ANDHRA PRADESH

Andhra Pradesh: Tobacco crop size hiked to 130 million kg for 2021-2022

The tobacco board has fixed crop size for Andhra Pradesh at 130 million kg for the 2021-22 crop season. The decision was taken at the special board meeting held in virtual mode on Monday. The reasonably decent prices offered by traders for the stock during the current auction season seem to have prompted the board to increase the crop size for the next season, which is nearly 15 million kg increase over last year’s crop size of 115 million kg.

The board had trimmed the crop size for both AP and Karnataka for 2020-21 crop season following the outbreak of Covid-19. But with entire stock produced by growers consumed by the trade in the last two years, the board has decided to revive the crop size in both states.

INTERNATIONAL

Exercise Between India and Saudi

Al-Mohed Al-Hindi Exercise set to begin between the navies of India and Saudi Arabia.

This is the first bilateral naval exercise between the navies of India and Saudi Arabia.

The sea section has already begun.

For a deeper appreciation of each other’s operational practices, lectures by difficulty rely on experts from both navies were additionally held.

NATIONAL

Common Survey to Count Tigers and Elephants

India will adopt a system that will count elephants and tigers from December as a common survey.

Highlights:

The announcement was made on August 12 on the occasion of World Elephant Day.

The tiger survey will be held in four years, and elephants are surveyed once in five years.

Since 2006, the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, which is affiliated with the Environment Ministry, has had a standardised protocol used by States to estimate tiger numbers.

Tigers are counted based on sightings in camera traps and indirect estimation methods. Elephant numbers largely depend on States directly counting the elephants.
In recent years, techniques such as analysing dung samples have been deployed to estimate elephant birth rates and population trends.

There were 2,997 tigers by the 2018-19 survey and 29,964 elephants by the 2017 survey in India.

Given that 90% of the area occupied by elephants and tigers is common, and after standardisation of estimation methods, having a common survey can significantly save costs.

Export of 5 Varieties of Apple – APEDA

APEDA in collaboration with HPMC (Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation Ltd) exported the first consignment of 5 special varieties of apples in order to promote agricultural and processed meals merchandise exports to more recent destinations.

Five varieties of apples consisting of Dark Baron Gala, Royal Delicious, Scarlet Spur, Red Velox and Golden Delicious were exported to Bahrain. These apples were sourced from farmers of Himachal Pradesh.

The first consignment used to be exported with the aid of APEDA registered DM Enterprises.

Apples to be showcased at the apple promotion programme equipped by the main retailer known as the Al Jajira group.

 Mango export: In July 2021, the consignment of Geographical Identification (GI) licensed Fazil mango was exported to Bahrain in order to improve mango export attainable from the eastern location to centre east countries. Mangoes were sourced from the Malda district of West Bengal. It used to be exported by means of APEDA registered DM agencies in Kolkata and imported by the Al Jazira crew in Bahrain.

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana – Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

A Central Sector Scheme called Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) is being applied