Media Monitor
Technology in Agriculture
India’s agriculture challenges can be addressed with AIedit
Inventiva – Online
Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology have the potential to support our farmers in overcoming a range of challenges. These technologies provide farmers with enhanced decision-making as one of their core benefits. Increased access to markets, inputs, data, guidance, loans, and insurance would benefit farmers in India’s agricultural sector. Smallholder farming in India may benefit significantly from having access to AI models that may boost farm revenue, optimize input costs, and de-risk agriculture through quick data intervention. Before farmers fully embrace digital technology, it is crucial to educate them and help them realize the advantages it will bring to agriculture. The success of this endeavour depends on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). For the ...
Govt. Policies
Yeshasvini scheme will be launched on Oct 2: Ministeredit
The Times of India – Online
Minister of cooperation S T Somashekar said that the Yeshasvini Cooperative Farmers Health Care Scheme will be reintroduced on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2. The minister who was in the Kukke Subrahmanya Temple here on Saturday, said that the scheme could not be implemented in the past three years. “We are planning to reintroduce the scheme after nearly three years. Several cooperative societies and farmers have requested the government to reintroduce the scheme. We are making preparations to implement the scheme again on October 2,” the minister told reporters on Saturday. “Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and home minister Amit Shah will launch the scheme again in the state. The registration ...
Stubble Burning
States asked to formulate plans for biomass co-firing in power plantsedit
Business Standard – Online
The Ministry of Power has asked states to formulate time-bound plans to ensure the utilisation of biomass for co-firing in thermal power plants ahead of the Kharif harvest season to reduce stubble burning and air pollution. To address the issue of air pollution and to reduce the carbon footprint of thermal power generation, the Ministry of Power issued a revised policy in October last year for the use of agro residue-based biomass and mandated the use of five to seven per cent of biomass co-fired along with the coal for all thermal power plants. Farm stubble burning plays a major role in air pollution across the country. A senior official told PTI that the power ...