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Agriculture Industry
Action plan to provide farmers seed minikits gets Cabinet nodedit
The Indian Express – Online
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Thursday approved an action plan to distribute seed minikits containing seeds of lentils and gram to help out farmers whose crops were destroyed due to delayed monsoon and the excessive rain that lashed the state recently. The Cabinet also approved a proposal to set aside a corpus of Rs 32 crore for the plan under the category of subsidy for certified seeds. According to the approved plan, the government will distribute 1 lakh seed minikits of gram (16 kg seeds per kit) and 1.5 lakh seed minikits of lentils (eight kg seeds per kit) among the farmers of the state. Government sources said under the scheme, 25 per cent ...
Many districts of Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal may go for early rabi plantingedit
The Economic Times – Online
Several districts in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal where sowing of kharif crops was less than 75% due to deficiency in rains during the monsoon season, are likely to go in for early rabi planting, said a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. “West Bengal has provided alternative seeds to over 1,00,000 farmers. Now the state would go for early rabi crops,” said the official, who did not want to be named.
Need To Transform Agriculture To Advanced Farming: Tomaredit
BW Disrupt – Online
The Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that there is a need to transform agriculture to advanced farming and maintain continuity as agriculture has such strength that India can easily overcome even adverse situations. While speaking at an Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) event, he said that the agriculture sector is the backbone of our country and our rural economy. Tomar said that the Indian agriculture sector has shown this during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Today we are in the first or second place in the world in terms of most of the agricultural produce. Despite this, there are some challenges for the agriculture sector,” he said. Tomar said that ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Big stubble, no trouble!edit
Rural News – Online
German manufacturer Claas has released the world’s first corn picker with an integrated stubble buster for one-pass harvesting and mulching. The Stubble Cracker was developed for the Claas Corio four, five, six and eight-row corn pickers. It features one rotating plate per row, each equipped with two specially developed mallets with a special coating, which crush and splice any stubble below the first internode. The unit is attached to the frame of the harvester via a threepoint linkage. This allows three-dimensional ground tracking, via a skid plate that ensures a constant distance between the flails and the ground in all operating conditions. This also helps optimise performance and reduce wear. Designed to be operated at ...
Govt. Policies
Centre announces rules for grant to establish paddy pellets plantedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The union environment ministry on Thursday released guidelines for grant of one-time financial support for establishment of pelletisation and torrefaction plants to promote utilisation of paddy stubble in thermal power plants and industries. The ministry has earmarked ₹50 crores for the scheme which is generated from the environment protection charge being collected by the Central Pollution Control Board following a 2016 SC order which directed that a charge of 1% of ex-showroom price be imposed on every diesel car with 2000 cc and above capacity in Delhi NCR. The 2016 SC order in MC Mehta Vs Union of India case said the tax will be deposited with CPCB as an ‘environment protection charge’ for causing ...
Paddy in India
Telangana govt to procure 1 crore tonnes paddy this Vaanakalam seasonedit
Telangana Today – Online
Telangana is expected to produce a massive 1.41 crore tonnes of paddy during the ensuing Vaanakalam (Kharif) crop season. Of this, the State government is making preparations to procure one crore tonnes from farmers. Powered By At review meeting on the preparations to procure paddy in Vaanakalam 2022-23 here on Thursday, Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar directed the officials to ensure paddy procurement from farmers in a planned and phased manner. He said Telangana had set a new precedent in paddy cultivation by increasing the production from 24 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 to 1.41 crore tonnes in 2022-23 in Telangana, after the State formation. He attributed it to the visionary leadership of Chief Minister K ...
Haryana likely to achieve 55 lakh MT paddy procurement target: agri deptedit
Hindustan Times – Online
The Haryana government is likely to achieve the target of procuring 55 lakh MT of paddy on minimum support price (MSP) despite yield loss due to unseasonal rains and dwarfing disease, the state agriculture department has claimed, amid talks that arrival of rice from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh could help the procurement agencies to accomplish the number. Earlier, the state agriculture department had predicted an overall loss of 20 per cent in paddy production in the state as, according to the official figures, rains had affected around 11 lakh acres of the total 34.5 lakh acres under paddy in the state. Even farmers in the state have been claiming that unseasonal rains have caused yield loss ...
Stubble Burning
Govt has taken steps to tackle stubble burning: Bhupender Yadavedit
Livemint – Online
Government has taken various steps to tackle the issue of stubble burning and a large quantity of paddy straw is being managed through in-situ and ex-situ management options, said Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav on Thursday. Addressing a workshop to start an initiative to tackle stubble burning, the minister said that statutory directions have been issued to thermal power plants to co-fire biomass-based Pellets, Torrefied Pellets/Briquettes (with focus on paddy straw) with Coal (up to 5-10%) and to industries operating in NCR other than GNCT of Delhi to switch over to PNG or biomass fuels during 2022. “These have led to a large demand for biomass-based pellets, though supply is on ...