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Competition
Tata AutoComp and Fortaco inaugurate advanced tractor cabin plant in Chakanedit
Tata AutoComp has inaugurated its new manufacturing facility for state-of-the-art cabins for tractors and off-highway equipment at Chakan, Pune. The two companies had partnered for this project in June 2019. These cabins are developed in collaboration with Fortaco, the globally renowned design engineering and manufacturing solutions provider and the leading European strategic partner to the heavy off-highway equipment. The new facility promises to revolutionise the agricultural industry by offering safe, advanced, ergonomic and innovative cabin solutions for tractors.
Paddy in India
Ideal wheat sowing period over, Punjab covers half of target areaedit
Racing against time, farmers in Punjab have completed wheat sowing in 55 per cent of the targeted 35 lakh hectares for the 2023-24 Rabi season. As of Tuesday, reports indicate that farmers had covered 19.47 lakh hectares and it is expected that the remainder will be covered in a week, coinciding with the ongoing paddy harvesting, which is left on around 7 per cent area.
Stubble Burning
To curb stubble burning cases, 17 lakh bio-decomposers to be givenedit
In a bid to curb incidents of stubble burning, the state government has set a target of distributing 17 lakh bio-decomposers in 2023-24 fiscal. This will be more than 28% of 2022-23 when 13,22,250 bio-decomposers were distributed. According to a state government spokesperson around 1,66,600 bio-decomposers are in the process of being supplied to farmers in the ongoing financial year.
Haryana clocks 36% farm fires in 14 daysedit
Haryana saw 36% farm fires of the current paddy harvesting season in the last two weeks, according to official data. This year, about 36.57 lakh acre area was under paddy cultivation that was expected to generate over 73 lakh metric tonne (MT) straw. The agriculture department had planned to dispose of 31 lakh MT stubble (43%) with in-situ management (machinery/decomposer), while 25 lakh MT stubble (34%) was to be lifted by cow shelters for fodder. And near 17 lakh MT stubble (23%) was expected to be used in the industries via ex-situ management.