Connected agriculture enhances farmers’ capability to conduct financial transactions easily and provide easier access to agricultural information in rural areas PUNE, INDIA, January 17, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Connected agriculture enhances farmers’ capability to conduct financial transactions easily and provide easier access to agricultural information in rural areas. Due to radical changes in agriculture policy in both developed and developing regions, implementation of advanced agricultural technologies have proved to raise the purchasing power and living standards of farmers.
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Ooni wants inclusive agriculture to end poverty, unemployment
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has called on Nigerians to aggressively engage in agriculture to end poverty and reduce unemployment in the country. Adeyeye made the call at the 2017 Mike Omotosho Annual Lecture with theme, `Increased Agricultural Productivity for Sustainable Economic Growth’, in Abuja on Saturday.
Autonomous Mining is Coming to the U.S.
Don’t blink, you could miss it. Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, forcing companies to either adapt or get left behind.
Canadian dairy could face Trump challenge
U.S. dairy groups are calling on Donald Trump to set his sights on Canada’s “protectionist” dairy practices as he seeks to safeguard American jobs. The International Dairy Foods Association, National Milk Producers Federation and U.S. Dairy Export Council, along with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture say a planned national Canadian ingredients strategy will block U.S. exports in violation of NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.
Increasing investment flow gave rise to forex crunch: PM
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, said that the country’s forex crunch is driven from the increasing investment flow, which has created huge mismatch between the demand and supply for foreign currency. This remark came in the PM’s address made today to the 12th regular session of the House of people Representatives .
Bird flu-plagued South Korea agrees to buy US eggs
In this Dec. 28, 2016, file photo, customers look at eggs at a discount store in Seoul, South Korea, a day after government officials announced that millions of chickens would be culled because of an outbreak of bird flu. Because of the spreading bird flu outbreak, South Korea has asked the United States for the first time to ship it shell eggs.
Yemen: EU-UN partnership to target ‘alarming’ food insecurity
New York, Jan 10 : With 14 million people in Yemen lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, the European Union has committed 12 million euros to assist the efforts of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to tackle rising hunger in the strife-torn Gulf of Aden country. [NK Middle East] This is one of the worlds worst humanitarian crises.
‘We won’t cough up for fly ash health checks’
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14 things that will cost you more in 2017
As time goes on, things get more expensive. That’s just how inflation works . But sometimes, for reasons ranging from droughts to migration, the prices of things spike far past inflation.
Queen bees: The honey co-ops giving Afghan women control
In the mountainous central province of Bamiyan, one of the country’s least developed but most liberal regions, beekeeping complements its only other commercial crop, potatoes, and gives rural women the chance to become entrepreneurs. Four beekeeping cooperatives have been set up here in recent years, backed by NGOs and foreign aid.
Experiment in suicide zone
New Delhi, Jan. 5: Depression levels and suicidal thoughts declined across rural households in 30 villages in Vidarbha, India’s epicentre for farm suicides, after a mental health experiment that its proponents say illustrates a new measure to curb suicides in rural communities. The experiment, called the Vidarbha Stress and Health Programme and implemented in Maharashtra’s Amravati district, appeared to pull down the prevalence of suicidal thoughts from 5.2 per cent to 2.5 per cent in 18 months, researchers said yesterday.
Azelis eyes African middle class with Ivory Coast investment
Ingredients specialist Azelis has set its sights on Africa’s growing middle class with a new import and distribution office in the Ivory Coast. The office, located in the country’s administrative capital, Abidjan, will initially focus on food and health ingredients but plans to expand into agriculture and horticulture.
Mired in Mud, Brazil’s Unpaved Roads Delay Farming Promise
That’s what trucks traveling from Brazil’s top soybean and corn producing region, Mato Grosso, often face on their trips to newly-expanded export terminals in the north. During the last commodities boom, Brazil’s exports were disrupted by port bottlenecks that saw scores of ships waiting to load.
Basmati prices up but production set to fall 30 pc
Farmers are now realising 50 per cent more than the price they got by selling basmati rice, simply because they reduced the area. But exporters may not benefit from this as their returns have slumped compared to last year.
Another good target for EPA reform
With reform-minded folks in charge of the Executive and Legislative Branches, unelected, unaccountable, un-removable bureaucrats may soon be exerting far less power over our policies, regulations, lives and livelihoods. Energy and climate are high on the fix-it list.
‘Designer’ ecosystems could boost river clean-ups
A new project aims to reveal what delays recovery of degraded rivers and streams – why waterways themselves can prove resistant to attempts to replenish them. Photo / File A new project, led by a team of scientists at the University of Canterbury, aims to reveal what delays recovery of degraded rivers and streams – and why waterways themselves can prove resistant to attempts to replenish them.
US Scrambles to Clear Egg Exports to Bird Flu-hit South Korea
U.S. officials are urgently seeking an agreement with South Korea that would allow imports of American eggs so farmers can cash in on a shortage caused by the Asian country’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu. South Korea banned imports of U.S. table eggs last year after the United States grappled with its own bout of bird flu.
Team GB lead the way in New Year Honours list
Britain’s first ever Tour de France cyclist, a cutler to the Queen with 76 years under his belt and the director of an agricultural show are among the Yorkshire recipients of New Year’s Honours Nationally, Olympic heroes Mo Farah, Andy Murray and Sheffield’ Jessica Ennis-Hill lead the way in a list dominated by Rio 2016’s Team GB. Others who will claim the title Sir in the new year include Kinks frontman Ray Davies, 72, and veteran comic Ken Dodd, 89, recognised for services to the arts, and entertainment and charity, respectively.
The dirty secret about your clothes
A woman hangs dyed yarn to dry at a textile mill on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura. In the Colours of Nature dye house, Vijayakumar Varathan is busy prepping a vat of indigo.
Tayebwa: An agricultural economist who inspired students
Tayebwa was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in addition to diabetes mellitus and hypertension, ailments he struggled with for about 15 years until he developed kidney failure that prompted a transplant surgery Mr Tayebwa held a Master’s Degree in Agriculture Economics and a Post-graduate diploma. He taught at Makerere University between 1987 to 2007 as a lecturer of economics and agriculture economics.
Maharashtra Cabinet to setup separate ministry for development of OBCs
Mumbai , Dec. 27 : The Maharashtra Government on Tuesday decided to create a new ministry for welfare of Vimukta Jati and Nomadic Tribes , OBCs and Special Backward Classes. [NK Maharashtra] A proposal to this effect was approved by the cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
APVMA move bordering on the farcical
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Note ban is a firebomb on cash economy, poor: Rahul
Dharamsala : Escalating the attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused him of dividing the country between the rich and the poor and dubbed the move as “firebombing” on cash economy and farmers and labourers. Addressing a public rally here, the Congress vice president said the prime minister with his note ban decision has removed the “hat” of Himachal Pradesh as it has hit hard the state’s horticulture, agriculture and tourism sectors.
Proposed Top End dam funding knocked back by Federal Government
Agriculture may provide the key for the Northern Territory Government as it seeks federal funding for a new dam to meet Darwin’s future water needs. An application to the National Water Infrastructure Development Fund to obtain support for a feasibility study into a new resource for urban water supply in the Darwin region was knocked back by the Federal Department of Agriculture earlier this year.
Weeding out a deadly farming issue
LIVESTOCK CONCERN: Yenda Producers animal health consultant Korie Hoskinson urges farmers to inspect livestock of liver damage following growth of deadly weeds. PHOTO: Rebecca Hopper LIVESTOCK farmers in the Riverina are being encouraged to check their paddocks for potentially deadly weeds, spread by increased winter rain.
A promotional flyer for WHAM!’s Beijing concert in 1985. File photo
But now, prompted by the death of George Michael to recall that time, I can see that the concert I attended was more than just a musical first, it was a symbol of the changes that were setting China on the road to the country it is today. ) had started the ball rolling in the late 1970s by opening the country to foreign trade and bringing in the idea of entrepreneurism, and the period from late 1984 to 1986 was an interesting time to be in the Chinese capital as it felt as if Deng’s ideas had started to really gather pace.
china alarmed by chilli – conspiracy’ in Indonesia
China’s embassy in Indonesia has expressed alarm at media reports accusing China of using a “biological weapon” against Indonesia, after four Chinese nationals were arrested for planting imported chilli seeds contaminated with a bacteria. The headlines splashed across Indonesian media have sparked a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment on social media in a country with a history of simmering resentment towards its giant neighbour and a minority ethnic Chinese community.