Agriculture

For Uttar Pradesh Indian Sugar Mills Association's (ISMA) September 28 advance estimates had pegged sugar production this season at 76.60 lt, up from 68.55 lt in 2015-16. But as on April 18, mills in UP had already produced 85.27 lt. With 52 out of the 116 factories still running, the final output

The agriculture ministry in consultation with the Niti Aayog has identified a set of nine marketing reforms to ensure remunerative prices to farmers for their produce by reducing intervention of middlemen. It may be mentioned that the Narendra Modi government had made its resolve to double farmers

Grape Mundo, an Android mobile application developed by Rta Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Nashik-based software consultancy firm, is an open source app freely downloadable on Google Play Store This app helps farmers chalk out a schedule for application of inputs, based on best practices followed by

A MoU has been signed between Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) and National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) for geo-tagging of agriculture land. Speaking on the occasion Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) works for the development of Agriculture &

A new variety maturing within 125 days, yet yielding nearly as much as those now grown over 135-160 days, could provide the ultimate solution to Punjab’s woes stemming from farming of water-guzzling paddy. Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has released a paddy variety PR-126 that gives an average

Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh has said that the biggest challenge for the agricultural sector is to make smallholdings profitable and engage rural youth in agriculture. Work is going on to provide small farmers distinct technological option so that they can choose as per

Government has decided to fast-track the implementation of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) system for payment of fertiliser subsidy to farmers. From the coming kharif season, beginning June, the Rs 70,000-crore fertiliser subsidy budgeted for 2017-18 will be disbursed to companies based on actual

KADWANCHI’S 400-ODD farmers received 412 mm of rain in 2015-16, about 60 per cent of their average annual rainfall, but the cultivators weren’t unduly perturbed. For Kadwanchi village, located in arid Marathwada’s Jalna district, has witnessed a rare triumph. Even as neighbouring villages in drought

The annual Krishi Unnati Mela, being organised by Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) will this year be held from 15-17 March at the campus of IARI, New Delhi. The mela will be inaugurated by Hon'ble Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Sh. Radha Mohan Singh on 15th March, 2017. A

Speaking on the occasion of the laying of foundation stone for the Banana Research Centre at Gorole, Vaishali, Bihar Centre, on Saturday, Union Agriculture and Farmer's Welfare Minister Shri Radha Mohan Singh said that Bihar and particularly Vaishali district is very suitable for the cultivation of

Usually when one hears of some news from Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh, it is for all the wrong reasons - primarily of the naxal disturbance. However, in the Dantewada district Katekalyan has quietly been building another identity — as the nursery of organic farming mushrooming across the district

Three institutes of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun, have developed 20 high-yielding varieties of plant species. The Variety Releasing Committee (VRC) of ICFRE, granted approval for the release of these varieties of plant species, at a meeting held here on Monday