Media Monitor
Technology in Agriculture
Tomar Advises Farmers to Use Technology to Ensure Good Production & Profitedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The agriculture minister while talking to the media said that farmers must use latest technology to increase their productivity and profit. Tomar lauded Haryana, claiming that it is a state that leads the nation in horticulture and crop output. In order to produce higher-quality produce today, farmers must cultivate new crops and use cutting-edge technologies. The fact that Haryana farmers and the Haryana government are utilizing such cutting-edge agricultural techniques, he continued, brings him immense pleasure. Tomar claimed that the Narendra Modi-led federal government is devoted to raising farmers’ incomes. Over the past eight years, the government has launched a number of initiatives, and the results are beginning to show.
Telangana innovator is on a mission to make lives of farmers easieredit
The New Indian Express – Online
Empathising with farmers’ sufferings due to the lack of suitable and affordable equipment in the Indian market, Kadavendi Mahipal Chary, a 42-year-old grassroots innovator and entrepreneur from Parkal is providing solutions with his innovations like mini-cultivator, mini-tractor, power weeder and hydraulic lifts. Chary says, “I couldn’t complete my 10th board exams and used to work as a bike mechanic. Later, I returned to my village and started cultivating my 2-acre land passed on to me by my father.”During that time, I didn’t have enough income to afford cows for ploughing or pay labourers. I started repairing tractors and gradually became proficient. In 2011, I started designing the mini-cultivator which replaces manpower and dependence ...
Stubble Burning
We are ignoring the simplest solution to the stubble burning problemedit
The Indian Express – Online
It’s that time of the year again when the air quality in Delhi-NCR and surrounding areas worsens to the ‘severe’ category. Starting from mid-October, the air in the region becomes so hazardous that it seems like a deadly gas chamber. All the government agencies, like the Central Pollution Control Board, Commission for Air Quality Management, System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), all the laws and measures taken and all the governments — central and of the states of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh — who are responsible for monitoring, management and control of the situation, have failed to curb this pollution for almost a decade now. The front pages ...