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Competition
Sales of Tractors in May 2022: Mahindra, TAFE, Sonalika, Eicher, Escorts And Othersedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
In May 2022, the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA), India’s apex national body for the automobile retail industry, reported growth across all segments. In May 2022, total retail sales were 16,46,773 units, up 206.78 percent from 5,36,795 units sold in May 2021. Overall Tractor sales climbed 215.75 percent YoY, from 16,623 unit retail sales in May 2021 to 52,487 unit retail sales in the previous month. Tractor sales in May 2020 were 10,193 units, up from 39,438 units in May 2019, indicating a consistent growth in sales despite the country’s difficulties during the previous two years. In May 2022, every tractor OEM saw a YoY increase in retail sales, with Mahindra being the only ...
Technology in Agriculture
5 Ways AI is Improving Agricultureedit
TechStory – Online
The world is in a potential hunger crisis and food shortage. In fact, according to statistics, farmers and food growers will need to increase productivity by 60 percent to feed the world’s population by 2050. To ensure that this goal can be achieved, technologies such as AI, machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), and predictive analytics need to be used in agriculture to increase efficiency, reduce cost, and increase farm productivity. As shown by the US department of agriculture’s economic research service, technologies like ML and AI bring lots of benefits when it comes to food production and distribution. In the US alone, the food production, processing, and distribution industry have an economic value of ...
Harvest Machine
Small farmers can hire heavy machinery: Telangana Agriculture Ministeredit
The New Indian Express – Online
Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy on Tuesday opined that soon, a system will be evolved where farmers with small landholdings can utilise farm machinery like cotton harvesters on a custom-hiring basis. Addressing a workshop on high-density plantation system of cotton held at the PJTSAU, the Minister said that due to smaller landholdings in Telangana, it is difficult for small farmers to own machinery like harvesters, planters and so on. He said that he was working with Minister KT Rama Rao to have rural youth manage these machinery with the help of industries department, so that they could be given to the farmers on custom-hiring basis, which will be a win-win proposition for all ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Slow monsoon progress to hit sowing of green, black gram in Puneedit
The Times of India – Online
The sowing of green and black gram might be affected in Pune due to slow monsoon progress, officials from the district agriculture office said on Tuesday. District agriculture officer Dnyaneshwar Bhote said paddy was the main crop covering 60,000 hectares. “Paddy cultivators will now start planting saplings after 25-30 days. If the district does not get the required rainfall, paddy cultivation too will be affected,” he said. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has reported deficit rainfall in the district. Till June 13, the district received 28mm rainfall as against its normal of 66.4mm. “The sowing requires widespread continuous spells of rainfall for at least two to three days. Only then the soil conditions ...
Paddy in India
AP plans cultivation in 1 cr acres for kharif; paddy gets 50% shareedit
The Times of India – Online
State government has set a whopping target of cultivation in one crore acres across state for current kharif season. Out of this almost 50 per cent goes to paddy cultivation. The officials have prepared the schedule for the kharif season, which started with sowing for seedbeds from Tuesday. The state government has already released water for Krishna and Godavari deltas in the first week of June. As the water reaches the paddy fields in the deltas and the monsoon too entered the state, the farmers have started the season by wetting the fields to raise seedbeds. The officials have made plans to have paddy cultivated in over 50 lakh acres in this season. ...
Kuruvai paddy cultivation yet to gain pace in Thanjavuredit
The New Indian Express – Online
Even though water from Mettur dam was released on May 24, well ahead of the scheduled date of June 12, Kuruvai cultivation is yet to pick up pace in Thanjavur. This is due to various reasons, including the delayed release of Cauvery water into the Grand Anaicut Canal (Pudhu Aaru), owing to the construction work of a bridge across the river. While water was released from Kallanai into Cauvery, Vennaru and Kollidam river on May 27, it was released from Kallanai into the river only on June 5. According to sources, the early release of water from Mettur was expected to increase paddy coverage to 70,000 hectares in the district, against the usual ...
Paddy sowing starts today: Heatwave, delayed rains leave Haryana farmers worriededit
Hindustan Times – Online
Paddy transplantation is all set to start in Haryana on June 15, but the extended dry spell, coupled with delayed monsoon and insufficient power supply to the agriculture feeders, has left the farmers high and dry. From Wednesday, there will be no restrictions on transplantation, but most of the farmers seem unable to start the process amid heatwave as they said that the tube well water is not sufficient to flood their fields for puddling. The government has announced cash incentive of ₹4,000 for direct seeded rice (DSR) method, which requires 70% less water and 30% less input cost than the traditional method. But most of the farmers are still in the favour of the ...
Paddy sowing: plans to save subsoil water in Punjab ruined as hot weather plays spoilsportedit
Hindustan Times – Online
High temperatures hovering between 42-46 degrees Celsius has put paid to plans of saving the subsoil water in Punjab during the ongoing paddy sowing season, causing concern among agricultural experts and environmentalists, who are hoping for a good rainfall spell to ease the situation. Paddy sowing by conventional method of transplanting saplings in puddled fields began from Tuesday and owing to the severe heat wave, the water usage will increase by 10 to 20%, say the experts in Punjab agricultural university (PAU). The state agriculture department, the PAU and Punjab state power corporation limited (PSPCL) have hinged their hopes on a rainfall spell, predicted by the state meteorology department for three to four days from ...
Tractor industry
Bounty for tractor makers as farmers benefit from open-market sale of wheatedit
Business Standard – Online
The bounty earned by farmers from the sale of wheat in the open market to private traders has given tractor makers in India one more reason to cheer. Farmers used the proceeds from the windfall to purchase tractors, leading to a sharp 44 per cent spike year-on-year (YoY) in the first two months of the April-June quarter — the highest in four years for the comparable period — reveals the data from the Tractor and Mechanization Association. Farmers may have earned an additional Rs 5,994 crore this year. They achieved this by selling their wheat crops to private traders at higher rates rather than offering the grain to the government at the minimum support price ...