivity, comfort and ease to match their new aspirations, and offers an enhanced value proposition that Eicher has always promised .” The PRIMA G3 series boasts of a new age design with ...
Paddy in India
Explained: Mann’s MSP promise for paddy alternatives: way forward, the economicsedit
The Indian Express – Online
After announcing incentive for adopting Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR), now the Punjab government, to encourage diversification, has said that it will provide Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops such as maize, bajra and moong if farmers cultivate them in place of paddy. Punjab has been trying to diversify area under paddy to other alternative crops for the past over three decades but ended up only increasing area under this water guzzling crop. Anju Agnihotri Chaba explains the way forward and how the economics work out for the farmers. Punjab has around 41.18 lakh hectares (lh) agriculturally cultivable land, including nearly 38 lh under agricultural crops and over three lakh hectares under horticultural crops. ...
Government To Organize Paddy Fest for Farmers to Learn Modern Agricultural Farming Techniquesedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
On Friday, the Tirunelveli district will organize a ‘Paddy Fest’ at Centenary Hall in Palayamkottai to introduce farmers to current growing techniques used throughout the world to achieve good yields in the often water-intensive crop while using less water, manure, and chemical fertilizer. Paddy accounts for 80% of the crop grown by farmers in this district, with Tamirabharani serving as the center of farming activity. The river nourishes farming operations in the surrounding Thoothukudi district while also soothing the thirst of several lakhs of people in four southern districts, including Virudhunagar. Even though farmers in Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts grow paddy on over lakh acres, each year, the output is not very outstanding because most ...
Stubble Burning
Punjab records 34% rise in stubble burning incidentsedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Punjab has recorded a 34% rise in stubble burning incidents this year as compared to the last season, with a total of 289 farm fires reported on Thursday in the state. According to the data obtained from Punjab Agricultural University’s remote sensing centre, a total of 13,558 incidents of farm fires were reported across the state till Thursday, with 816 stubble burning occurrences reported in Ludhiana alone. The stubble burning cases have witnessed a 34% rise as compared to last year’s 10,100. A total of 13,420 incidents were reported in 2020. As many as 11,701 incidents of stubble burning were reported in 2019 starting from April 1 to May 30. Ferozepur tops the chart with ...