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India, Machinery - Pre-harvesting, Machinery – Post-harvesting, North America

Could hit a value of USD 46.8 billion in 2020

There has been an increase in the adoption of renting farm equipment across the world because of crucial aspects of upsurge in global population and a simultaneous shortage of skilled labor.

An increased reliance on technological advancements made in mechanization and massive increase in demand for food grain products have also contributed to the shift towards renting farm equipment.

Globally, the farm equipment rental market is projected to account for a value of USD 46.8 billion in 2020 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2020, to reach a value of USD 66.4 billion by 2025.

Governments, worldwide, are indirectly helping the farm equipment rental market by providing subsidies for the equipment. Leading farming equipment manufacturers who have forayed into the rental space include Mahindra & Mahindra (India), Escorts Ltd (India), JCB (UK), John Deere (US), CNH Industrial (UK), Kubota Corporation (Japan), AGCO Corporation (US).

Tractors, harvesters, sprayers and balers are some of the primary farm equipment rented from these leading agri-machinery manufacturers.

 

Could hit a value of USD 46.8

India, Machinery - Pre-harvesting, Machinery – Post-harvesting

Kubota and Escorts to hold 60% and 40% partnership in KAI

The acquisition (i) in Escorts Limited (Escorts) by Kubota Corporation (Kubota) and (ii) in Kubota Agricultural Machinery India Private Limited (KAI) by Escorts under Section 31(1) of the Competition Act, 2002 has been approved by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).

This will lead to the acquisition of 10 percent of the total issued, subscribed and paid-up share capital of Escorts by Kubota after Escorts completes it’s capital reduction process.

According to the deal, Kubota and Escorts will hold 60 percent and 40 percent shares respectively in KAI.

Kubota is a Japan incorporated agriculture product manufacturing company and offers various machinery that includes tractors, combine harvesters and rice transplanters.

Escorts is incorporated in India as a public limited company and sells agri-machinery and construction and railway equipment in India.

 

 

Kubota and Escorts to hold 60% and

Agrotech, E-commerce, North America, R&D

The platform delivers real-time pest mapping and predictive forecasts of diamondback moth populations in brassica crops 

FMC Corporation has partnered with Nutrien Ag Solutions on a pilot program to use the new FMC Arc™ farm intelligence platform. This platform delivers real-time pest mapping and predictive forecasts of diamondback moth populations in brassica crops to Nutrien Ag Solutions pest control advisors (PCAs) in the Salinas Valley of California. Crops being monitored include Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower.

The diamondback moth is one of the most prolific pests on brassica crops throughout the world with an estimated annual economic impact exceeding $4 billion.

“We are excited to collaborate with Nutrien Ag Solutions to bring the power of FMC’s Arc farm intelligence platform to brassica crops,” said Ronaldo Pereira, president FMC Americas Region. “This unique technology will enhance the ability of Nutrien Ag Solutions representatives to help growers better manage destructive diamondback moths through an integrated pest management strategy.” 

The pilot program launched in late May 2020 and will run through mid-September 2020, the peak season for diamondback moths. Nutrien Ag Solutions PCAs and scouts will be actively monitoring insect traps throughout the Salinas Valley while FMC Arc farm intelligence will visualize that data as detailed maps on a proprietary mobile app. This functionality helps PCAs and growers easily track the progression of pest pressure and, ultimately, predict it. The highly visual and accessible pest information will help Nutrien Ag Solutions PCAs be more efficient and effective in scouting and delivering pest management recommendations to growers than in the past. FMC plans to refine and validate an advanced pest prediction model for diamondback moths based on current and historical data.

“As we continue to evolve our digital platform for our customers and employees, we’re committed to partnerships that enhance our digital agronomy offerings and simplify the experience for our growers,” says Sol Goldfarb, vice president of digital strategy at Nutrien Ag Solutions. 

Arc Farm Intelligence Platform

Arc farm intelligence is the first mobile platform to use predictive modeling based on real-time data to ensure the right crop protection products are applied precisely where and when they are needed to improve sustainability, optimize crop yields and enhance grower return on investment.

The innovative platform offers a full suite of features, including customized alerts through a mobile app to indicate when action is needed in a field, two-way communication between the user and the FMC technical services team, reliable data and high-quality graphics, including graphs and heat maps. Arc farm intelligence has been engineered with open APIs and can easily be plugged into existing digital ecosystems.

 

The platform delivers real-time pest mapping and

Agrotech, Organic

Dr B N Murthy was addressing the webinar ‘Can Vegetable Farming Help Fight Climate Change? Strategies and Way Forward’ organized by FICCI and East West Seed India 

 

 

Dr B N S Murthy, Horticulture Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt of India, said that we need to go for diversification and adopt technology for vegetable farming to mitigate the issue of climate change. He added that the public and private sectors are partnering for the cause and are working diligently towards augmenting the agricultural produce and doubling farmers’ income as envisioned by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Dr Murthy added that the government is working on various programmes to mitigate the challenges of climate change. Two programmes will be announced in the coming months that will enable vegetable farming. Processing clusters are also being developed and contract farming is being promoted by the government. 

Dr Naveen Kumar Patle, Deputy Commissioner Horticulture and Director, Central Institute of Horticulture, Nagaland, and Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare said that the government is promoting farming of perennial vegetables and agroforestry. He added that the Rastriya Krishi Vikasa Yojana is demonstrating the benefit of integration of different agriculture practices for increased vegetable farming and reducing the gap between demand and supply of vegetables to achieve self-sufficiency. 

 Dilip Rajan, Managing Director, East-West Seed India said that agriculture may be the sole bright spot in the overall gloomy economic outlook due to COVID-19. Vegetable farming offers better economic returns for smallholder farmers, enhances the health and nutrition of consumers while reviving our stalled economy. Vegetable farming can help fight climate change by reducing tillage, expanding crop rotations, cover crops, and re-integrating livestock into crop production systems.

Dr Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair, Regional Director, World Vegetable Center, South and Central Asia said that the need is to promote climate-smart seed and climate-smart crop management practices and cropping seeds. Also, climate-smart post-harvest practices and circularity should be adopted. He added that going forward there is a need to diversify the crop portfolio, adopt good crop rotations, build soil organic matter, reduce the use of plastics, increase water-use efficiency and reduce post-harvest losses. 

Speaking on the strategy for prosperity of vegetable farming, Dr Malavika Dadlani, President, Indian Society of Seed Technology said that there is a need for inclusive and liberal policy and partnerships need to be based on trust and transparency. She added that there is a need to promote ‘India Abroad’ and introduce indigenous vegetables with high nutritive, therapeutic and medicinal vales as COVID-19 has established their health benefits. 

 Ram Kaundinya, Head, Agriculture Committee FICCI Telangana State Council and Director-General, FSII said that climate change is real. Environmental temperatures are expected to rise and we need climate-resilient agriculture to fight climate change. We need crop varieties that will use natural resources more efficiently. He added that not only will the demand for vegetables rise due to improved living standards, but vegetables should also provide an opportunity for more environmentally friendly agriculture both in protected cultivation and open cultivation.

 

 

 

Dr B N Murthy was addressing the

Cold Storage, Logistics, Warehousing

Aims at doubling agricultural exports by 2024-25

A new African Centre of Excellence for sustainable cooling and cold chain based in Kigali will help get farmers’ produce to market quickly and efficiently thereby creating jobs, reducing food waste and increasing profits. It has been inspired by the University of Rwanda’s existing Africa Centre of Excellence of Energy for Sustainable Development.

The centre is conducting feasibility studies to link the country’s farmers, logistics providers and agri-food businesses with a range of experts and investors. Rwanda’s Cooling Initiative (RCOOL) is supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) through its United for Efficiency (U4E) programme.

RCOOL will receive greater expertise of researchers from the University of Birmingham and Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University who are joining RCOOL to work on rural cooling which can be used for food and medicines.

According to Lord Goldsmith, UK Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment, sustainable cooling can improve food security, reduce food waste, protect vital vaccines and reduce emissions of climate-damaging refrigerant gases.

The project supports Rwanda’s National Agricultural Export Development Board’s (NAEB) five-year strategy to double agricultural exports by 2024-25.

 

Aims at doubling agricultural exports by 2024-25A

Agrotech, R&D, Start ups

Startups to bridge technology gap for farmer collectives

Eight startups incubated at the Agri-Business Incubator (ABI) and the iHub at ICRISAT have demonstrated technology-backed solutions for Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) management systems.

It includes last-mile digital learning and extension services, personalized crop advisories and management, agribusiness convergence platforms, on-demand farm machinery and service management, optimized fertilizer application units to reduce input costs and impact on the environment.

Deep learning solutions for quality check at farm-gate and low-cost community-owned post-harvest processing units for value addition are also being implemented. 68 participants including Chief Executive Officers of FPOs, agencies promoting FPOs, civil society organizations, banking institutions and corporate from 17 states of India were part of an online event where the technologies and business ideas were presented.

Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations (AGNIi) has been working diligently for bringing FPOs and technology startups together and providing institutional support.

Jonathan Philroy, Manager at ABI-ICRISAT said that FPOs and startups have gained a lot of attention, especially in the past few months for their potential to address smallholder farm challenges and spur rural economic growth. Another event with a second set of incubated startups is expected to be held later this year.

 

 

Startups to bridge technology gap for farmer

E-commerce, Seeds

 It aims to help progressive farmers get more than double yield to their crops

Bayer Crop Science Limited has introduced Spring hybrid Maize sowing in Jammu region, which is also a lucrative alternative to wheat crop, to help progressive farmers get more than double yield to their crops thus contributing their part towards Government’s mission of doubling farmer’s income by 2022.

Pertinently, there was no maize cropping during the spring season in Jammu region and the farmers mostly depended on wheat cultivation which was not that productive and profitable and also not feasible sometimes causing huge loss to the farmers.

With the efforts of Bayer Crop Science Limited’s Territory Business Manager, Kailash Pandey and the enthusiasm and a deep urge to grow among the farmers, this spring Maize sowing recorded tremendous response and yield as well from several parts of Jammu region. About 2 MT of Spring Corn Maize DEKALB 9108 had been sown only in two districts of Jammu and Samba where the farmers have got more than double crop yield besides huge financial benefits through selling of their green maize plants after harvesting of the crop. 

According to Kailash Pandey, Jammu region has abundant potential and scope as well for this Spring Maize cultivation and other hybrid cereal and vegetable seeds of the company which will not only multiply the production manifold but will certainly give a big fillip to agriculture profile of the region. 

He said that Maize is the third largest cereal crop in India after rice and wheat and its significance as a source of large number of industrial products besides its uses as human food and animal feed additionally make it an emerging cereal crop of increasing importance.

 It aims to help progressive farmers get

Agrotech, North America

Chitnis replaces Dr Scott Angle who accepted a position as VC at the University of Florida 

 

    

Prominent Indian-American scientist Dr Parag Chitnis has been appointed as the Acting Director of the prestigious National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), which drives all federally funded agricultural research in the US. 

Chitnis was named Associate Director for Programmes earlier this year and leads implementation of NIFA’s approximately $1.7 billion research projects. 

“Dr Chitnis brings more than 31 years of scientific research and experience to the Director’s office,” US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said while announcing the name of Chitnis as NIFA’s Acting Director.

Chitnis replaces Dr Scott Angle who accepted a position as Vice President of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Florida in Gainesville. 

“He (Chitnis) has been instrumental in providing steady leadership and support to NIFA during its transition to Kansas City last fall, in addition to playing a lead role on NIFA’s Project CAFÉ (Collaboratively Achieving Functional Excellence) initiative which aims to help NIFA maximize business operations to better serve its customers,” Perdue said. 

Chitnis did his BSc in botany/plant breeding from the Konkan Agricultural University in Maharashtra and an MSc in genetics/biochemistry from New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute. He did his PhD in biology from the University of California in Los Angeles.

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Chitnis replaces Dr Scott Angle who accepted

Acquaculture, Agro Universities

It will extend technical help to the farmers and fishers of the country during the lock down period. 

Dr Joykrushna Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries Science), ICAR launched a WhatsApp & E-Mail Helpline for the fish farmers of the country. (WhatsApp No. – 7790007797 & ask.cifa@icar.gov.in) on the occasion of the 20th National Fish Farmers’ Day celebrated by the ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha . Dra Jena outlined the technical help being extended by the Fisheries Institutes to the farmers and fishers of the country during the COVID-19 lockdown period. He also urged the scientists for reorienting the research strategies to come out with solutions for the farmers to mitigate the pandemic situation.

Dr. Saroj Kumar Swain, Director, ICAR-CIFA briefed about the Institute’s contributions in the freshwater aquaculture sector.

Dr. S.D. Tripathi, Former Director, ICAR-CIFA & Former Vice-Chancellor, ICAR-CIFE emphasized on the threat of invasive species in the Indian fisheries and aquaculture.

Dr. Sarangi, Former Director, ICAR-CIFA stressed on the need to create public awareness on the safety of the cultured fish during the COVID-19 period.

Around 10 Progressive Fish Farmers from different parts of the country along with the aquaculture experts from the Institute discussed the various problems being faced by the farmers. More than 200 participants virtually participated in the event.

It will extend technical help to the

Agro Universities

The MoU aims to enhance the soft skills of the students and competency of the faculties.

The ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad organized the “Virtual Signing Ceremony of Tripartite Memorandums of Understanding for establishment of Career Development Centres & Faculty Development Centres under the Component – 2 of the ICAR-National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP)”. 

Dr R C Agrawal, Deputy Director General (Agricultural Education) & National Director, ICAR-NAHEP emphasized on the necessity for establishing of 5 CDCs in Central Agricultural University, Imphal; SKNAU, Jobner; UBKV, Cooch Behar; SVVU, Tirupati; IGKV, Raipur and FDC at GBPUA&T, Pant Nagar with an objective to develop the overall personality of students based on national priorities and develop sustainable replicable model in the other Agricultural Universities. 

Dr Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director, ICAR-NAARM stressed that the CDCs & FDC are need of the hour for bringing a dynamic National Education System to address the challenges in Indian Agriculture, such as, processing, value-addition and employment. 

Dr Tauqueer Ahmad, Director, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi appreciated the ICAR-NAARM & ICAR-IASRI’s initiatives under the ICAR-NAHEP. 

The Vice-chancellors and Deans of the various Agricultural Universities accentuated that the centres will enhance the soft skills of the students and competency of the faculties. The Deans, Directors, Nodal Officers and other senior officials from the Agricultural Universities attended the ceremony through video conferencing.

The MoU aims to enhance the soft

Agro chems – Chemicals

It is priced competitively and enriched with skin friendly aloe vera extract

 Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited (RCF ) a PSU under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has launched ’RCF SAFEROLA’ a Iso Propyl Alcohol (IPA) Based hand sanitizer gel which also contains aloe vera extract and Vitamin E. 

RCF’s hand sanitizer comes in fresh lime fragrance and will be priced at Rs 25 and Rs 50 for 50 ml and 100 ml non-spill bottles. 

The PSU revealed that it will market it nationwide as a cheap and effective hand cleansing option to fight Covid-19 infections. 

 “It is RCF’s small contribution in the nation’s fight against the Coronavirus pandemic”, said S C Mudgerikar , CMD , RCF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is priced competitively and enriched with

Text Blog

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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that gaming is one of the most popular hobbies today. The iGaming industry has millions of fans all over the world and to keep them entertained it has to do a lot of work. Online gaming like NetBet India like  cater to a wide audience by offering something for everyone’s taste. Since it’s a casino site, casino enthusiasts can expect a range of table games at their disposal. The variants of poker, blackjack, roulette, and other popular games are coupled with bonuses and promotions to make things interesting.

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Popular Farm Themed Slot Games

Both the iGaming and the farming industry have been keeping up with tech trends. There are numerous examples of this and one of the most recent ones is in India. A supply chain called Ninjacart developed an app to bring consumers and farmers together. Harvest the Farms allows farmers to be in direct contact with farmers and order their products via the app.

Slot games make the most popular apps which is why the iGaming industry has a lot of them. In that regard here are some farm-themed slot games:

Wild Turkey

It’s obvious from the title that the turkey symbol is an important one in the game. In fact, it’s a wild symbol that works as a substitute for regular ones and helps you make winning combinations. It’s slot titles developed by NetEnt, a household name in the iGaming industry. It comes with 5 reels and 20 paylines as well as some other interesting features.

Tornado: Farm Escape

This video slot also comes with 5 reels and 20 paylines. It features farm animals such as sheep, chickens, and pigs as symbols on the reels. In addition to that, it has a Tornado feature triggered when the player gets a Hot and a Cold symbol on reels 1 and 5. The tornado collects all symbols and gives back cash prizes.

Triple Twister

Triple Twister is another interesting farm-themed slot. Players can see dogs, weather vanes, cows, farmers, and even a farmhouse on the reels. Unlike the other slot games on the list, it comes with 50 paylines. The twister symbol in the games acts as an expanding wild and when it triggers it can even substitute the scatter symbols.

Conclusion

Naturally, these are only a few of the many farm-themed slot games that any animal lover and farmer would enjoy. Since the online gaming market will grow substantially by 2024, there won’t be a shortage of slot games like these.

Why Is Farming a Popular Theme? The answer

Oilseeds, Seeds, Trade

Intacta RR2 PRO soy cultivation provides marked growth

According to a study published by Spark Inteligência Strategica, a leading Brazilian consultancy firm, soy producers’ investment in Brazil have boosted oilseeds output to around US$2.1 billion in 2019-20 which is a 7.5 percent increase from US$1.9 billion recorded in 2018-19.

The study titled ‘BIP Soja Sementes’ included data gathered from 3,500 growers and revealed a minor increase of around 2.4 percent in the total area under cultivation, from the previous 35.1 million hectares to 35.9 million/ha.  

An important data found from the study is the expansion of the cultivation of Intacta RR2 PRO varieties, which has more added value when compared to RR seeds. The survey found improvements in Intacta technology in the South and Cerrado, consolidating almost 75 percent of the soybean areas as against 65 percent in the 2018-19 cycle. In dollar value the total seed market increased by 3 percent from US$2.763 billion to $2.834 billion.

Around 42 percent of the properties visited by the researchers had 100 percent of the area cultivated with the Intacta varieties which led to them to conclude that the main attributes sought by farmers in relation to seeds are productivity, adaptability to the region and characteristics of the reproductive cycle.

Intacta RR2 PRO soy cultivation provides marked

Agro chems – Pesticides, North America, R&D

The innovation could help combat Citrus Greening disease

Invaio Sciences, Inc announced a new and exclusive world-wide license agreement with the University of California (UC-Riverside) for a novel technology developed by Professor Hailing Jin at the University of California Riverside.

The technology could help control the pathogen that causes HLB/Citrus Greening – a severe plant disease carried by an insect called the Asian citrus psyllid that has threatened the citrus industry by destroying millions of acres of citrus crops throughout the United States and abroad.

“The prospects of addressing this type of incurable devastating crop disease to help agricultural communities and improve the environmental impact of production is exciting and rewarding”, said Dr. Gerardo Ramos, Chief Science Officer at Invaio Science from his Basel, Switzerland office.

The innovation that Invaio will now license from UC Riverside harnesses naturally-occurring compounds called anti-microbial peptides produced naturally by citrus trees, that have been shown in extensive studies conducted by Dr. Jin, to kill the bacteria responsible for HLB in infected trees, and essentially “curing” infected trees.

Dr Jin, a professor of genetics, microbiology and plant pathology at UC Riverside, studies the molecular mechanisms of plant immunity and pathogen virulence, with the goal of developing effective and environmentally friendly strategies to control plant diseases and to ensure sufficient food production.

The innovation could help combat Citrus Greening