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CLAAS Global Mentions
Ultimate guide to buying a round baler 2023edit
Farmers Weekly – Online
Packing more material into every bale and increasing amounts of automation are common themes among the new and improved machines featured in our Ultimate Guide to round balers. Out go the most basic-spec Claas Rollant 520 Rake model with its feed-in tines, the New Holland Roll-Bar BR6090 and top-spec Automate versions of the Kuhn FB3135 baler and baler-wrapper. But there are newcomers from Case IH, Claas and New Holland, uprated machines with new features from Fendt, Massey Ferguson and McHale, and the return of the baling and wrapping version of Wolagri’s diminutive R500 mini round baler.
Competition
धनतेरस को लेकर जॉन डियर ट्रैक्टर की बुकिंग शुरू : नीतीशedit
Hindustan – Online
शहर के चक-रसलपुर मोड़ बाईपास पर स्थित अनुकूल एग्रो एजेंसी जॉन डियर एजेंसी लगातार 10 वर्षों से बिहार में टॉप सेलर रही है। संचालक नीतीश कुमार बताते है कि जॉन डियर ट्रैक्टर के 15 मॉडल एक से बढ़कर एक है। धनतेरस की अग्रिम बुकिंग शुरू हो गयी है। खासकर 5050 डी, 5045 डी, 5039 डी, 5405 ई मॉडल ट्रैक्टर की डिमांड सबसे ज्यादा है। उन्होंने बताया कि जीरो फ़ीसदी ब्याज पर फाइनेंस, वह भी आसान किस्तों पर ग्राहकों को दिया जाता है। अनुकूल एग्रो एजेंसी के शेखपुरा, बरबीघा, राजगीर, इस्लामपुर व हिलसा में पांच सेंटर पूर्णरूपेण संचालित हैं। शोरूम में विश्वस्तरीय वर्कशॉप के साथ-साथ स्पेयर पार्ट्स प्रचुर मात्रा में उपलब्ध हैं। अनुकूल एग्रो एजेंसी जॉन डियर ...
Govt. Policies
Lend more to agriculture sector, AP Finance Minister Buggana urges bankersedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Asserting that the government is giving top priority to agriculture sector, Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath urged bankers to lend more to farmers. He also said the government laid special emphasis on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and urged the bankers to encourage industrialists. Chairing the 220th meeting of the State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) at the Secretariat on Tuesday, Buggana reviewed the progress of various banks in implementation of the Annual Credit Plan for 2022-23 and also sector-wise targets. He said banks are playing a key role in the comprehensive development of the State and hailed the support of banks in the effective implementation of several development and welfare schemes.
Stubble burning: Haryana govt working on plan to buy paddy straw at MSP, says CM Khattaredit
PTI – Online
The Haryana government is working on a plan to buy paddy straw at minimum support price in a bid to find a permanent solution to the issue of stubble burning, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a meeting chaired by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on crop residue management and air pollution control in the Delhi-NCR region. “Working in the direction of finding a permanent solution for stubble management, the state government is also making a plan to buy paddy straw at MSP. This will directly benefit the farmers along with giving them an option of earning additional income,” Khattar said, as per an official ...
Paddy in India
Relax norms for procurement of paddy, says Tamil Nadu to Centreedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Days after several farmers’ associations protested across the delta region urging the government to procure paddy with higher moisture content, the State government on Tuesday wrote to the Union government seeking relaxation of the moisture norm from 17% to 22%. The State also assured that paddy procured under the relaxed moisture norm will be hulled immediately and the rice will conform to the Centre’s specifications. Protests erupted after direct procurement centres, citing the Centre’s norms, refused to procure paddy with 19-22% moisture content. Farmers’ associations said kuruvai paddy cultivated on four lakh hectares may get damaged or the grain may sprout if there is no relaxation in moisture content. Any delay in procurement ...
Rain drenches paddy in Haryana mandis, procurement hitedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Light to moderate rain reported in the region has affected the paddy procurement in Haryana leaving farmers high and dry. Millions of tonnes of paddy lying in the mandis got soaked due to early morning showers adding to the woes of farmers, arhtiyas and traders. The rainfall reports from Chandigarh centre of the India Meteorological Department revealed that heavy rains were reported in different pockets of the state in the past 24 hours with the highest 80 mm of rain reported in Radaur of Yamunanagar district, 50 mm in Ambala, 40mm in Ratia of Fatehabad, 30mm in Babain and Shahbad of Kurukshetra district and 20mm in Ladwa, Jhansa and Ismailabad of Kurukshetra. According to the ...
Stubble Burning
Farmers caught burning stubble to be dealt with an iron fistedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Days before the Prime Minister Office’s October 14 review meeting on air pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR), Uttar Pradesh chief secretary (CS) Durga Shankar Mishra has issued a slew of directions to officials and asked them to strictly curb the incidents of stubble and garbage burning in the state. In a government order issued to all divisional commissioners, district magistrates and district police chiefs on Monday, the CS has asked the officials to ensure legal penal action is taken against farmers found burning crop residues, and also create awareness among them about the negative impact of stubble burning on the environment. “The chief secretary’s directions come only a few days before the ...