Tag: Agriculture
Vice President confers ‘Yeraringan’ Award to Prof M S Swaminathan
Calling Prof M S Swaminathan a transformative leader who has inspired many scientists, the Vice President, M Venkaih Naidu praised his efforts towards ensuring food security in India..........
EIMA AGRIMACH INDIA 2017: Need to build a future ready agriculture...
Time has come to get the farm equipment industry into a loop and enter into meaningful discussions for spreading the culture of mechanization in the rural areas...............
100 million ‘Soil Health Cards’ distributed to farmers in the first...
The union agriculture ministry aims to provide soil health cards to all 120 million farm holdings by December 2017. The second phase began on May 1, 2017, and will continue for the year 2017 to 2019.........
BIRAC invites applications from startups for its AcE Fund
The Accelerating Entrepreneurs (AcE) Fund launched by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) aims at helping the bioscience startups to cross the valley of death...........
Govt increases agricultural education budget to attract youth
Government of India has started implementing many programmes towards strengthening Agricultural Education, Research and Extension for a long-term and sustainable development in agriculture..........
Peri-urban agriculture can contribute in price stabilization: R M Singh
As per the union agriculture minister, Radha Mohan Singh, the Peri-Urban Agriculture can contribute in price stabilization and climate change adaptation through development of important local food production centres of the diversified food system..........
India’s dairy sector offers numerous possibilities for entrepreneurs
As per the Union Agriculture Minister, Radha Mohan Singh, the livestock sector contributes significantly towards livelihoods and security net for the landless and marginal farmers..............
Govt sends a proposal to UN for declaring 2018 as International...
The proposal, if agreed, will raise awareness about millets among consumers, policy makers, industry and R&D sector..........
Centre promulgates ordinance to encourage bamboo cultivation in non-forest areas
The Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 aims to promote cultivation of bamboo in non-forest areas to achieve twin objectives of increasing the income of farmers and also increasing the green cover of the country...........
Govt keen on popularizing the tissue culture raised plants
Stakeholders discuss ways to realize full potential of certification system. So far, more than 275 million tissue culture plants have been certified through this system...........