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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, GlobalAutomated farmingAutomation, robotics and data-driven smart farming can cut costs, spot pests earlier and save water, but need costly investment, use more energy and reduce farm jobs.
- Markets, IndiaNational Stock Exchange to launch first agricultural commodity futures contractThe National Stock Exchange will launch its first agricultural commodity futures contract, for crude degummed soybean oil, on December 1, with a trading size of 10 tonnes and Kandla as the price basis.
- Policy & trade, IndiaAgriculture and processing collab to strengthen India-US bond: Arkansas governorArkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson told an India-Arkansas webinar that collaboration in agriculture and food processing could strengthen ties between India and the US.
- Inputs & crop science, TelanganaHyderabad: Agriculture Minister lays foundation for tissue culture labTelangana agriculture minister S Niranjan Reddy laid the foundation for a Rs 4.2 crore public sector tissue culture lab at Jeedimetla to supply plants to farmers.
- Policy & trade, IndiaUnion ministry’s 16-point action plan to promote farm liberalisation and bring in development for the agriculture sectorThe budget's 16-point action plan for agriculture aims to liberalise the sector, and FSII's Shivendra Bajaj says the new farm laws free farmers to sell where they want.
- Precision & digital, GlobalAgtech for smallholder farmersExplains the problems smallholder farmers face in reaching markets, inputs, finance and know-how, and how digital tools and agtech could help.
- Precision & digital, IndiaVodafone India Foundation has collaborated with Nokia to deploy a smart agriculture solutionVodafone Idea's CSR arm, Vodafone India Foundation, and Nokia are deploying an IoT-based smart agriculture service for 50,000 farmers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
- Policy & trade, IndiaCorporate farming: misleading picture painted by the Indian governmentArgues that experience in the US, France and elsewhere shows corporate farming harms small farmers, and that India's new farm laws ignore those lessons.
- Soil, water & climate, GlobalImpact of soil erosion on agricultureExplains how water, wind, deforestation and grazing erode farmland, how erosion cuts productivity, and why permanent ground cover and crop residue help control it.
- Policy & trade, IndiaGovernment agrees to extend relaxed norms for onion import till JanuaryThe agriculture ministry has extended relaxed fumigation and phytosanitary certificate rules for onion imports to January 2021 to raise domestic supply and check retail prices.