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Govt sees 3 pc fall in wheat output at 106.41 million tonnes in 2021-22edit
The Economic Times – Online
The country’s wheat output is estimated to drop by about 3 per cent to 106.41 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June) from the previous year, agriculture ministry said in its latest estimate released on Thursday. The production is, however, lower by 4.61 per cent from the earlier estimate of 111.32 million tonnes projected for the 2021-22 crop year, the data showed. Wheat production stood at a record 109.59 million tonnes in the 2020-21 crop year. Agriculture secretary Manoj Ahuja had last week attributed the the fall in wheat production to lower crop yields, mainly in Punjab and Haryana due to the heat wave. He had also indicated wheat production could decline to ...
Farmers must adopt tech to hike income: Union ministeredit
The Times of India – Online
The income of farmers will not just double but increase further provided they adopt technologies and add value to produce and export them, said Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers welfare Kailash Choudhary. After inaugurating the three-day TechBharat – Transforming India’s Foodtech and Agronomic Landscape, organised by Laghu Udyog Bharati, IMS foundation in association with CSIR-CFTRI at CFTRI campus here on Thursday, the minister said that growing and selling products will not fetch much income. “If exported, income can be increased beyond fivefold,” he said. PlayUnmute 0% Loaded: 1.01% Fullscreen “Farmers must focus on exporting the produce. Earlier, India was dependent on other nations for agricultural produce, but today we have ...
Maharashtra expects larger area to come under agriculture productionedit
The Times of India – Online
With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting more than average rainfall in the state this year, the area under sowing and the production of food grains in the state is estimated to increase as well. In the annual Kharif review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray along with other cabinet ministers and officials, the agriculture department has estimated the cropping area for the upcoming Kharif season 2022-23 to go up to 158 lakh hectares as against 155 lakh hectares last year. According to the estimates, the production of key crops such as pulses, grains and oilseeds, too, will show an increase. Production of cereals and pulses is estimated to go up to ...
Govt. Policies
Andhra Pradesh proposes 3 crops policy from kharif seasonedit
The Times on India – Online
The state government has proposed three crops from this Kharif season. It has set a target of cultivation in 94 lakh acres for kharif season 2022. The government has already decided to release water to all deltas from the first week of June to start kharif operations. According to officials, the government has proposed to cultivate paddy in 40.34 lakh acres, groundnut in 18.40 lakh acres, cotton in 14.82 lakh acres, redgram in 6.62 lakh acres, sugarcane in 3.71 lakh acres and maize in 2.72 lakh acres. PlayUnmute Loaded: 1.01% Fullscreen The government has readied 6.84 lakh quintals of seeds worth Rs 196.7 crore to be distributed to the farmers at the Rythu ...
Paddy in India
DSR paddy sowing method not an overnight success: PAU expertedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The Punjab government-backed water-saving direct seeding of rice (DSR) technique for sowing paddy is not an over night wonder, but a result of four years of strenuous research trials that is proving beneficial for cultivating short-duration rice varieties and is also a boon for basmati cultivation, according to Dr Mukhtar Singh Gill, the principal researcher of the project at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). Gill, a retired director of the Indian Institute of Farming System Research (ICAR- Meerut), said that the trials conducted at PAU proved that paddy crops sown through DSR could save up to 25 to 30 per cent water, while in basmati crops, the DSR technique could save 50 per cent of water. ...