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Agriculture Industry
Feeding the next billion – innovations that will make a big impactedit
The Times of India – Online
Generally, when we think about threats to our environment we tend to picture smoking factories, polluting cars. We never think the cause could be the seemingly innocuous, delicious ‘Burger’ we are holding in our hands. The truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet. And the sooner we comprehend the severity of this problem (or opportunity), the better served we would be in the years to come. The global population is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050. An additional billion people for every decade or so. The critical question that arises & one that needs to be addressed today is – Are we prepared? And ...
Guest Column | Add value to agriculture for its transformationedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Food processing is a panacea to alleviate the financial stress of agriculturalists. It transforms agriculture through value addition. It has picked up over the years but is not yet as intense as it should be in food-surplus areas of the country. The food processing industry (FPI) contributes nearly 14% of manufacturing GDP, though only 10% of food is processed. It will reach an estimated turnover of $535 billion ( ₹53,500 crore) in 2025, with an annual growth of 11%. The transformation of agriculture through FPI hastens diversification, creates more jobs, enhances income, and helps retain the next generation in agriculture. It also reduces the burden on the government to procure food grains, with wider choices ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
CLAAS combine built for performance, reliability, affordabilityedit
Agri News – Online
The CLAAS TRION 740 combine is designed to provide farmers performance and reliability in an affordable machine. “This Class 7 combine has a single rotor that allows for crop flow efficiency,” said Greg Frenzel, CLAAS product manager, during the Farm Progress Show. “We’ve seen the innovation and new features all go to the Class 9 and 10 combines, so there was a gap in the market for guys with less than 3,000 acres.” CLAAS surveyed farmers in this segment for ideas on what they needed in their combine. “The top three things were performance, reliability and affordability, so we built a combine around those three requirements,” Frenzel said. “We used proven components that have been ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Recent rain may reduce yield by 2% to 2.5% in affected areas: Punjab agri dept initial reportedit
The Indian Express – Online
The recent rain may reduce the yield by 2%–2.5% in the affected area as per initial reports by the Punjab agriculture department. However, the actual damage can be calculated only after the excess water from the fields has been drained out. According to the initial field reports, which came just after the rain stopped, around 1.39 lakh hectares of area witnessed stagnation of excess water during the rain from September 22 to 26 in the state. The report says that excess water was reported in 40,000 hectares of area each in Ludhiana and Muktsar Sahib districts. In Fatehgarh Sahib district, 17,400 hectares of area and 11,700 hectares of area in Patiala district reported excess ...
Paddy in India
Farm losses: Heavy rains destroy paddy, cotton crops in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradeshedit
Down To Earth – Online
This has not been a good year for agriculture. Heatwaves and scarce rain during monsoon 2022, followed by heavy rain last week, destroyed standing crop across vast stretches in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Sukhdeep Singh, a farmer in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, has been facing losses throughout the year. Heavy rains destroyed his potato crop on January 7, 2022. The crop, planted on 10 acres, was almost ripe but was spoiled by the rainwater. Singh faced losses of Rs 20,000-25,000 per acre, meaning around Rs 2.5 lakh. After this, the severe heat in March-April 2022 shrank his wheat crop. Singh had planted wheat on 18 acres. He usually cultivated 20-22 quintals per acre but ...
Paddy arrival picks pace in Haryana mandisedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The arrival of paddy in Haryana mandis gained momentum with the harvesting operations resuming in the state after the weeklong rains. According to farmers, the rains have delayed the harvesting operations for more than a week and now harvesting will be at its peak in the next few days as most of the early maturing varieties of basmati and PR paddy are ready for harvesting. Even government agencies are scheduled to start the procurement and lifting operations of parmal rice from October, but the paddy lying in mandis has already been procured at the minimum support price of ₹2,040 per quintal following a protest by the farmers last week. They said that the registration on ...
Apart from seeds, we need more support from TN government as well: Traditional paddy farmersedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The agriculture department has set itself a target of distributing 12,645 kg of traditional paddy variety seeds with subsidy to farmers in Tiruchy district this year and has achieved 80% target, as part of the Nel Jeyaraman Scheme. However, farmers have said that they need more support from the government in the form of direct procurement centres and machinery to carry out traditional paddy farming. D Mohan, an organic farmer who has been cultivating traditional paddy for more than three years, said, “The major problem is that DPCs do not procure traditional paddy. That itself is a blow to farmers.
Stubble Burning
Why instances of stubble burning haunt Delhi-NCRedit
India Today – Online
Three years of continuous decline followed by a spike yet again since 2020 — this has been the trend of farm fires in Punjab and Haryana in the last five years. NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) detected 139 incidents of stubble burning in the last 12 days (September 15-28) in Punjab. A maximum of 121 fire counts have been reported in Amritsar district, followed by 14 in Tarn Taran, while Gurdaspur, Patiala, SAS Nagar, and SBS Nagar all reported one each. Haryana has not reported a significant number so far. The Punjab government also reported the same figures. In the two states known for high agricultural productivity, the spotlight is back on ...