ICAR

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has released a total of 2122 crop varieties of food crops, oil seeds, pulses, commercial crops, horticultural crops, potential crops and fodder crops during a short span of the last eight…
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The Department of Biotechnology’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), has launched a global collaborative platform to help reduce the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) burden in India through stronger and more stepped-up…
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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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Herbivores organisms belonging to the same species (Conspecifics) use herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as cues while selecting an optimal site for oviposition. This is to ascertain the availability of nourishment for their progeny…
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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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In a major boost to the scientific efforts for crop improvement to save nitrogenous pollution and fertilizers worth billions, Indian biotechnologists identified candidate genes for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in rice. This was…
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For the first time, the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the main focus of the 8th triennial conference of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI). Postponed from May last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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India’s ongoing lockdown has threatened the agriculture sector as it overlaps with the time of harvest. In the present situation of COVID-19, farmers are looking for help in taking their produce to the market, as also in procuring…
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