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Agriculture Industry
India to harvest record mustard crop in 2022-23, finds SEA’s crop surveyedit
The Economic Times – Online
India is heading for a record Rapeseed-Mustard crop of 115.25 lakh tones in 2022-23 as remunerative prices in the past year encourage record plantings of the oilseed. Conducive weather in most parts of the mustard growing states also aided the highest-ever production, said Solvent Extractor’s Association (SEA) in a release. SEA said that it had carried out a crop survey earlier this month.
Budget
Agriculture policy: Punjab govt open to ideas till March endedit
The Times of India – Online
The Punjab government has sought suggestions from the general public for the new agricultural policy being drafted to chalk out a roadmap for making farming a more profitable vocation. Agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said the policy would suggest ways to make farmers debt-free and teach them innovative techniques. For feedback, an interaction was organised with farmers, which was chaired by the chief minister, he said. The government had sought suggestions from the general public, especially the farmers, FPO groups, self-help groups, kisan associations and agro-industrial associations till March 31, to include the feedback in the agricultural policy, he said.
Competition
New Holland Agriculture opens hi-tech training facility in in Greater Noidaedit
ET Auto – Online
New Holland Agriculture, a brand of CNH Industrial, has opened a new training centre in Greater Noida to enhance the technical skills of employees, dealer teams and customers. The centre offers technical and commercial training for tractors, harvesters, and balers. Currently, it has a capacity to train 75 individuals at a time and will be soon increased to 90 trainees in the coming months, for various training programmes, the company said in a media release. The knowledge centre is equipped with a virtual reality (VR) space with the latest technology to train operators, as opposed to more traditional in field training, to provide a safe learning environment especially for new operators.
Govt. Policies
Agriculture Min ropes in Nafed for promotion of govt’s millets initiativeedit
Business Standard – Online
The Agriculture Ministry on Monday said it has roped in cooperative Nafed for promotion of the government’s millets initiative at global scale, including installation of millet vending machines and setting up of an experience centre in Delhi-NCR. Nafed, which has entered into a MoU with the ministry in this regard, will set up a millet corner in Nafed Bazaar Retail Stores, install millet vending machines across Delhi-NCR, an official statement said. It will also establish a millets’ experience centre at Delhi Haat, to promote nutritious millets and create awareness on the rich history of India through millet-based dishes. Nafed will extend marketing linkage to millets-centric startups, it added.
Paddy in India
Paddy procurement to continue till March 30edit
The Hans India – Online
District officials responded on the story published in The Hans India on Monday on the paddy farmers concern over the unseasonal rains. In a press release here on Monday, Joint Collector M Naveen and AP Civil Supplies Corporation (APCSC) district manager P Jayanthi assured that paddy procurement will be continued till March 30 to collect the remaining produce from the farmers. They further explained that so far 89 per cent of the paddy has been procured from farmers and sufficient space was available for storage of the paddy and procurement of paddy would continue in the district.
Uncategorized
Reviving plant science for agriculture in the era of climate changeedit
The Times of India – Online
Potatoes, vanilla, and avocados are only three of 10,967 species actively affected by climate change, figuring to IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. Modern farming methods can ensure that we don’t run out of potatoes or vanilla anytime soon, but it is going to become increasingly difficult for farmers to produce these crops “naturally”. Farming climate-sensitive crops demand more resources, and gradually lowers the nutritional quality of these crops over time. Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The past few decades have witnessed a stark rise in crop failure rates. On the other hand, the support ecosystem around climate risk is still nascent in most countries. The agriculture sector is in dire ...