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Agriculture Industry
Income deficiency: 68% of marginal farmers also engaged in non-farming activitiesedit
The Financial Express – Online
More than 68% of marginal farmers are engaged in non-farming activities such as daily wager labour activities, especially in construction of roads and houses, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to supplement their income from crop cultivation, according to a survey on the state of marginal farmers in India. The survey conducted across 20 states, including Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, has estimated the average landholding of marginal farmers at 1.22 acres.
Majority marginal farmers don’t want to leave agriculture: Studyedit
Teleangana Today – Online
Around 70 percent of over 6,000 marginal farmers engage in non-farm activities for income support, but 84 percent of them do not want to sell off their land to pursue other economic activities, a new study has found. According to the study conducted by the Development Intelligence Unit (DIU), a collaborative venture between Transforming Rural India Foundation and Sambodhi, marginal farmers are largely engaged in non-agricultural activities like wage labour and livestock management to supplement their income.
CLAAS Global Mentions
Pulling power: Tractor sales reap £25m hauledit
Business Weekly – Online
Cheffins, which conducts the largest monthly sale of tractors and agricultural machinery in the world, has announced returns of over £25 million in Q1 2023 across both the firm’s Cambridge monthly auctions and on-site sales. The figure more than doubles the total sold in Q1 2022 – £12.4m across 14 sales. At the Cambridge monthly machinery sale, the three auctions in January, February and March grossed over £11.2m, representing an uplift of 20.5 per cent against sales in Q1 2022, which achieved £9.29m. Overseas purchases made up circa 35 per cent of buyers at each of the sales, with top countries for export including Ireland, Romania, Sudan, Lithuania and Poland.
Paddy in India
A great opportunity to usher a digital revolution in agriculture during Amrit Kaaledit
The Times of India – Online
The Amrit Kaal is going to be a transformative phase of Indian agriculture. The consistent focus on digitization of farming in sync with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to empower our Annadatas will not only revolutionize the Indian agriculture during the next 25 years by easing the drudgery of our farmers, but also open up newer vistas of opportunities for rural youth and farm workers. The Centre’s plan to build a digital public infrastructure for the agriculture sector is certain to be a game changer. This will work as an open-source digital public good that will support the growth of the agri tech industry and startups.