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Agro Universities, Live Stock

GADVASU organised a one-week training programme on Scientific Pig Farming for SC farmers of Punjab under the scheme RKVY-12-B.

The Department of Livestock Production Management, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana has recently organised a one-week training programme on Scientific Pig Farming for SC beneficiaries/farmers of Punjab under the scheme RKVY-12-B.

Dr Kulvinder Singh Sandhu, Dr Daljeet Kaur, and Dr Subhash Chandra coordinated the training under the leadership of Dr Yashpal Singh, course director and head of the department. Ten trainees participated in the training programme and attained knowledge on the various aspects of scientific pig farming like breeds and its selection, feeding, housing, clean meat production, vaccination protocols, disease prevention and economics of pig farming.

Practical exposure on scientific managemental practices like handling, recording of temperature, record keeping and needle teeth cutting was given to the trainees. Dr Parkash Singh Brar, Director Extension Education was the chief guest and distributed the certificates to the trainees. Dr Brar informed that a large population is still involved in unhygienic and low-profit unscientific pig farming, so there is a need to train the farmers to adopt scientific pig farming to increase their profit.

Commodities like 25 kg starter feed and university mineral mixture along with five-year Vigiyanak Pashu Palan subscription were distributed to encourage the trainees to shift to scientific pig farming practices.

GADVASU organised a one-week training programme on

Finance

The first tranche of $750M was raised in March and April 2021.

UPL Limited a global leader of crop protection products and sustainable agricultural solutions has announced, has raised a second tranche of $700 million sustainability linked loan (SLL) on December 31, 2021, with a reduction of interest cost by 35bps and an opportunity for a further reduction of 5bps on achievement of sustainability indicators agreed with the banks.

The first tranche of $750 million was raised in March and April 2021. Of the $1.45 billion, the debt maturity for $1.25 billion gets extended by two years to FY 2026 (against FY2024 earlier).

In 2021, the company was ranked as the highest performing top tier, global crop protection company amongst its peers by Sustainalytics for the second year running. UPL also recorded strong performances in the most recent Dow Jones Sustainability Index (61 per cent improvement on 2018 score) and FTSE Russell (68 per cent higher than industry average).

UPL is on a mission to re-imagine sustainability across everything it does – developing and distributing solutions that secure our future whilst safeguarding the environment.

The first tranche of $750M was raised

Agrotech, Finance

CNH Industrial is committed to delivering value to its shareholders and stakeholders

CNH Industrial officially commences 2022 trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the US and Borsa Italiana’s Euronext Milan in Italy as a fully focussed agriculture and construction player. As the parent company to globally respected agriculture and construction brands and the innovations and services that drive them, CNH Industrial is committed to delivering value to its shareholders and stakeholders.

The new beginning for the CNHI ticker is the result of a long-planned strategic operation to separate CNH Industrial’s ‘On’ and ‘Off’ Highway businesses. Since announcing the spin-off in 2019, management has worked to set up the new organisation and set out its long-term priorities. With the delivery of this milestone, the company looks forward to presenting its future direction at its Capital Markets Day on February 22, 2022. Details on this event and live stream will be forthcoming.

“Today we are excited to usher in the new CNH Industrial, the result of detailed strategic planning, hard work and boundless determination. I want to congratulate our entire team, and our Senior Leadership Team in particular, for driving this to completion and thank the Board of Directors for overseeing this operation to its successful conclusion. As a pure player in agriculture and construction, we will bring our undivided attention to bear on supporting our customers and dealers. This involves developing innovative products and processes to enhance productivity; accelerate profitable growth, and spearhead our ambitious ESG plans to ensure we act in full respect of people and the planet,” said Scott W Wine, CEO, CNH Industrial.

CNH Industrial is committed to delivering value

Supply Chain

Under the agreement, Nisun will provide Biandijin with procurement services for grain and oil products.

Nisun International Enterprise Development Group, a provider of innovative comprehensive solutions through an integration of technology, industry, and finance, has announced that it has signed a cooperative supply chain agreement with Henan Huangchuan Biandijin AGRI-FOOD (Biandijin). Under the agreement, Nisun will provide Biandijin with procurement services for grain and oil products, including rice, millet, mung bean, sesame and flour, among others.

Biandijin is a comprehensive grain processing enterprise that engages in the purchase, processing and sale of grain and oil products. It serves retail customers through grocery chains in Henan province and well-known domestic enterprises, such as Sanquan Food and Synear Food, through cooperation.

With the agriculture industry as one of its core service segments, Nisun implements a comprehensive digital management process from procurement, warehousing, logistics, sales to operations in providing solutions to the grain and oilseeds supply chain, a sub-sector of agri-food industry chain. Under the agreement, Nisun will leverage its advanced technology, equipped with risk control measures, to serve Biandijin with professional, high-quality, end-to-end supply chain products with a digitalised, networked and standardised operating model. Simultaneously, Nisun will help Biandijin address challenges attributable to increased demand for grain and oil products through centralised procurement. In addition, through Nisun’s systematic management and effective control over core points in supply chain, Biandijin will be able to further expand, enhance competitiveness and achieve sustainable growth.

Under the agreement, Nisun will provide Biandijin

Agro chems – Fertilizers, Agro Universities, Agrotech, R&D

Discussions were held on doubling farmers’ income in the country

Dr Ashok Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General (Agricultural Extension), ICAR recently inaugurated the administrative building and farmers’ hostel of KVK, Dahigaon, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. In his inaugural speech, Dr Singh highlighted the KVK’s efforts for doubling the farmers’ income in the country. The DDG stated that the introduction of additional enterprises like poultry farming; goat rearing, horticulture nursery and mushroom cultivation, etc., will help in doubling the farmers’ income.

The Government of India’s focus on natural farming and organic farming by the use of bio-fertilisers, bio-pesticides and judicious use of chemical fertilisers was underlined by Dr Singh. The Deputy Director-General stressed linking the farmers with markets through the Farmers’ Producers’ Organizations (FPOs), crop residue management, conservation agriculture, reducing the cost of cultivation, processing and value addition.

Dr Narendra Ghule Patil, President, Marutrao Ghule Patil Shikshan Sanstha highlighted the challenges and opportunities in front of farmers and the role of KVK in resolving them more strategically.

In his address, Dr Lakhan Singh, Director, ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra applauded the KVK’s work, especially, the large scale adoption of BDN-711 (Pigeon Pea), Phule Vikram (Chickpea), Phule Samadhan (Wheat), Sugarcane Nursery and Climate-Resilient Technologies.

The senior officials of the State Department of Maharashtra along with ICAR Institutes, State Agricultural Universities and more than 200 farmers and extension functionaries participated in the event.

Discussions were held on doubling farmers’ income

Agro Universities, Agrotech

The newly-created facility would help in training and demonstration of the new weed management technologies

A Farmer’s Sabhagar was recently inaugurated at the Directorate’s Farm area in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Dr Panjab Singh, Former Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR), said, “The newly-created facility would help in training and demonstration of the new weed management technologies developed by the ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh to the farmers and other stakeholders.”

Singh also visited the field experiments and laboratory facilities at the Directorate.

While interacting with the scientists and other staff members, Dr Singh appreciated the directorate’s achievements made on the various aspects of weed management. The unparalleled growth in agricultural production, despite the COVID-19, that not only made the country self-sufficient in food grain but also enabled it to provide free ration to the rural poor was highlighted by Dr Singh.

The newly-created facility would help in training