Hi, NewsWrap for June 11, 2022

11 June 2022: Agriculture Officials, Jet Fuel Prices, Farmers Movement, Fuel Prices, Jet Fuel Prices,

11 June 2022

  • Union Agriculture Minister: India is in a Good Position in terms of Agricultural Production

    Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Friday that India is in a very good position today in terms of agricultural production, with agricultural scientists playing an important role in addition to farmers and the government's farmer-friendly policies. Tomar said this after inaugurating the administrative building of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Kandukur in Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district.

  • Fuel prices May Soon Rise Again as India's Crude Basket Reaches a 10-Year High

    As new hikes appear likely in the coming days, Indians may once again feel the pinch of rising fuel prices. While Indian oil companies (OMCs) have avoided rising fuel prices for the past 67 days, the rising cost of India's crude basket has rendered that position untenable in the long run.

  • Airfares Increases by 20% in the Last Two Months Due to Rising Jet Fuel Prices; Rising Air Travel Demand Has Slowed

    Domestic flights have increased by 20% on average in the last two months as airlines pass on increased fuel costs to passengers. The majority of an airline's operating costs are made up of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) or jet fuel costs.

  • Agriculture Officials Raid Factory Supplying Illegal Fertilizers

    The Agriculture Department raided a factory on the National Highway near Doraha on Friday for allegedly manufacturing eight to nine different types of unauthorized fertilizers. The factory owner has been arrested by police. Dr. Narinder Singh Benipal, who raided the factory with his team of block agriculture officers and agriculture development officers, claimed that the factory's owner, Vivek Aggarwal, the proprietor of Universal Crop Protection Firm, was selling unauthorized fertilizers to farmers at low prices.

  • Farmers Starts Movement to Make Agriculture More Sustainable

    On the eve of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's martyrdom day, farmer organization Kirti Kisan Union (KKU) launched a movement on Thursday to substitute the green revolution model with an ecological and pro-farmer sustainable solution to agriculture by holding conferences in 12 districts of Punjab.

  • WayCool to build India’s first ventilated cold storage facility

    Chennai-based WayCool Foods, one of the country's leading agri-commerce companies, plans to build India's first ventilated cold storage for onions that are stored in warehouses with ventilation rather than cold storage. The bulb rots quickly if it is removed from cold storage.

  • Escorts is now Escorts Kubota Limited

    Escorts Limited announced that the farm machinery and construction equipment maker has received requisite approvals for the name change of the company from "Escorts Limited" to "Escorts Kubota Limited" with effect from June 9, 2022 Kubota has also increased its equity stake in Escorts to 44.8% by subscribing to new equity shares. Nikhil Nanda who will continue to serve as the CMD of Escorts Kubota Limited said, "Our partnership with Kubota in Escorts Kubota Limited has been welcomed by all our stakeholders and investors. Consequently, the process was completed smoothly.”

  • Syngenta to launch 8 new bioinsecticides & 7 new biofungicides

    Syngenta is planning to launch three bioinsecticides and new biostimulants that act as probiotics and prebiotics on plants next year. The announcement came at the first session of the Syngenta Biological Academy, which brought together technicians from Syngenta's distribution chain. Maria do Carmo Pereira, Syngenta's Biocontrols Product Manager for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East said,
    "The European Green Deal, along with other known factors such as regulation and food value chain requirements, will change food production systems as we know them."

  • Spices Board to Provide Farmers with Market Access via Flipkart

    Spices Board, a Ministry of Commerce and Industry establishment, has signed a Terms of Understanding (ToU) with e-commerce platform Flipkart to improve market access and promote farmers and grassroots organizations working in the spices sector through its initiative Flavourit Spices Trading Limited (FSTL).

  • Oregon State University scientists to release a fruit fly-targeting wasp

    Oregon State University agricultural scientists will release a parasitic wasp that controls a highly destructive fruit fly in June after 12 years of research. According to Vaughn Walton, Extension entomologist and professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences, the United States Department of Agriculture has approved the release of the wasp, a lengthy process that took more than ten years from application to decision.

  • IHARA launches 3 new herbicides

    IHARA has announced the launch of three new herbicides with "innovative technologies" aimed at soybeans, one of which – DORAI MAX – is marketed as a replacement for Paraquat, which is banned in Brazil. Another new product is XEQUE-MATE HT, a systemic herbicide with high efficiency in combating annual and perennial weeds in a variety of crops.

On the news

11 June 2022

That's it for for 11 June 2022
Previous
Next