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Gujarat opens registration for kharif crops procurement
The Gujarat government has began registration system for procurement of kharif pulses crops in the Point out. Point out-operate Gujarat Point out Civil Provides Company Ltd will carry out the procurement functions beneath the minimum guidance selling price (MSP) for kharif crops of moong (inexperienced gram), urad (black matpe) and soyabean. The on the web registration is on till October 31. Notably, Gujarat has witnessed large sowing for the pulses and soyabean. Point out agriculture office data present moong acreage at ninety nine,054 hectares — about 18 per cent bigger than a few-yr regular of 83,529 ha, while urad sowing is up by fifty seven per cent to one,fifty four,749…
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Area under kharif crops slips further as rainfall deficit tops 10%
With rain deficit topping 10 for each cent from June one until Friday in the present monsoon time, the protection of kharif crops dropped further more by one.seventy six for each cent cent in comparison with the corresponding period of time a 12 months back. Farmers have so considerably planted on one,064 lakh hectares (lh) from one,083 lh in the very same period of time a 12 months back. Previous week, this hole in acreage was one.56 for each cent. The region underneath rice, oilseeds, cotton and coarse cereals has dropped, when sowing of pulses and sugarcane are up. Among oilseeds, the protection of soyabean has enhanced but that…
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With India reducing tur imports, Myanmar farmers switch crops to catch Chinese bus
With India limiting its imports of tur from Myanmar, farmers in the neighbouring countries are rapidly replacing tur with other crops these types of as sesame, maize and cotton, for which there is a all set current market in China and other countries close by, in accordance to authorities. “From a complete of 3,00,000 tonnes in 2015, tur production in Myanmar has fallen to eighty,000 tonnes this 12 months. As the farmers are not guaranteed of India’s specifications of volumes up to two,fifty,000 tonnes, which was ordinary previously, they are shifting away to other crops,” said Vatsal Lilani, Managing Director of Evertop Commodities Pte Ltd. Lilani was amid trade authorities…
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What purpose MSP for crops?
That the announcement of minimum support rate (MSP) for different crops has develop into a ritualistic workout around the many years has yet all over again been verified by the the latest Cabinet decision to hike the MSP for the 2021-22 Kharif season crops. The certain reason of the rate hikes and supposed results are not obvious. The aim of MSP ought to be to send a signal to growers that they take a simply call on what crop to mature, assure them of a minimum rate and motivate a shift from one particular crop to yet another where by wanted. In India, agriculture is issue to various hazards. Crop…
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Barring rice and wheat, all rabi crops harvested
Harvesting of most rabi crops, barring wheat and rice, has been done throughout the region. The wheat harvest is expected to be around in most States by the close of the month, an official statement mentioned on Sunday. Though harvesting of pulses crops these kinds of as gram, lentil, urad, moong and other people, sown around 158.1 lakh hectares (lha) and that of rapeseed-mustard lined on 70 lha, is entirely around in most States other than Punjab, farmers have reaped 81.55 per cent of wheat sown around 315.eight lha. Nonetheless, Punjab has forty per cent of wheat to harvest, Haryana 35 per cent and Uttar Pradesh 20 per cent and…
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Summer crops area up 15% at 56 lakh hectares
Planting of summer months crops has picked up and the complete acreage jumped by 15 per cent to exceed 56 lakh hectares till March 26 in opposition to forty eight.82 lakh ha in the course of the exact interval a 12 months in the past, as per the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare’s hottest info. Paddy acreage went up to 36.87 lakh ha — an increase of sixteen per cent around exact interval a 12 months in the past, as farmers in states this sort of as West Bengal and Telangana planted more region under the cereal crop. The region under pulses greater to five.fifty three lakh ha…
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Crops grown on contaminated land co… – Information Centre – Research & Innovation
The world bioeconomy is increasing, but it must triumph over hurdles which include avoiding level of competition with land used for foodstuff manufacturing. An EU- and field-funded undertaking is exploring making use of contaminated and waste land for biocrops. © Springfield Gallery #23873684, supply:inventory.adobe.com 2020 By 2050, the world bioeconomy will demand up to 24 billion tonnes of biomass, but the sector must triumph over sizeable hurdles to access its entire prospective. These contain a deficiency of farmer confidence in the sector for biomass, a deficiency of offer of biomass to the field and the need to make certain that land for biomass crops does not contend with land used for…
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India’s area under kharif crops hits all-time high of over 108 mn hectares
Sowing of kharif crops touched an all-time superior location of 108.22 million hectares for the duration of the 7 days ended August 28, boosting hopes of a bumper harvest in excessive of 149 million tonnes for the duration of the year. The past all-time superior kharif acreage was in the kharif year of 2016, at 107.57 million hectares . A excellent kharif output could enable tame in general retail inflation in just the Reserve financial institution of India’s threshold band of 2-6 for every cent in the months to appear. Retail inflation considering the fact that April has been hovering at 7 for every cent mainly owing to superior meals…
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‘No-GM’ certificate mandatory for imported food crops from January
Occur January 1, 2021, importers of 24 important food items crops will have to mandatorily declare that the items are not genetically-modified and that they also have a non-GM origin. The Foodstuff Safety and Specifications Authority of India (FSSAI) has occur out with this purchase to assure that only non-GM food items crops occur into the state. The 24 food items crops incorporate apple, eggplant, maize, wheat, melon, pineapple, papaya, plum, potato, rice, soyabean, sugarbeet, sugarcane, tomato, sweet pepper, squash, flax seed, bean plum, and chicory. Environmental groups have been complaining that imported foods usually include genetically modified organisms (GMO). Stricter assessments at ports The FSSAI is in the…
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Desert locusts, fall army worm invade crops in north, central, western India
“This kharif year is a comprehensive washout,” declares Vijay Kishan, a farmer of Kudi village in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan. The continual onslaught of desert locusts swarms more than the past couple weeks has ravaged his early-stage bajra crop planted more than 25 bighas (about 15 acres). The pesky invaders from Iran and Balochistan have also significantly ruined his moong and guar fields. Kishan says the cotton crop, which was planted early in Could on about 5-six bighas, is his only hope now as the matured vegetation have withstood the locust attack to some extent. “I am hoping to get at the very least fifty percent of the anticipated cotton…