Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Agri trade on e-platform up a third to Rs 75k cr in FY23edit
The Financial Express – Online
With more farmers, traders and farmers producers organisations (FPOS) starting to use the electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM), which digitally integrates wholesale markets, the turnover of the e-NAM trade rose by 32% to Rs 74,656 crore in 2022-23 compared to the previous fiscal. Officials said that after seven years since the launch e-NAM platform, farmers and buyers are increasingly using it for trade both within and outside the states. The turnover on the platform is expected to cross Rs 1 trillion in the current fiscal.
Sustainable Livestock Production: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Animal Agricultureedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Since the start of civilization and the domestication of animals, livestock has provided crucial contributions to human well-being in social and economic terms. Livestock systems have drastically evolved over centuries to meet the growing population’s needs. However, in light of global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and the urgency of ensuring the availability of nutritious and secure food for everybody, optimization of sustainable livestock production is the need of the hour.
Dairy Farming
Dairy sector has a special role in making women self-reliant: President Murmuedit
The Print – Online
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said the dairy sector has a special role in making women self-reliant and changing their social and economic status. Addressing the convocation function of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR-NDRI) here, Murmu said women have over 70 per cent participation in the dairy sector and should be provided easy loans and market access to set up new ventures. Murmu said women power plays an important role in the dairy industry in India.
Technology in Agriculture
Agritech widening the bottlenecks of farm-to-fork supply chainsedit
The Times of India – Online
Early in the morning, with the hustle and bustle of packing breakfast in the background, as you open the newspaper, you face bold and vivid headlines stating that AgriTech is the future, transforming farms across the globe. As one takes a moment to partake in their breakfast, it is natural to ponder the daunting challenge that the Indian agricultural industry will have to take on, transforming a burgeoning population of approximately 1.42 billion people, out of which 58% are dependent on agriculture. Clearly, our future is entwined with how much agriculture grows in the coming times and how many natural resources like water the segment consumes.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Agriculture crops badly hit due to unseasonal rains in Telanganaedit
The Hans India – Online
Agriculture crops in some districts of Telangana were damaged due to unseasonal rains and hailstorms during the last two days. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday directed the officials to take up assessment of damages caused to the crops. In the wake of crop damages due to untimely rains in Choppadandi and Karimnagar rural mandal of Karimnagar district and other parts of the state, the Chief Minister directed Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari to take up the assessment of crop damages. He asked the Chief Secretary speak to District Collectors and get detailed reports on crop damages.