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Agriculture Industry
Niti Aayog Member Predicts India’s Potential to Become a Global Power in Agriculture Commodities Marketedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
On Saturday, Ramesh Chand, a Niti Aayog member said that India can emerge as a global power in the selected three or four agricultural yields if the government seeks modernization and motivates corporates to invest in agriculture. While ensuring food security and taking part in the panel session on ‘Can India be the food bowl for the World at the Food Conclave here, he spoke that to become a global leader, India could look at rice, milk, and sugar as commodities.
Technology in Agriculture
Flying tractors a window into future of farmingedit
The Economic Times – Online
Early one recent morning in Vidalia, Georgia, third-generation farmer Greg Morgan launched an AG-230 drone carrying eight gallons of fungicide over a field of sweet onions. The chemical, which is essential to crop survival in this humid state, would typically be dragged and dripped from a 500-gallon tank behind Morgan’s 10,000-pound tractor. Now it fell in a fine mist from the spray jets of an 80-pound drone scudding 10 feet above his cash crop. Vidalia Onions are a $150 million local industry that, like peaches, tomatoes and other specialty crops in the Southeast, have become increasingly vulnerable to climate change. Morgan has joined the vanguard of farmers who are turning away from tractors and ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Telangana farmers hit hard as rain continues to play havocedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The hailstorms that had battered the district in the last few days, left a trail of destruction in the district. The farmers’ morale lay broken as 20,000 quintals of paddy either got soaked or washed away at market yards even before the officials could procure it. The paddy crop in about 14,000 acres got submerged. The officials had estimated that the paddy, which was raised in 2.89 lakh acres, would give a yield of 7.23 lakh metric tonnes. Expecting five lakh metric tonnes of paddy, the district authorities have set up 302 IKP and PACS purchase centres for its procurement. Most of the farmers cultivated paddy under borewells which is the main reason ...