LEAF to bring in tech platform to connect with farmers
January 21, 2021
To cover 30 lakh farmers in 3 years
Integrated agri services provider Lawrencedale Agro Processing India (LEAF), based in Udhagamandalam, has announced expansion of its services by increasing the number of the farmers connected to 30 lakh from the present strength of 30,000 farmers in the next three years.
Besides, it is going to introduce a technology platform in a month or two, giving the farmers access to financial, insurance and extension services.
The firm works with small and marginal farmers in remote areas and helps them cut down cost of cultivation and save time by reducing the time to access inputs and other services. “In the next 15 months, we are going to rope in 10 lakh farmers. Besides strengthening our operations in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, we are going to expand to Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra,” Palat Vijayaraghavan, Founder and Chief Executive Offi
Robot to Measure Leaf Water Potential
Thursday Jan 21st, 2021
News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich.
The most accurate way for farmers to determine the water needs of a crop is to hand-pluck individual leaves from plants, put them in pressure chambers, and apply air pressure to see when water begins to leak from the leaf stems.
This is obviously a tedious process. But what if this could be outsourced to a robot?
That’s the question researchers are asking, including University of California, Riverside assistant professor Konstantinos Karydis.
Karydis… “We want a robot to go identify a leaf, pick a leaf, cut it, and then put it inside the customized automated pressure chamber, and make a measurement in situ about the water potential of that sample leaf. And the expectation is that eventually this would be a useful tool that can help speed up the process of sampling leaves, measuring their water potential, and makin
19 Jan 2021 - 8:20
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By Sanaullah Ataullah | The Peninsula
Doha: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) has planned to establish plant factories soon to ensure production of leafy vegetables round the year.
The plan is under MME’s food security strategy to increase self-sufficiency in fresh food production.
“The agricultural season in the country is limited to some months so the idea behind the plan is to provide leafy vegetables year-round with the help of proposed plant factories,” said Director of Agricultural Research Department at MME Hamad Saket Al Shammari during a Qatar TV programme.
He said the move of the MME is to involve private sector to make investment in agricultural sector to ensure food security.
Nearly 71% tea sold at coonoor auctions
January 18, 2021
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A new price record was set up by the bought leaf Factory, Homedale Tea Factory, at Sale No: 2 of the auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association.
“Our Red Dust grade, auctioned by Global Tea Brokers (GTB), topped the entire auctions when Badhusha Tea Co., bought it for ₹ 383 a kg”, Raman A Menon, Homedale’s Managing Partner told
BusinessLine.
“Consequently, we have broken our last week’s price record of ₹ 381. This is a new record as it is the highest price fetched by any of our teas since manufacturing started in our factory 72 years ago”, he said.
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