Farm Technology

Financial assistance up to 40% available for establishing farm machinery custom hiring centres

SMAM scheme aims to promote mechanization in areas with low farm power availability   Under its Sub Mission on Agricultural…

HAU becomes India’s first agri-varsity to develop e-tractor

The vehicle uses 16.2-kilowatt lithium-ion battery   The College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology (COAE&T) of the Chaudhary Charan Singh…

IIT Mandi scientists develop app to detect disease in potato crop using photos

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection…

Micro irrigation: A way forward to conserve water

Agriculture is the biggest water consumer. It uses around 70 percent of all freshwater withdrawals worldwide. With a growing world…