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Agriculture Industry
Rajasthan becomes second Indian state to sign MoU to save soiledit
Business Standard – Online
Rajasthan has become the second Indian state to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to save soil by preventing and reversing desertification of fertile lands. In the Save Soil programme held in Jaipur on Friday night, Rajesh Chand Meena, state minister for panchayat raj and rural development, Lalchand Kataria, state agriculture minister with Sadhguru, Founder of Isha Foundation, called for immediate policy-driven action to save the state and country’s agricultural land from becoming barren. A policy needs to be constituted to save soil in the world, he said, adding: “In India, the average organic content in agricultural soils is estimated to be 0.68 per cent, putting the country at high risk of desertification and soil ...
Dairy Farming
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology: Helping Dairy Farmers Raise Healthy Cowsedit
Indian Education Diary – Online
Dairy farmers around the world have an information problem. To get the most accurate measurements of cow health and milk quality, many have to ship milk samples to labs or wait for a technician to come to the farm to collect milk samples from each cow. Now Labby, a startup founded by two MIT alumni, is helping farmers get a clearer picture of their cows’ health with a device that can test milk from individual cows in less than 10 seconds. Labby’s device sits at the front of an analytics platform that can help farmers detect diseases before they spread to the rest of the herd. Down the line, it could also give veterinarians ...
Technology in Agriculture
How technology can decrease carbon footprint in agricultureedit
The Economic Times – Online
When Barack Obama, the former US President said, “We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.” – he underlined emphatically that climate change today is the biggest challenge facing humanity. With nine of the ten hottest years on record occurring in the last decade itself, the effects of climate change are now impossible for anyone to ignore. We need urgent action to stop greenhouse gasses from entering the atmosphere and to achieve net-zero emissions. This requires international cooperation and treaties to universally, rather than unilaterally agree to decarbonizing the industries we take for granted, such as fossil fuel and agriculture. ...
Tractor industry
Stricter emission norms for tractors and farm equipment deferred againedit
The Economic Times – Online
In a boost to tractor and other agricultural equipment manufacturers, the Transport Ministry has deferred the implementation of stricter emission norms by another six months. According to officials in the know, this is on the back of global supply chain issues and demands from manufacturers. Officials say that this led to consultations within the government which concluded that the global chip shortage, among other factors, is going to hamper the implementation of these norms. It was initially planned to implement the next stage of emission norms for tractors (TREM Stage-IV) from October 1, 2020. It was later decided to defer this date to October 1, 2021, and then to April 1, 2022. The centre ...