agriculture

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; Minister of State PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has…
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Government announces Minimum Support Price (MSP) to ensure remunerative prices to the growers for their produce and encourage higher investment and production. The Government in its Union Budget for 2018-19 had announced the pre-determined…
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A new biotechnology centre has been set up in Kimin, a remote area of Arunachal Pradesh to help improve the socio-economic status of the tribal people in the State. It will aim at conservation and sustainable utilization of the local…
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Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, launched on Tuesday the fifth edition of the National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC) organised by Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms…
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Entertaining guests and relatives with delicious food made from fragrant rice have been a part of our tradition and rituals from time immemorial. Farmers have been cultivating fragrant rice in the corner of their land or a part of it. The…
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New Delhi, Aug 05 (India Science Wire): A polyhouse is a specially constructed structure like a building where specialized polythene sheet is used as a covering material under which the crops can be grown in partially or fully controlled…
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More than 170 individuals and organisations along with the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA Kisan Swaraj) have cited the detrimental and irreversible health and socio-economic impacts of mandatory food fortification.…
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Millets are marvellous sources of nutrition. Traditional and rural societies everywhere in the country and agricultural scientists in the top echelons of the Indian government have long known it. But it took free India 70 years to notify…
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Chandigarh based CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar’s Agriculture & Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH) share a common vision for conducting cutting edge research…
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As the global COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to stall progress for the world’s rural populations, the newly released the World Social Report  2021 “Reconsidering Rural Development” has stressed the need for moving rural development to the…
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