Hi, NewsWrap for April 10, 2023

10-April-2023: IIT Madras, 'e-Nirog' App, Upsurge of Tur Dal MSP, EU, South Asia Experts Meet in Delhi, Healing Herbs 2023

10 April 2023

  • IIT Madras Researchers Plan to Turn Paddy Waste into Supercapacitors

    Researchers intend to create an environmentally acceptable system to upcycle paddy trash into raw materials for industrial purposes. Farmers would benefit from the technique since paddy waste may be used to create energy devices that can be used by industry. The researchers are creating a new 'Farm-Energy Synergy' by working with organic waste, specifically kitchen trash, to create usable activated carbon, a critical component in the production of supercapacitors. This strategy has the potential to significantly reduce stubble burning and other farm waste burning in North India. 

     

  • IIIT-Bhagalpur & BAU Collaborate to Develop 'e-Nirog' App for Crop Disease Detection

    Unlike the traditional approach of detecting plant/crop illnesses, which involves physical observation of disease symptoms on plant parts, the e-Nirog app use Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Indian Institute of Information Technology at Bhagalpur (IIIT-Bhagalpur) and Bihar Agricultural University (BAU) worked together to create an innovative mobile app for farmers' benefit, with the aim of detecting agricultural diseases and related problems and finding solutions. It has been named the 'e-Nirog' mobile app.

     

  • Govt Encouragement in Upsurge of Tur Dal MSP Will Help Farmers, Says Suresh Agrawal

    Traders of pulses have urged the government to increase the Minimum Support Price of pigeons’ peas. The President of Dal Mill Association, Suresh Agrawal says that the pulses production is low this year as opposed to the previous year. He also said that the encouragement from the government will aid farmers to choose the crop. Traders of pulses have requested the government to upsurge the MSP of pigeon peas. The increase in the MSP of pigeon peas (tur dal) will encourage farmers to maximize the cultivation of pulses.

     

  • EU, South Asia Experts Meet in Delhi to Discuss Strategies to Combat Global Food & Climate Crisis

    The dialogue between the EU and five South Asian countries took place as part of an EU-funded workshop series supporting the EU's 'Farm to Fork' (F2F) Strategy, which is part of the wider 'Green Deal'. Stakeholders in India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal have raised similar concerns about agriculture and farming-related environmental degradation, as well as food security, proper nutrition, and food waste reduction. Everyone agreed that comprehensive and long-term solutions were essential.

     

  • Healing Herbs 2023: Int’l Workshop to Boost Investment in Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Sector

    AFC India Limited will be hosting the first edition of "Healing Herbs 2023," an international workshop on the promotion of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, with the goal of bringing together various stakeholders and developing a whitepaper to improve opportunities for investment and the establishment of MSME in the wellness sector. Theta Foundation for Development will host a workshop on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Silver Oak, India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

     

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