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Agriculture Industry
India to divert land from paddy to maize to boost ethanol production, optimise water usageedit
CNBC TV18 – Online
India is looking to divert arable land from the farming of water-guzzling paddy to the cultivation of maize to boost ethanol production as well as optimise water usage. Emphasising the use of eco-friendly ethanol as a fuel, Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal said that ethanol blending has more than doubled in the past two years and the target of 20 percent ethanol blending has also been advanced from 2030 to 2025.
CLAAS Global Mentions
Claas FarmPoint Announces Expansion Plans for Second Locationedit
Farm Equipment – Online
Claas FarmPoint wasted little time after announcing their new plans in Kentucky and southern Indiana and now are releasing expansion plans for the remainder of Indiana. The new Claas equipment dealership, which will open its first location in Madisonville, Kentucky, this June, already has plans for the second location. According to Head of Commercial Development, Patricio Frangella, work will begin on a second location in Indiana to better support the needs of Claas customers in that state. Currently, MacAllister Machinery Company serves as the Claas combine dealer in the state of Indiana. Starting in June 2023, farmers in the area can choose between Claas FarmPoint and MacAllister Machinery ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Crops in 5 lakh acres damaged due to unseasonal rains in Telanganaedit
Deccan Chronicle – Online
Unseasonal rains and hailstorms in several districts in the last one week damaged crops over nearly 5 lakh acres, as per preliminary estimates submitted by district collectors to the state government. Undivided Warangal, Nalgonda, Medak and Karimnagar districts bore the brunt of the rain. The rain also damaged paddy stocks lying in government procurement centres due to lack of tarpaulin covers in market yards. Farmers on Tuesday held protests in several parts on the state demanding that the government purchase the rain-drenched paddy. Meanwhile, farmers in undivided Khammam, Karimangar and Warangal districts expressed anger at not receiving the Rs 10,000 per acre compensation announced ...
Paddy in India
Will procure every grain of damaged paddy: KCR to Telangana farmersedit
Siasat – Online
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao assured the peasant families that the state government will procure every grain of the damaged paddy due to untimely rains. KCR appealed to the farmers not to worry about the Paddy which got wet due to rains. He made it clear that the state government will pay an equal price to the damaged paddy as paid for normal paddy during the procurement. The Chief Minister reiterated that the Telangana government’s aim is to protect agriculture and ‘rescue the farmers’ from their hardships’.