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Agriculture Industry
Agriculture for sustainability in the mountainous areas of Uttarakhandedit
The Times of India – Online
Uttarakhand is bestowed with natural beauty — mainly, the mountains, its slopes and elevations, perennial rivers, forests and the fertile terai area. In the state, 86% of the total geographical area is mountainous. And about 70% of its population is living in rural areas, depending mainly on agriculture. In addition, only 13% area in hills is under agriculture. That, too, is not fully utilised and about 60% of the agricultural land either has been converted into forest land or lying fallow as grassland. In addition, the hill region has tremendous opportunities to grow indigenous varieties falling under various types of cultivation, like traditional, medicinal, horticultural and agro-forestry in different agro-ecological regions. This needs ...
Opinion: Agriculture can enable regional unityedit
Telangana Today – Online
The failure of both the UPA and the NDA to fulfil the aspirations of the people and sectors across the country, including agriculture, has created space for the regional parties to emerge with new hope and dimension in the process of development as they focus on local issues and challenges. The political fragmentation and the rise of regional political parties has been one of the most important trends in India’s electoral politics in the last few decades. The regional parties that were marginal players on the national scene helped form national governments in 2004 and 2009. Regionalism is no longer viewed as a negation of nationalism or nation-building. Leaders of the regional parties have started ...
Dairy Farming
UP top milk producer in India, 9 new dairy plants to be ready by 2024: CMedit
Business Standard – Online
Uttar Pradesh is India’s largest milk producer and nine new greenfield dairy plants will get functional in the state in the next two years, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday. He sought the National Dairy Development Board’s further support for the dairy sector in the state and assured all cooperation from his government. Adityanath said UP now has 319 lakh metric tonnes of annual milk production and contributes 16 per cent of India’s dairy production and is the top milk-producing state in the country. He made the appeal and shared the figures during his speech at the inaugural session of the International Dairy Federation World Dairy Summit 2022, being held in Greater Noida. The ...
India’s dairy sector a unique model for world, says PM Modiedit
The Hindustan Times – Online
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s dairy sector is a unique model for world, run mostly by women and small farmers, who have made the country the largest milk producing nation globally. The prime minister, inaugurating the International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit in Greater Noida, said fast digital payments directly to farmers’ account, a cooperative model and a business run mostly by women represent a model that can be an example for many countries. Welcoming the delegates, Modi said the summit will also give an opportunity for Indian dairy farmers to interact and learn from others. Listing four rare characteristics of India’s dairy farming, Modi said: “Cattle wealth and the milk ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Monsoon 2022: Why a drought wasn’t declared in 4 states with drought-like conditionsedit
DownToEarth – Online
A severe deficit in the rainfall during monsoon 2022 has affected Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar. However, state governments have shied away from declaring a drought in the states even though Kharif-sowing was badly hit. Uttar Pradesh government directed a drought survey in all its districts September 8, 2022. The collection for tubewell bills for the three months of Kharif season, which started in June, has been put on hold. Over 300 blocks in Uttar Pradesh are affected by drought, while 382 blocks are drought-prone, according to Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC), a central government agency. Over 700 blocks of 91 districts in the four states have been affected, a report said. MNCFC ...
Heavy rain brings back flood fear in Odishaedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Barely a month after flood caused widespread damage in several districts across the State, people of Balasore, Kalahandi and Ganjam are once again fearing the worst after heavy rains lashed the districts. Farmers of low-lying villages under five gram panchayats in Basta block of Balasore district are in panic as water of Jalaka river has started entering their agriculture land. The water level of the river was 6.40 metre at 2 pm on Monday at Mathani against the danger level of 5.50 metre. Over 500 hectare farmland has been inundated in Baharda, Mathani, Dudhahansa and Bashichakurai panchayats of Basta and Rashalpur panchayat in Sadar block. Officials of Agriculture and Revenue departments rushed to ...
Paddy in India
Paddy crop over 34K hectares hit by dwarf disease in Punjab; 5% crop loss likelyedit
Hindustan Times – Online
In a report compiled by the state agriculture department, the dwarf disease in paddy crop has been observed in at least 34,000 hectares in Punjab with the state agriculture department projecting an average of 5% crop loss in the affected fields, and roughly 1% is the overall impact. The survey by the department said the maximum impact of the dwarf disease was reported in paddy fields of Mohali (6,440 hectares), Pathankot (4,520 hectares), Gurdaspur (3,933 hectares), Ludhiana (3,500 hectares), Patiala (3,500 hectares) and Hoshiarpur (2,782 hectares), a senior official of the agriculture department said on Monday. Ludhiana-based Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) had earlier found southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV), which is also known as ...
Stubble Burning
Farmers in Punjab to Get Super Seeder, Happy Seeder & Zero Drill Machines for Stubble Managementedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Punjab’s agriculture minister said that farmers will receive 56,000 machines for controlling paddy stubble and the state government would take all necessary steps to prevent stubble burning during the upcoming paddy harvesting season. The agriculture department would distribute 56,000 machines under the in-situ management of the stubble scheme this season, bringing the total number of units to 1,46,422, according to Dhaliwal. According to him, farmers received 90,422 machines between 2018 and 2022. Dhaliwal further said now small farmers would also get machines like super seeder, happy seeder, zero drill as 500 such equipment will be sent to 154 blocks of the state. He said after September 15, officers in the agriculture department ...
Tractor industry
Tractor purchase in India lowest in two months; 32 percent down in August 2022edit
Krishi Jagat – Online
The last two months have been difficult for the tractor industry as the sales did not pickup. The month of July saw a 27% fall in sales followed by August with further fall in sales reaching 32% decline over last year. The total tractors sold in the month of August 2022 us 49,305. The industry has blamed the monsoon for this low sales volumes for second consecutive month. The over all agriculture season in India was impacted due to erratic monsoon in the start of the season which resulted in low area coverage in major crops such as paddy which saw a decline of 6% reaching 393 lakh hectares compared to last year area coverage ...