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Nabard joins hands with NGOs to save Punjab’s groundwateredit
Concerned over depleting groundwater in Punjab, some NGOs with the support of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) have decided to launch a campaign to make farmers aware about the judicious use of water in farming. The campaign has been themed as ‘Jal Jeevan Hai’ (water is life).
Agri experts call on farmers to focus on self marketingedit
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We need to grow and market potato as seed for which need is for the agricultural scientists, industry and farmers to come together. Potato can help farmers earn very high profit,” he said. Ramandeep Singh from Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, said, “Packaging of agricultural produce holds key to sell agri produce more effectively and earn more. Farm market concept needs to be propagated in Punjab more effectively.”
Natural farming need of the hour: Venkaiah Naiduedit
“Green Revolution has helped select foreign countries whose economy is based entirely on industrial sector. Their industrial produce such as fertilisers and pesticides, genetically modified seeds are sold in India due to which farmers became completely dependent on foreign companies for everything,” Palekar said. Advisor to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Vijay Kumar, NABARD officials, My Home Group of Companies chairman Jupally Rameswar Rao and others spoke on the occasion.
India’s largest farmer unions ask environment minister to reject GM mustard commercialisationedit
“In view of the fact that this GM mustard has no benefits for farmers and is potentially harmful, we ask you to outright reject this application for approval for commercial cultivation. This GM mustard deserves the same fate as the GM mustard application considered for commercialisation in 2002, and Bt brinjal in 2009-10 in India. We oppose it and we request you to reject the application.”
Why India Inc is on an M&A spree, preferring inorganic growth to investing in fresh projects and capacitiesedit
VS Parthasarathy, group chief financial officer of auto and farm equipment maker Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), recalls a conversation with a supplier a few years back that was one of the inspirations behind MSquare Alliance, an online portal to help small and medium enterprises make acquisitions. It was just after M&M had pulled off an overseas buyout and the supplier let on that he too was pursuing an inorganic strategy for growth.
AI can play key role in good governance: Microsoft officialedit
Artificial intelligence or AI as it is called in cyber parlance, and believed to be the next big thing in information and technology, can play key role in good governance, a senior Microsoft official has said. “We are seeing that governments are benefitting through Artificial Intelligence and are able to bring (governance) closer to people in their countries,” Dave Forstrom, director of communications for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) group at Microsoft, told PTI.
Hanjura calls for promotion of Red rice, Mushkubudji, mushroom cultivation, beekeepingedit
Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura underscored the need for establishment of Cluster Zones in the tourist areas for organic vegetable cultivation. He also asked the officers of Agriculture department to promote Red rice, Mushkubudji, Beekeeping, Mushroom and Vegetable cultivation in the Valley.
Maharashtra government to increase cow population via frozen semenedit
The Maharashtra government — in a bid to increase milk production — will introduce a programme to encourage the breeding of cows over bulls. The state government has decided to take frozen bovine semen from an American company that guarantees its clients of breeding 98 per cent of cows and not bulls. However, activists are sceptical about the impact of the mass scale implementation of the said programme.
Competent workforce vital for boosting honey harvest: Speakersedit
Speakers at a training session here on Friday mentioned that generating a skilled workforce can be effective means of boosting beekeeping and honey harvesting to meet gradually rising demands for honey both at home and abroad, reports BSS. They viewed that there is enormous prospects of enriching the country’s export list through boosting honey farming and its field level production. If quality control and modern packaging are done, demand for Bangladeshi honey will increase in international markets as a whole. The speakers were addressing the inaugural session of a fortnight-long training on skill development on honey farming at Bakshail village under Mohanpur Upazila in the district yesterday afternoon. Industrial Support Centre (ISC) of Bangladesh Small and ...