February 8, 2025

Deabruak

The business lovers

‘Value addition of agriculture can keep India’s trade afloat’

APM Mohammed Hanish, Principal Secretary (Commerce and Plantations), Kerala, has emphasised the need to have for benefit addition of agriculture crops, stating that “only by means of benefit addition, we can assist hold our worldwide trade afloat”.

“Only when revenue raise, our countrywide GDP go up and achieve fiscal security” he stated when addressing the symposium at PLACROSYM 24 in this article on Wednesday.

George V. Thomas, former Director of the Central Plantation Crop Investigation Station, Kasaragod, stated “the foreseeable future of agriculture will be in jeopardy if treatment is not taken in soil conservation activities”. This is why the United Nations to celebrate 2021 to 2030 as the Decade for Soil and Environment Restoration.

He was talking on the relevance of new solutions, processes, and tactics to manage regular good quality agri produce.

He pressured the need to have to reduce the normal ploughing of the cultivable lands to guard and avoid the depletion of the soil and keep away from the use of pesticides that are unsafe to the crop and the soil. He also urged the need to have for biodiversity by planting trees, lively adoption of cattle farming, and encouraging normal and biological farming routines in defending the soil.

According to agronomist Mote Kishore, drip fertilisation in espresso plantations is suited for the crop and can save up to 15-20 per cent of h2o and raise productiveness by twenty five-thirty per cent.

Nagaraj Gokavi stated that the countrywide common per hectare of espresso manufacturing is 600 kg, and the higher-density cultivation in espresso is manufacturing superior final results.

Basheer A Ali, professor at Sher-e-Kashmir College, stated that Kashmir makes 16.5 tonnes of saffron in opposition to the country’s necessity of one hundred tonnes. The harmony is fulfilled from imports, resulting in a loss of ₹1,680 crore in international exchange.