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CLAAS ANNOUNCES TERRA TRAC FOR AXION TRACTORedit
Successful Farming – Online
Claas is bringing the Terra Trac friction drive track from its line of combines to the Axion 900 tractor series with the Axion 900 TT, making for the Claas’ first half-track tractor with full suspension. Also announced was the new Trion 740 combine, a Class 7 machine, designed for small- to mid-size farming operations with a focus on corn and soybean production. “Innovative, efficient, reliable and bold are a few words I would use to describe the Trion 740 and Axion 900 TT,” says Eric Raby, senior vice president for Claas. “By listening to the needs of our customers and bringing our brightest thinking into research and development, Claas is providing customers with two truly ...
Competition
Made in Telangana tractors find their way to 60 countriesedit
Telangana Today – Online
K T Rama Rao would not lose a single opportunity to get some investments to the State. This was evident when the industries minister visited the Mahindra Tractors manufacturing centre to launch the 3,00,001st tractor made in Telangana. On the occasion, he posed with the tractor and then tweeted: “Hey@anandmahindraji, you may have to bring more business to my State for the way I’ve been posing and marketing your products.” The light-hearted appeal on twitter elicited an immediate response from Mahindra group chief Anand Mahindra. Using the same medium, he tweeted his reply calling Rama Rao as a “phenomenal brand ambassador” and expressing concern he might be ‘stolen by the skyrocketing Tollywood empire’! Rama Rao ...
Govt. Policies
Lucknow: ₹603crore agriculture scheme to boost farmer’s incomeedit
The Times of India – Online
The agriculture department has started work on rolling out the Rs 603 crore Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Kisan Samriddhi scheme in Uttar Pradesh. Issuing a government order on Wednesday, the department has set a goal of changing the status of 2.19 lakh hectare of unproductive land for agriculture purposes. Barring Gautam Budh Nagar all the remaining 74 districts are going to be covered under the scheme. Officials said due to limited agriculture activity in Noida and Greater Noida and unavailability of farm workers, the UP-NCR district was not included in the scheme. Additional chief secretary Devesh Chaturvedi said that the scheme will increase the income of the marginalized farmers and workers and will create ...
Paddy in India
So rice! Malayalis off paddy fields, Bengal workers step inedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Thufan, 23, from Murshidabad in West Bengal, wears a T-shirt with ‘Palakkadan Karshaka Munnettam’ written on it as he gets ready for the day’s work at a paddy field in Kuthanur. He is one among the 200-odd workers from Murshidabad who come to Kerala every year to work at paddy fields. Unlike other migrant labourers from north Indian states who slog at building construction sites and quarries, these male workers prefer farming as they own paddy fields back home and can earn up to Rs 1,300 per day. “Most of these work were done by women labourers in the state, but they prefer to do MNREGA jobs. They come at 7am and go ...
Tamil Nadu: ‘Procure paddy with 22% moisture’edit
The Times of India – Online
Welcoming chief minister M K Stalin’s appeal to the Prime Minister to start paddy procurement from September 1, instead of the usual date of October 1, farmers in the delta region have appealed to him to do the needful to procure the paddy with 22% moisture content. This moisture level should be the retained till every procurement centre gets a dryer. “It was a proactive decision taken by the chief minister and it is appreciable,” the secretary of Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmer’s Protection Association, Swamimalai S Vimalnathan, said. “Every year farmers suffer a lot during kuruvai harvest as it falls during the monsoon. However, the Union government has fixed the moisture content of ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble burning amid rising fodder prices: Why the paradoxedit
DownToEarth – Online
A strange paradox emerged in the primary economic sector in India recently: A section of farmers, especially in Punjab, burnt the residue after harvesting their wheat even as fodder prices shot up. Wheat yield has been relatively low this year, anyway, and the stubble could have supplemented farmers’ income. Yet, they decided to set their fields on fire. Why? Several farmers told Down To Earth that they took to burning stubble as they were in a hurry — the state had set June 10 as the date to sow paddy. Fodder in Punjab is known as ‘tudi’ and is made from wheat stubble. The tudi rate in the state was Rs 950-Rs 1,100 per quintal before ...