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Sustainable agriculture

Technology must be used with traditional knowledge

Bayer conducts first drone trial in agriculture in Hyderabad

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said: I'm really happy to learn that Bayer is organising a pilot project on the use of drones in agriculture"

India and US aim to expand farm trade, resolve market access issues

New Delhi and Washington have sparred over a range of issues including tariffs for over a year, hampering the prospects of concluding a bilateral trade package

Crops spread over 800,000 hectares damaged in flood-hit Andhra

Agriculture Minister K. Kannababu said a detailed crop enumeration will be done once the floods recede

Best of BS Opinion: The big shocks, a Pyrrhic victory for protesters & more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Monday

A Pyrrhic victory for protesters

PM's retreat on farm laws conceals what is actually going on

Future of farms

Govt must keep pushing farm reforms

Fencing farm risks

Ways must be explored to ensure reasonable returns

Unnati raises Rs 60 crore from 3 firms including Incofin Investment

Agritech startup Unnati on Wednesday said it has raised Rs 60 crore in Series A funding from Incofin Investment Management, NabVentures and Orios

Nurturing horticulture

Constraints in the sector must be addressed

India's price-fixing probe of global seed firms sparked by carrot farmers

This is the first time the complaint is coming into public view

Farmers will strengthen protests from November 27, warns Tikait

Farmer leaders and the Centre have held several rounds of talks but the impasse remains

Suicides by agri labourers up 18%; Kerala, Karnataka show maximum increase

Kerala, Karnataka, MP show maximum increase in 2020

Varun Gandhi posts video of crop fire, seeks agri policy rethink

BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday shared a video clip purportedly showing a man setting fire to a heap of paddy crop after his vain efforts to sell it, and sought a rethink of the agriculture policy. Gandhi shared the video of the man on Twitter. "Samodh Singh, a farmer of Uttar Pradesh, had been running around mandis for the last 15 days to sell his paddy crop. When paddy did not sell, he in frustration put fire to it himself. Where has this system brought the farmers? The need of the hour is to rethink our agriculture policy," he said. Without making a direct attack, the BJP leader has been critical of the government's handling of agri issues of late and has also sympathised with the farmers protesting against the three farm laws.

Monsoon 2021 expected to rescue India's agriculture in FY22

The recently-concluded normal monsoon season will provide a much-needed cushion to both India's agriculture and inflation in 2021-22, said India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) in a report.

Complex fertiliser crunch to stay if subsidy support isn't eased: Industry

Alternatively, non-DAP complex fertiliser makers will take a hit on their margins by not passing on the increased cost of production to the final consumer--the farmer

Crop fires take India's global contribution to GHG emissions to 12.2%

A latest data analysis has shown that compared to the previous three years, there has been an increase in emissions due to crop fires in 2019-2020 by 12.8 per cent

Digitisation of farm data needs awareness

Interestingly, the agriculture-related data of about 55 million farmers has already been digitised

Improving farm support

The sector needs a more focused approach

Wholesale prices fall as mandis prepare to welcome fresh kharif harvest

Arrivals have just begun, but data on initial weeks shows that prices have dropped after higher arrivals within no time. Now, the threat of heavy rainfall-led crop damage lingers