Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Good Agriculture Practices for Agriculture Sustainability and Food Securityedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
In this modern era, with the increasing per capita income, consumers are becoming more and more conscious about their health. Production of safe food is not only important for consumers’ health but also for a sustainable environment and healthy working conditions for those producing the agricultural produce. However often while talking about safe food production, the health of the farmer is not taken into consideration. The workers who spray pesticides are the most vulnerable to its impact. Due to a lack of awareness and knowledge about safe and hygienic farming practices, a greater number of workers are found not using personal protective equipment while spraying pesticide. It is necessary for the producers and traders to ...
WEF 2022: How Indian smallholder farmers could soon access carbon creditsedit
Business Standard – Online
The world’s population is expected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050. As our numbers swell, so too does the pressure on the agriculture industry and its farmers. A great responsibility for feeding the world falls on India, which is the second-largest producer of staple foods like rice, wheat, groundnuts, fruits and vegetables globally. Contributing almost 20% to total GDP, providing employment to over half its 1.4 billion inhabitants and serving as the main source of livelihood for over 70% of rural households, agriculture is also a crucial sector for India itself. Yet it also exists as a primary contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) through deforestation, land use, and the cultivation of rice, the ...
Competition
M&M’s Krish-e has redefined the art of bonding with farmersedit
Autocar Professional – Online
Its definitions are diverse ranging from a digital tool that helps farmers increase their yield right up to farming as a service business. However, from Ramesh Ramachandran’s point of view, Krish-e means a lot more. “It is a brand that was born with a purpose. So, we are not sort of floating around trying to attach ourselves to some cause — we were born with the purpose and when all these entities came together, we defined what Krish-e stands for as a service, to improve farmers’ income per acre. So we single-mindedly focused ourselves on that and that is where the brand exists,” says Mahindra & Mahindra’s Senior Vice-President Strategy & Farming-as-a Service. And what ...
Govt. Policies
Government is Providing 50% Subsidy on Agriculture Machinery & Equipment Through Token Systemedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
To help small and marginal farmers, the government has taken the initiative to provide machine subsidies. Working in this direction, the government of UP has started the UP Krishi Yantra Subsidy Scheme to help farmers. Under this scheme, up to 50 percent subsidy is given to farmers to buy agricultural machinery. Subsidy on Agricultural Machinery Will be Available Through Token Under the UP Krishi Machinery Subsidy Scheme, farmers are provided with the benefit of subsidy on agricultural machinery through tokens. Under this, tokens are issued by the Agriculture Department to the farmers. Then through these tokens, farmers of the state are given a subsidy of up to 50 percent under the Subsidy Scheme. Benefits of ...
CM: Govt’s aim is to make agriculture a profitable bizedit
The Times of India – Online
Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday that the objective of his government is to make agriculture a profitable business. Farmers should diversify agriculture and do natural farming. If they do it, they will get more profit and the fertility of the agricultural land will also be maintained. The government will give Rs 900 per month to the farmers for keeping a cow for natural farming. Jeevamrut, prepared by mixing cow dung, cow urine, jaggery, etc., increases the fertility of the soil. Chouhan was addressing a function after distributing land right records to 3.7 lakh villagers of the state under “Swamitva Yojana” in Rewa. Simultaneously, under the “Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojna”, a ...
Paddy in India
Punjab Cabinet approves incentives for direct sowing of paddyedit
Millennium Post – Online
In a major step aimed at conserving scarce natural resources like underground water through Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) technology, the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann approved Rs. 1500 per acre incentive to the farmers for sowing of paddy through this innovative technology. A sum of Rs.450 crore has been earmarked to provide incentives to the farmers for the promotion of less water consuming and cost-effective DSR technology. This step would be instrumental to save nearly about 15-20 percent water as compared to the conventional puddling method during the life cycle of crops. Pertinently, the alarming situation arisen out of fast depleting groundwater mainly due to water-guzzling traditional method of paddy transplantation ...
Farmers need not worry, we will purchase wet paddy from them: Telangana CMedit
Business Standard – Online
The Telangana government would purchase paddy that turned wet due to recent rains and the farmers need not worry about it, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Wednesday. Rao, who held a review meeting on paddy procurement, asked officials about gunny bags, transportation and other aspects of the issue, an official release said. The Chief Minister directed that paddy procurement be speeded up as rainy season is approaching. The officials informed the Chief Minister that a target of 56 lakh metric tonne of paddy has been fixed for procurement. They said 20 lakh metric tonne has been procured so far. Observing that appropriate precautions should be taken as the harvested paddy is getting wet ...