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Agriculture Industry
Pepper buyers stay away due to confusion over GSTedit
Sluggishness in the spot pepper market kept prices steady on Friday. North-Indian buyers stayed away from the markets as they are said to be confused over certain GST provisions, and, as a result, no trading activity is likely between June 27 and July 05, market sources told BusinessLine.
Farmers may be hit by higher GST rate on agrochemicalsedit
A large number of stockists and wholesale dealers of crop protection products in Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns are not GST-ready yet and this is likely to affect the availability of agrochemicals in July, a crucial month for sowing, said Rajesh Aggarwal, MD of Insecticides (India) Limited, on Thursday.
TNAU introduces Aeroponics technologyedit
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has introduced Aeroponics Technology that would help in growing vegetables without soil. According to Dr. R. Murugesan, Director of Agribusiness Development, TNAU, Aeroponics is a unique method of growing plants in an air and mist environment without the use of soil. “By this method most of the uncultivable lands can be utilised.
Syngenta Loses $218 Million Verdict in First GMO Trial Testedit
The farmers blame the lower prices on the Chinese rejection. Syngenta said this wasn’t a factor. The Swiss company was under pressure because Monsanto Co. had a seed that was equal to Syngenta’s that already had Chinese approval, Scott Powell, the farmers’ lawyer, told jurors Thursday.
Agri Commission to ensure better prices for farm produceedit
The Madhya Pradesh government has constituted an authority to make recommendations for providing beneficial pricing and marketing of agricultural produce in the state in the interest of farmers.
Punjab set to have agriculture centres of excellenceedit
Punjab would soon set up two centres of excellence- one for potato at Dhogri (Jalandhar) and another for floriculture at Doraha (Ludhiana).
Genetically engineered crops can lead to better outputedit
Use of genetically engineered (GE) corn varieties can lead to better output. A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper by Jayson L. Lusk from Purdue University and co-authors has found this using data from 28,000 observations for corn from 800 counties in the US during 1980 and 2015.