Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Kharif sowing picks up in Sinnar, Dindori & Niphadedit
Times Of India – Online
Sinnar, Dindori and Niphad talukas of Nashik district, which were lagging behind in kharif sowing, have now increased sowing activities. According to the agricultural officials, the kharif sowing in these districts was below 5% around 8-10 days back. It has increased to over 50% in these three talukas in the past few days. The kharif sowing in Malegaon and Nandgaon has reached over 92%, while 72% of the sowing has been completed in Satana taluka. The total kharif sowing in the district was only 9% by June 27. But with the revival of the monsoon, 56% of the kharif sowing has been done so far. The kharif acreage in Nashik district is estimated at ...
Farmers Want MSP for All Agri Produce, Threaten to Protest Again If Demands Not Metedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Farmers are once again threatening to stage a protest since their demand for a guaranteed minimum support price (MSP)” for all agricultural produce is still not met. The farmer groups from five southern states, including Karnataka, assembled on Tuesday in a convention held in Krishnagiri of Tamil Nadu and planned to conduct another large convention in Coimbatore in August. It must be noted that “Guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP)” for all agricultural produce and the elimination of the GST on agricultural products and equipment were both demanded by the farmers. “Resolutions were voted at the conference seeking a reform in the agricultural credit policy, compensation for crop damage by wild animals, and a call for ...
CLAAS Mentions
Smart Agriculture Market Share 2022 | Segmented by Top Manufacturers, Geography Regions, Trends and Forecasts to 2030edit
Digital Journal – Online
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Competition
Sonalika tractors clocks 39,274 unit sales in Q1 FY23edit
Autocar Professional – Online
Sonalika Tractors on Thursday announced registering its highest ever Q1FY23 overall sales of 39,274 tractors, which is 18 percent growth above 33,219 overall tractor sales recorded in the corresponding period in FY22. Sonalika management in a statement said that the jump in sales happened amidst the headwinds thrown by heat waves affecting crop production across the country. However, the minimum support price (MSP) upstick offered by the Government helped in facilitating a healthy rural cash flow which eventually helped in giving push to the track demand. With the ongoing monsoon season continuing to expand base across the country, the development is likely to further help in spurring the demand, the management added. Raman Mittal, Joint ...
Escorts Kubota to hike tractor price from July 10; stock climbs 2%edit
IIFL Securities – Online
Agri Machinery, division of Escorts Kubota Limited has announced on Thursday that it shall be increasing the prices of its tractors effective July 10, 2022 As per the regulatory filing, there has been a steady rise in commodity prices necessitating a price hike to partially offset the rise in input cost due to continuing inflation. The increase in prices would vary across models and variants. On Thursday at around 11:10 AM, Escorts Kubota was trading at Rs1,592 per share up by Rs29.65 or 1.9% from its previous closing of Rs1,562.35 per share on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs1,581.60 and has touched a high and low of Rs1,592 and Rs1,563.65 respectively so far today.
Govt. Policies
Food ministry asks states to cut mandi levies to 2%edit
The Financial Express – Online
To curb rising expenses under the food subsidy head, the Union government has asked grain-surplus states to initiate measures including restricting statutory charges such as mandi fees, rural development cess and other procurement expenses to 2% or less on the minimum support price (MSP) provided to farmers. It also asked states to follow an open tendering process to cut costs of short-term loans and move paddy stocks from procurement points directly to mills. Currently, Punjab and Haryana, which contribute substantially to the central pool of grain stocks, impose higher levies of 6% and 4%, respectively on MSP, such as mandi fee and rural development cess, besides arthiya or commission agent charges of Rs ...
Centre trying to bring in farm laws via back door, says Congressedit
The Economic Times – Online
The Congress alleged on Thursday that the Modi government is trying to bring back the repealed farm laws through the back door. The opposition party also backed the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) resolve to resume protests against what it called the refusal of the Centre to implement the demands of the farmers, including the promises made to them during the year-long agitation about setting up a committee on minimum support prices (MSP), withdrawing cases against farmers and recalling the Electricity Amendment Bill. At the All India Congress Committee briefing, spokesman Deepender Singh Hooda cited the recent call from within the NITI Aayog, through its member Ramesh Chand, for ending farm procurement and replacing it ...
HP aims to cover 5L farmers under Kisan Credit Card schemeedit
Times Of India – Online
In Himachal Pradesh, 4.36 lakh farmers have been covered under Kisan Credit Card (KCC) and a target to cover more than five lakh farmers under KCC has been set. This was informed during the meeting of chief secretary Ram Subhag Singh with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) chairman G R Chintala in Shimla on Thursday. It was informed in the meeting that during the year 2021-22, the ground level credit flow to priority sector was Rs 20260.14 crore whereas the credit flow to agriculture sector was Rs 8855.60 crore under Nabard. In 2021-22, the achievement made by Nabard under annual credit plan remained 77.98 %. In 2021-22, about Rs 7296.17 crore ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Climate Change: Heat Stress Rising in India, Monsoons Hotter Than Pre-monsoons This Yearedit
News Click – Online
Nearly three weeks after the monsoon arrived in Bihar and across India, people, mainly the working class in cities are bearing the brunt of the hot climate during the ongoing monsoon season. It is something unusual as they expected relief from heat stress following the arrival of the Monsoon period. Similarly, in rural areas, thousands of farmers are also facing a tough time saving their paddy saplings and paddy planted in the farmlands- so far due to rainfall deficit and now due to rising heat stress during the month of Ashad, traditionally known to be suitable for paddy cultivation. According to the latest research study by the Delhi-based- Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the ...
Salcete farmers report crop damage as fields waterloggededit
Times of India – Online
Incessant rain over the last few days has adversely affected paddy farmers in many parts of Salcete. Waterlogging in fields for a long period has resulted in considerable damage to crops. Zonal agricultural officer, Salcete, Shariff Furtado told TOI that reports of saplings getting flattened have started coming in from various parts of the taluka following sustained inundation of fields. “This happens when the fields remain waterlogged for a long time due to insufficient drainage systems for allowing the water to flow seawards,” Furtado said. Crops sown by mechanised transplantation methods are more susceptible to being flattened as a result of water pressure due to continuous sustained waterlogging in these fields. “This is because ...
Jharkhand’s Kharif sowing hampered by scanty monsoon rainedit
Business Today – Online
About 95 per cent of Jharkhand’s arable land, meant for paddy and other kharif (summer) crops, is lying fallow due to a 43 per cent monsoon rain shortfall, according to government data. Farmers are worried as the overall coverage of kharif crops is only 5.32 per cent against the total target of 28.27 lakh hectares of land till Wednesday. The coverage of paddy, the main crop of the season, is mere 3.15 per cent against the target of 18 lakh hectares. The coverage was recorded only from six districts where direct sowing is going on. Seedling transplantation did not take place in any of the districts till July 6, according to the sowing coverage data ...
Paddy in India
Millers not to guarantee safety of paddyedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The Rice Millers Association has decided to repudiate their guarantee letters provided to the Civil Supplies department for the safe custody of paddy given to them for custom milling. The Association met to discuss the stalemate over FCI not lifting the custom milled rice. The Association urged the Chief Minister to intervene resolve the issue. Demanding the administration to immediately withdraw paddy from the rice mills, millers asked the government not to give them paddy for processing from the next season.
Farmers in Telangana choose cotton over paddyedit
Deccan Chronicle – Online
Farmers in Telangana are avoiding paddy production even during the current kharif season as a result of the Centre’s restrictions on buying paddy from the state. Farmers now favour cotton over paddy. As a result, the state’s paddy average has drastically declined in Kharif. Kharif season starts on June 1 and ends on September 30. As per data obtained from the agriculture department till July 6, farmers in Telangana sowed paddy crops over an extent of 1,31,136 acres against 2,30,955 acres on July 6 last year. The total crop sown area for paddy for entire kharif in the state is 42,04,280 acres and the normal area till July 6 should be 2,36,238 acres. The current ...