Tag: Agriculture
Farm scientists should make agriculture profitable & sustainable: Vice President
Asking the scientists and researchers to spend “considerable time” with farmers to come out with practical solutions, Mr Venkaiah Naidu suggested that staying with farmers should be made mandatory for students pursuing agricultural courses.............
Scientists must come from every section of society: Dr K VijayRaghavan
After being appointed as the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, the former Secretary to the Department of Biotechnology, Dr K VijayRaghavan took to Twitter to thank the scientific community and other well-wishers.............
New guar gum based hydrogel may help save drought-hit crops
Addition of hydrogel also lowered bulk density of the soil signifying increased porosity by 9 percent. Higher porosity improves soil aeration and microbial count thus improving overall quality of the soil....................
Area under hybrid varieties increasing, leading to improved nutrition: RM Singh
India produced only 1.73 MT maize earlier, which has reached 25.89 MT in 2016-17 and is expected to cross 27 MT in 2017-18. This The average productivity in India is 2.43 ton/ha................
Organic farming revolution in India on the lines of green revolution,...
The Minister said the government’s target is to cover 50,000 hectares under organic farming in the North Eastern states, out of which 45,918 hectares have been made suitable for organic farming and 2429 Farmers Interest Groups have been formed................
Sami-Sabsina announces 10 year reforestation commitment to Pterocarpus marsupium cultivation
With a view to ex situ conservation of the highly valued but neglected tree species Pterocarpus marsupium (vijaysar) this project sponsorship will ensure plantation of over 166,600 trees on 250 acres of forest land over the next ten years.....................
ICFRE & TIFAC sign MoU for supporting forest based communities
The partnership is aimed at refining and up-scaling the technologies developed, taking them to the end users including farmers, State Forest Departments, forest-based industries and forest-dependent communities in a more effective manner..................
Govt announces skill development training programmes at Krishi Vigyan Kendras
Union Agriculture Minister, Radha Mohan Singh has emphasized that the government believes agriculture must be developed as a private enterprise so that it attracts more youth...............
Farmers & scientists have to work together to transform agriculture, says...
Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi inaugurated the Jaivik Kheti portal and laid the foundation stone of 25 Krishi Vigyan Kendras besides conferring the Krishi Karman Award and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Krishi Vigyan Protsahan Puraskar.............
85% of farmers are marginal, efforts on to update them on...
As per the union agriculture minister, Mr Radha Mohan Singh, the strategy documents on doubling farmers’ income by 2022 for different states have been developed through coordinated efforts....................