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Author: Maruine Jones
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Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Precision & digital, Rajasthan‘MooPay’: a direct payment platform for dairy farmers launched in RajasthanDairy-tech startup Stellapps has launched MooPay, an automated platform that lets dairies pay registered farmers directly into their savings accounts, starting in Bhilwara district.
- Policy & trade, PunjabHalt on train mobilisation in Punjab has led to a loss of Rs 21,000 crorePunjab's industries department estimated production and export losses of Rs 21,391 crore after goods trains were suspended from October 1 amid farmer protests against the farm laws.
- Precision & digital, IndiaAquaCRED, a financial risk estimation strategy for farmersAquaconnect has launched AquaCRED, which uses machine learning, satellite remote sensing and pond data to assess credit risk so lenders can offer formal loans to small fish and shrimp farmers.
- Inputs & crop science, GlobalThe role of technology in reducing pesticide useExplains how integrated pest management, precision agriculture, biological control, genetic modification and organic methods can reduce reliance on chemical pesticides.
- Markets, IndiaPotato prices at an all-time low of Rs 5-6/kg in both producing and consuming areasA good rabi harvest has pushed potato prices in India to Rs 5-6 a kg, with wholesale rates in 25 key producing areas 50% lower on March 20 than a year earlier.
- Policy & trade, United KingdomMPs and Lords write to British PM to talk to his Indian counterpart PM Modi over the farmers’ protestOver 100 UK MPs and Lords signed a cross-party letter, gathered by Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, asking Boris Johnson to raise the Indian farmers' protest with Prime Minister Modi.
- Inputs & crop science, GlobalCrop protection: how do pesticides kill bugs?Explains the main crop protection methods and how insecticides, fungicides and herbicides work, from attacking pests' nervous systems to stopping fungal cell division.
- Inputs & crop science, RussiaRussian agrochemical market becomes capriciousAn Argus analyst forecast that Russian ammonium nitrate output could reach 10 million tonnes by the end of 2020, while EuroChem reported rising sales of the carbamide-ammoniac compound.
- Inputs & crop science, GlobalAfrican swine fever shaking the agro worldAfrican swine fever, which has no treatment or vaccine, spread from Georgia into Europe and Asia and had halved China's pig herd by the end of 2019.
- Inputs & crop science, IndiaReduction in NP fertiliser price by Rs 50, now available at Rs 925/bag, by IFFCOIFFCO cut the maximum retail price of NP 20:20:0:13 fertiliser by Rs 50 to Rs 925 per 50 kg bag and reduced the price of sulphur by Rs 1,000 a tonne.