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Agriculture Industry
India’s wheat export ban a cause of ‘deep concern’, says US agriculture secretaryedit
CNBC TV18 – Online
US agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack expressed “deep concern” over India’s move to ban wheat exports at the G-7 meeting in Germany on Monday. The ban has resulted in a rally in already elevated wheat prices. While emphasising the importance of frictionless global trade, Vilsack said India was constraining the ability to access their wheat, CNBC TV18 reported. Export bans distort the market and India’s ban on the commodity was a “wrong thing at this time”, he said. “What we need is transparency in the market, what we need is a market that is helping to get goods to those who are in need,” Vilsack told reporters on a call. Expressing disappointment over India’s decision to ...
Govt. Policies
Government is Providing Financial Assistance & Subsidies for Dronesedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Drones are already being used commercially in India’s large agriculture industry, thanks to a variety of incentives. New official rules for a project named Kisan Drone provide large incentives for unmanned aerial vehicles for both farmers and organizations. Drones have the potential to transform farming by making it more intellectual and efficient, but experts warn the costs are still exorbitant for smallholders. Jyotiraditya Scindia, the minister of civil aviation, unveiled a drone experience studio at the state-run think tank NITI Aayog on Tuesday. Drone Shakti and Kisan Drone are two measures he announced. The former aims to increase adoption in non-agricultural areas. In a country where farm incomes are around one-third of non-agricultural families’, technology ...
Paddy in India
Rising temperatures help farmers dry paddy cropedit
Deccan Chronicle – Online
Temperatures have been rising for the past two days, causing great discomfort to the general public. The temperatures were at 38 degree C at Rajamahendravaram, 35 degree C at Kakinada and Amalapuram, 38 degree C at Ramachandrapuram while the people of Godavari districts experienced heat wave conditions. Meanwhile, the farmers in the Eastern Delta and Central Delta are happy that they were able to dry their wet crop. The recent Àsani’ cyclonic rainfall and floods had submerged the paddy fields and the harvested paddy too got wet. Now, with the rising temperatures in the range of 35 to 38 degrees in Eastern Delta and Central delta, the farmers are able to dry their paddy. They ...
Haryana farmers to get ₹4,000 per acre for growing paddy using direct-seeded rice methodedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Encouraged by the cultivators’ response to its incentive-driven policy of promoting direct-seeded rice (DSR) technique last year, Haryana agriculture department on Tuesday set one lakh acre as the target of sowing paddy with this water-saving alternative method in 12 leading paddy-growing districts. The DSR method does not require more labour and squeezes water consumption and production cost. The agriculture department will promote this rice production technique in 12 districts where groundwater is already alarmingly low. And farmers opting for DSR technique will receive ₹4,000 per acre incentive. Last year, when this first-of-its-kind scheme was launched in eight districts, the agriculture department had set 2.5 acre limit to each farmer to grow paddy using DSR technique. ...
Stubble Burning
रोक के बाद भी खेतों में जला रहे परालीedit
Jagran – Online
खेतों में पराली नहीं जलाने के शासनादेश का असर ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में आज भी नहीं दिख रहा है। जबकि पर्यावरण की सुरक्षा के लिए बार-बार अधिकारियों द्वारा भी इस पर रोक लगाने दिशानिर्देश दिया जा रहा है। कृषि वैज्ञानिकों की राय है कि खेत में कुछ ऐसे मित्र कीट होते हैं जो खेतों की उर्वरा शक्ति को बढ़ाने में सहायक होते हैं जिससे किसानों को अच्छी पैदावार प्राप्त होती है। यह सब जानने के बाद भी कतिपय किसानों द्वारा खेतों में पराली जलाने का सिलसिला जारी है। सोमवार की शाम खेजुरी थाने से 200 गज की दूरी पर एक किसान पराली जला रहा था फिर भी इसे अनदेखी कर दिया गया। जबकि उपजिलाधिकारी सिकंदरपुर प्रशांत नायक ...
Tractor industry
Tractor business makes a comeback in Apriledit
The Economic Times – Online
Tractor sales in India picked up to a record in April, snapping months of decline, as higher cash flow from healthy rabi crops made it easier for farmers to purchase farm equipment. Sales in April grew by 41% from a year ago after posting a decline for five months in a row. Hemant Sikka, president of farm equipment business at Mahindra & Mahindra, told ET that April of 2022 was the best-ever April in the history of the tractor industry with over 89,000 units sold, a new benchmark for this period compared with the previous high of around 66,700 units in April 2019. Tractor manufacturers expect this momentum to sustain and are ramping up ...