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Agriculture Industry
Revitalising agriculture key to remove poverty & hungeredit
The Hans India – Online
Let us face it. Whether we agree or not, the biggest challenge the country continues to be confronted with is removing poverty and hunger. After all, saddled with a large population of world’s hungry, India’s ‘tryst with destiny’ – recalling the words of Jawaharlal Nehru – still continues to haunt the relatively young nation. As India celebrates 75 years of Independence, and looks ahead to the next 25 years to usher in an era of prosperity and fulfilment, ‘poverty’ and ‘hunger’ are the two words that I find conspicuously missing from the public discourse. While reams of newsprint have been rolled out on the significant achievements made in the first 75 years, and point ...
Govt. Policies
APEDA initiates pilots to boost export of agricultural products under ODOPedit
Financial Express – Online
To boost unique agricultural products under the one district one product (ODOP) programme, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has initiated pilots in seven districts across five states for providing necessary infrastructure and financial assistance through convergence mode. The districts where the pilots have been initiated include Lucknow (mango) in Uttar Pradesh; Nagpur (mandarin orange), Nasik (onion), Sangli (grapes) in Maharashtra, Krishna (mango) in Andhra Pradesh ,Kumuram Bheem (millets) in Telangana and Dharamapuri (millets) in Tamil Nadu. In identified clusters, APEDA in collaboration with the ministry of food processing is organising sensitisation workshops of farmer producer organisations (FPOs), farmer producer companies (FPCs) and self-help groups (SHGs) for boosting exports of unique ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Erratic rainfall: Jharkhand scientists ask farmers not to depend on paddy aloneedit
Lagatar News – Online
Climate and agricultural scientists of Jharkhand suggest farmers of the state to accept the changing climate and be prepared with various options to cultivate their farmland as per the prevailing weather conditions here and now. With rainfall becoming more erratic leading to drought in some places while flooding in some others and weak monsoon in the first two sowing months of June and July becoming more frequent, scientists recommend farmers to use short duration crop varieties. “Paddy sowing period generally ends by July. This time with deficient rainfall farmers may go up till August 15 or a few days more. After that there has to be another plan,” said Dr S Karmakar, Director, Seed and ...
Monsoon Hampered Paddy Sowing by 13 Percent This Kharif Seasonedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
This Kharif season, farmers in India have planted less paddy. According to the most recent acreage data, the area under paddy cultivation is more than 13% lower than the previous Kharif season. Kharif crops are mostly sown during the monsoon season (June and July), and harvested between October and November. Farmers had planted paddy on 23.15 million hectares as of July 29, compared to 26.70 million hectares the previous season. The primary cause of the decrease in sown area is the slow progression of the monsoon in June and its uneven spread in most parts of the country in July. Rice-producing states including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Assam, Karnataka, Andhra ...
Paddy in India
धान की फसल में मंडरा रहा खतरा, दिखे ये लक्षण तो बरतें सावधानी, कृषि विशेषज्ञ की मानें सलाहedit
Jagran – Online
पिछले करीब डेढ माह से भर अच्छी वर्षा होने पर खेतों में खड़ी फसल लहलहा रही है। धान की रोपाई को करीब डेढ़ माह होने के बाद फसल में कई जगहों पर जिंक की कमी के साथ-साथ बकानी रोग भी दिखने लगा है। कृषि विशेषज्ञों ने जिला भर के सभी खंडों में कई गांवों का दौरा कर फसलों में कमी दिखने पर किसानों को जागरूक करते हुए फसल उचित देखभाल को लेकर हिदायत दी हैं। जिला भर में एक लाख 18 हेक्टेयर क्षेत्र में खेती की जाती है। इसमें से करीब एक लाख 12 हजार हेक्टेयर में धान की फसल खड़ी है। पिछले दिनों ही चौधरी चरण सिंह कृषि विश्वविद्यालय हिसार के कृषि विज्ञान केंद्र की ...
Govt Begins Basmati Crop Survey to Estimate Expected Yield During Crop Year 2022-2023edit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has begun a Basmati crop survey to estimate acreage, assess crop health, and forecast aromatic and long grain rice yields during the 2022-2023 Kharif crop season using climate-based yield modelling. The Basmati crop survey is being held after a two-year hiatus because it could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions. Basmati rice is a geographically indicated (GI) agricultural product that commands a premium on the global market. The survey is being carried out by the APEDA-affiliated Basmati Export Development Foundation (BEDF). The final survey report is expected to be completed by December of this year. ...
Stubble Burning
Asia’s largest Compressed Biogas plant in Sangrur starts commercial productionedit
ET Energy World – Online
Asia’s largest Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant in Sangrur district of Punjab has now started commercial production, state’s New and Renewable Energy Minister Aman Arora said on Friday. The minister said the plant with a total capacity of 33.23 tonne CBG per day was commissioned at village Bhuttal Kalan (Sangrur) in April this year. The plant has now started commercial production of CBG, which is being supplied to Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) outlet, Arora said in an official statement. Besides, PEDA (Punjab Energy Development Agency) has also allocated 42 additional CBG projects of total capacity 492.58 Tonnes Per Day (TPD) based on paddy straw and other agro-residue to develop a lasting and sustainable solution ...