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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.
- Policy & trade, IndiaNCDC announces ₹10,000 crore scheme for agro cooperatives to set up health infra in rural areasThe National Cooperative Development Corporation has launched Ayushman Sahakar, offering ₹10,000 crore in term loans over five years for cooperatives to build rural healthcare facilities.
- Precision & digital, India8 best apps in India for DigiFarmingLists eight Android apps for Indian farmers, including Kisan Suvidha, IFFCO Kisan and Pusa Krishi, offering market prices, weather forecasts, scheme details and expert advice.
- Policy & trade, IndiaRBI provides support of Rs 50,000 crore to NABARD, NHB, SIDBIRBI announced Rs 50,000 crore of fresh liquidity support for 2021-22, including a Rs 25,000 crore facility for NABARD to support agriculture and the rural economy.
- Machinery, United KingdomThe heavyweight championship: John Deere X9 1100 vs Claas Lexion 8900Compares John Deere's X9 1100 and Claas's Lexion 8900 combines on power, threshing, cleaning, grain handling and automation, drawing on PAMI tests and UK operators.
- Soil, water & climate, GlobalGlobal agricultural productivity not growing as fast as food demand: reportThe 2021 GAP Report finds farm productivity growing 1.36% a year, short of the 1.73% needed to meet 2050 food and bioenergy demand, with climate change slowing growth.
- Policy & trade, Chhattisgarh141 farmers committed suicide in the past 10 months in ChhattisgarhChhattisgarh's agriculture minister told the Assembly that 141 farmers died by suicide between April 2020 and 1 February 2021, prompting opposition demands for a probe and compensation.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshAfter nine long years, farmers get their residential plots in NoidaNoida authority has allotted 644 residential plots by lucky draw to farmers whose land was acquired before 1997, nine years after the scheme was launched in 2011.
- Markets, IndiaExport of basmati rice to Belgium and the Netherlands on the riseIndia's basmati exports to Belgium rose 60% and those to the Netherlands almost doubled in the first eight months of the financial year, lifting prices for farmers in Punjab and Haryana.