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Farming of nutritious millets gets state boostedit
The Times of India – Online
Even as the millet’s stature rises in the realm of superfoods, Goa’s agriculture department is all set to reclaim the state’s forgotten millets — finger tail (nachni) and foxtail (vari). While cultivation of these millets was around 100 hectares three decades ago, it’s now just around 20 hectares. While the millet was never widely grown in Goa, the tiny grain gradually lost ground to paddy, as the support price and comparatively bigger yields made farmers choose the latter. “Though millets have a higher nutritive value, most farmers shifted to paddy cultivation with the government giving more weightage and support for paddy,” said director of agriculture Nevil Alphonso.
Government Expects Record Foodgrain Production of 3235.54 Lakh Tonnes in 2022-24edit
Krishi Jagran – Online
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in India has released its second advance estimate of the production of major crops, predicting a record foodgrain production of 3235.54 Lakh Tonnes in the 2022-24 period. This production includes rice, wheat, and maize, as well as pulses such as gram, moong, and winter crop mustard and sugarcane. The predicted increase in production is attributed to the hard work of farmers and scientists, as well as concerted government policies. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has credited the government’s efforts towards increasing agricultural productivity and supporting farmers for the expected record production.
G-20 members stressed on increasing climate finance to help farmers take up adaptation measures, says Agriculture Secyedit
The Economic Times – Online
The G-20 members stressed on the need to increase climate finance to help farmers take up adaptation measures in order to mitigate the climate change impact on the farm sector, agriculture secretary Manoj Ahuja said on Wednesday. Addressing media on the concluding day of the G20 first Agriculture Deputies’ Meeting here, Ahuja said: “Climate finance was one of the issues which was discussed. The members felt that there was a need for an environment for increasing climate financing in terms of financing farmers for adaptation measures.” The member countries also suggested that farmers can be incentivised if they are adopting climate friendly farming or green agriculture. One of the ways was carbon credit, he ...
CLAAS Global Mentions
Claas builds 10,000th EQ stepless transmissionedit
Irish Farmers Journal – Online
Claas has recently turned out its 10,000th in-house-manufactured EQ stepless transmission, which it first introduced in 2015. The German manufacturer has been offering it as its CVT option since then, in its Arion 500 and Arion 600 Cmatic tractor series. The mechanical-hydraulic power-split transmission is characterised by its two mechanical driving ranges. The unit can be broken down into two sections. The first is the front housing which contains the mechanical side of the box, while the second is the hydrostatic module. All of the transmission is built in-house except for the housings. Two variations are offered – the EQ 200 and the EQ 220, with the latter used in the 660 Cmatic only. ...
Dairy Farming
Two lakh agriculture credit societies, fishery-dairy cooperatives to be set upedit
The Economic Times – Online
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of 2 lakh new primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) and dairy-fishery cooperatives in uncovered villages and panchayats over the next five years to strengthen cooperative movement in the country. At present, there are around 63,000 functional PACS out of nearly 99,000 PACS across the country. There are still 1.6 lakh panchayats without PACS and nearly 2 lakh panchayats without any dairy cooperative society. The ministry of cooperation has formulated a plan to establish viable PACS in each uncovered panchayat, viable dairy cooperatives in each uncovered panchayat/village and viable fishery cooperatives in each coastal panchayat/village as well as panchayat/ village having large water bodies, an official statement ...
Paddy in India
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University releases new paddy and other crop varietiesedit
The Times of India – Online
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) on Wednesday released some paddy and other crop varieties, including a new kavuni rice variety named Co-57 which can yield double the quantity compared to the one which is widely used by the farmers. Releasing the variety, TNAU vice-chancellor V Geethalakshmi said Co-57 variety is suitable for all the seasons since it is a photosensitive one. The variety’s yield is 4,600 kg per hectare, which is a 100% increase compared to the popular variety in use. It will be ready for harvest in 130-135 days. It is a more profitable variety for farmers, she said.