Media Monitor
Dairy Farming
AniMeta AgriTech improves the dairy farming community through its digital solutions.edit
Listed among seven in-revenue start-ups in agriculture and allied livelihoods under Cisco and Social Alpha’s Krishi Mangal second edition cohort, AniMeta AgriTech was selected due to its unique appeal. Cisco’s Krishi Mangal is a scale-up accelerator program which supports agritech start-ups to design solutions for and support smallholder farmers and was launched in 2021.
Govt. Policies
Nitish Kumar invites President Droupadi Murmu to launch fourth agriculture road map for Biharedit
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said President Droupadi Murmu had been invited to launch the fourth agriculture road map for Bihar.
He also dared the BJP to break his Janata Dal United (JDU), instead of just making statements that it was disintegrating.
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Silage
Claas Jag 980 a success but silage lurches from perfect to painfuledit
It has been a harvest season of extremes for East Kilbride contractor Jim Watt, with a stonking first cut of silage preceding a stinking second.
But the decision to replace two Claas Jaguars, a 970 and 840, with a single 980 proved a shrewd move as the grass crops got heavier and the conditions more challenging.
Stubble Burning
Punjab sees 66% jump in farm fires than last: Dataedit
Punjab witnessed another 119 incidents of stubble burning on Monday, taking the total count to 456 as compared to 275 in the corresponding period last year.
Delhi government has done well to prepare for pollution. It needs to frame long-term solutionsedit
The Delhi government claims a 40 per cent reduction in pollution over the last nine years. But the fact also is that the plans have been found wanting several times in this period when meteorological conditions turn unfavourable.
Tractor industry
Escorts Sept sales: Tractor sales down 11.2%; construction machine sales upedit
Escorts Kubota Limited reported an 11.2 per cent decline in its tractor sales for September 2023 compared with the same period last year. The company sold 10,114 units of tractors in September 2023, whereas the number stood at 11,384 in September 2022. Exports of tractors also took a hit, declining 11.9 per cent as the export volume dropped from 848 units in September 2022 to 747 units in September 2023.