India loses farm produce worth $11b to weeds every year: ICAR
NEW DELHI: India loses agricultural produce worth over $11 billion — more than the Centre’s budgetary allocation for agriculture for 2017-18 — annually to weeds, according […]
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Kerala submits plan to double farmer income
By K R Rajeev KOZHIKODE: Kerala has submitted to the Centre a comprehensive action plan to double farmers’ income by March 2022. It was prepared by […]
Centre increases the agricultural education budget this year by 47.4 percent as compared to the financial year 2013-14
Shri Radha Mohan Singh addresses on the occasion of National Agricultural Education Day New Delhi: Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh has said that […]
Climate change costs India $10 billion every year: Government
By Vishwa Mohan NEW DELHI: Extreme weather events are costing India $9-10 billion annually and climate change is projected to impact agricultural productivity with increasing severity from 2020 […]
Empower The Farmer
By M.S. Swaminathan To solve the agrarian crisis, India needs to look at the human dimension of agriculture and focus on the problems faced by […]
City inst maps out best regions for organic farming in India
By Manka Behl Nagpur: The government is planning an organic revolution for the country, and the ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP) […]
PM Narendra Modi visits IRRI, contributes two Indian rice seed varieties to its gene bank
Prime Minister Narendra Modi contributed two Indian rice seed varieties to the gene bank of the international rice research centre in the Philippines which he […]
Agricultural scientists have big challenges ahead’
Former ICAR director general compliments scientists HYDERABAD: Department of Agriculture Research and Education former secretary R.S. Paroda has termed the contribution of agriculture scientists as enormous […]
ICAR to study if ‘cow urine’ can be used in organic farming
According to a senior Niti Aayog official, the ICAR has been asked to look into the possibility of converting cow urine into amino acid for […]
Maharashtra farm panel seeks CBI probe into sale of HT cotton seeds
Nagpur: A Maharashtra government Special Task Force on Friday urged the Centre to institute a CBI enquiry into reports that around 3.50 million packets of illegal […]