Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Why Indian govt’s move to ban wheat exports was necessaryedit
The Hans India – Online
A country like India, with food inflation steadily rising and knowing well that it has over 800 million nutritionally poor whose food security is of paramount importance, the country has to be watchful for two reasons. First, several global climate studies say that extreme heat wave incidences will now become frequent, from an average of once in 100 years, to once in 3 years. Who know therefore how the weather will perform in the months to come, how the monsoons will behave, and so on. Secondly, there is still a remote possibility of pandemic showing its head again, which means India must be ready with enough grain surpluses in its kitty. At a time ...
Budget
UP budget 2022: Focus on farmers’ welfare, Rs 12,800 crore earmarked for agricultureedit
The Times of India – Online
Riding high on popular central schemes, including the flagship PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, the Yogi Adityanath government has made yet another bid to reach out to the farmers by making a state budgetary allocation of over Rs 12,800 crore to the agricultural sector in 2022-23. In 2021-22, the state government had allocated Rs 12,340 crore which was later revised to Rs 11,430 crore. Of the total allocation, over Rs 6,200 crore has been earmarked for activities related to crop cultivation, while over Rs 1,100 crore has been allocated for soil and water conservation. Around Rs 6,000 crore has been earmarked for animal husbandry, dairy development, fisheries, forestry, horticulture, foodgrain storage and agriculture ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Claas celebrates 25 years of the Terra Tracedit
Agriland – Online
This year marks 35 years of Claas fitting rubber tracks to its premium range of combine harvesters, and 25 years of producing them to their own design. They are proving to be increasingly popular. In the first year just 10% of combines were ordered with them fitted, that now stands at 50% overall and up to 90% in the UK. The Caterpillar connection The first track units were brought in from Caterpillar and fitted to the late Dominator range. They served their purpose well, but, at 4m in width, they had the drawback of being too wide for European roads. The prototype units running on a Mega, which was the last of the Dominator models, in ...
Competition
FOCUS-Deere tapping into Apple-like tech model to drive revenueedit
Devdiscourse – Online
Deere & Co has sold its tractors and other equipment to farmers for decades, but the world’s largest agriculture machinery manufacturer is tearing a page from the technology world’s playbook – combining cutting-edge hardware with software and subscription models to drive revenue growth. In a world with a dwindling number of grain producers and a growing population, Deere and its rivals are developing self-driving equipment loaded with the latest software that is harvesting a new kind of bumper crop: data. All that translates into recurring revenue, something companies like Apple have long enjoyed and industrial manufacturers like Deere hungrily eye. “The more technology we can develop to allow farmers to get productivity out of their land ...
Paddy in India
Explained: How SRI method of sowing paddy saves 15-20% water, gives better yieldedit
The Indian Express – Online
The Punjab government is promoting Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) technique of paddy, which saves water and labour cost against the conventional puddling method and farmers can also have one more option of rice sowing, but the old method is not popular and well researched in the state. When the state is not ready to shun paddy sowing, any technique that claims to save groundwater must be researched and promoted in the state. Experts said that this method is beneficial for the soil, environment and farmers. What is this technique, how it is different from puddled transplanting and what are its benefits? The Indian Express explains. What is this water and environment saving technique? ...