Tag: Agriculture
Entrepreneurship development through spawn & mushroom production in Nagaland
Mushroom production and marketing has great prospect in Nagaland as mushroom availability in Nagaland is very less. Let's look at the success story of an entrepreneur................
Farmers to get subsidy on crop residue management machinery
Crop residue management in the field helps soil become more fertile thereby resulting in savings of Rs 2000/hectare from the farmer’s manure cost...................
NABARD’s Rs 45 crore push for agritech via investments into VC...
The total commitments to its portfolio of 15 Venture Capital Funds by the agriculture development bank rose to INR 263 crore in FY18 as compared with 12 ones aggregating INR 218 crore in FY17...……………...
Review workshop on attracting & retaining youth in agriculture held at...
The prominent agriculture experts discussed the ways to attract youth in agriculture by making it glamorous, profitable and modernized through a series of positive activities...………..
Delhi set to host Krishi India expo, Wellness India 2018 on...
Mr Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State, (Independent Charge), Ministry of AYUSH and Mr KJ Alphons, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism will be the Chief Guests at the opening ceremony at Pragati Maidan on 20-22 August 2018...…………….
National workshop on artificial intelligence in agriculture held in Delhi
The workshop explored various possibilities of incorporating AI based systems in potential areas of agriculture and to provide a platform for agricultural scientists to deliberate on AI and its implementation in agriculture...………….
NIRDPR to host five-day training programme on gender sensitization in agriculture
The programme seeks to familiarize the participants with the idea of gender sensitivity and gender justice in nutrition and expose participants to innovative strategies and best practices to promote Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture...……………….
‘Model Act on Contract Farming’ will encourage entry of private sector
As per agriulture ministry, the adoption of contract farming under the new model act released in May 2018, will help in mitigating the price risk and market uncertainties, thus encouraging entry of private players into the farm sector...……….
We are providing assistance to small & marginal farmers, claims govt
Highlighting the various schemes being implemented by the union government for small and marginal farmers, the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Mr Parshottam Rupala claimed that his ministry hears to the...…………..
Agriculture ministry lists steps to boost domestic milk distribution
Besides the steps to efforts domestic demand such as milk distribution programme in Karnataka, Bihar and Rajasthan through anganwadis, the agriculture ministry has created a corpus of Rs 300 crore has been created to provide working capital loan to state cooperative federations...………..