Media Monitor
Harvest Machine
Dismantling the barriersedit
Millennium Post – Online
Agricultural growth over the decades has caused enormous pressure on environmental health across the globe, particularly in South Asia. Prominent among the problems caused by it is crop residue burning. Burning of crop residue is a major reason for severe air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic plains. It has also contributed to global warming and climate change, and led to the loss of fertility of agricultural land. Besides carbon dioxide, crop residue burning also leads to the emission of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, methane and nitrous oxide gases and discharge of ash.
Paddy in India
Telangana govt sets up committee to boost paddy milling capacityedit
The New Indian Express – Online
With huge stocks of Kharif and Rabi paddy lying with millers due to insufficient milling capacity, the State government on Thursday constituted a committee to suggest measures to increase milling capacity and also auction the surplus paddy.
Stubble Burning
Dismantling the barriersedit
Millennium Post – Online
Agricultural growth over the decades has caused enormous pressure on environmental health across the globe, particularly in South Asia. Prominent among the problems caused by it is crop residue burning. Burning of crop residue is a major reason for severe air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic plains. It has also contributed to global warming and climate change, and led to the loss of fertility of agricultural land. Besides carbon dioxide, crop residue burning also leads to the emission of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, methane and nitrous oxide gases and discharge of ash.
Punjab vet varsity, Milkfed and NDDB to study impact of feeding paddy stubble silage to cattleedit
The Indian Express – Online
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), along with Milkfed Punjab and National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Anand, will conduct a collaborative study on the utilisation of paddy straw silage in the ration of dairy animals to overcome the problem of paddy straw burning in the state.
Tractor industry
Tractor sales grow in single digits in July and exports up sequentiallyedit
The Hindu Business Line – Online
Domestic tractor sales grew in single digits in July this year, but the monthly volumes were the lowest in the last seven months. Production in July was lower on a year-on-year and month-on-month basis. Exports exhibited some improvements on a month-on-month basis.