Tag: Maize

Central Government pledges full support for agriculture development in Chhattisgarh, focusing on farmers' welfare and input availability

At the one-day national seminar on Maize and Ethanol, experts emphasized collaboration between grain-based distilleries and farmers for assured production of maize

Maize exports jump nearly six fold in the last three years despite the pandemic with Bangladesh, Vietnam and Nepal amongst the key export destination

Japanese researchers develop a nanoparticle-based drug delivery system from corn/maize to target cancer cells

Project SAFFAL, launched by the South Asia Biotechnology Centre (SABC) along with the Government machinery and extension systems, played a vital role in effective management and control of voracious Fall Armyworm................

In a bilateral meeting with Brazilian Minister for Agriculture, Ms. Tereza Cristina Correa da Costa Dias, the Indian Minister for Agriculture, Narendra Singh Tomar announced approval for market access to sesame seeds from Brazil to India and thanked Brazil for granting market access to maize seeds from India.....................

Keeping in consideration the large scale post monsoon deficiency and other agro-climatic developments in various parts of the country, National Bulk Handling Corporation has come up with its Final Rabi Crop Estimates for 2018-19..................

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................

The new hybrid variety of maize developed by the IARI researchers has 4.5 folds more vitamin A content and similar amounts of lysine and tryptophan as earlier varieties.............

The 4th Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2016-17 have been released by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare on 16th August, 2017..............