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Digital Green Revolution: ICAR’s plan to digitise breeding programmes of eight crops to double annual yieldedit
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is moving its plant breeding management system to a digital platform over the next four years. The objective is to improve the efficiency of plant breeding. It intends to double the average annual yield gain of 0.8% obtained through genetic enhancement since the start of the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s, to 1.5% annually over the next couple of decades.
Telangana: Farm sector sees huge jump in allocation in vote-on-account budgetedit
Declaring that Telangana was a pro-farmer State, the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced a whopping Rs 20,107 crore allocation for the agriculture sector in the vote-on-account budget for 2019- 20. The allocation for the farm sector is a massive increase over last year’s Rs 15,788 crore.
Why Bangladesh sees golden rice as a threatedit
Bangladesh farmers and environment groups are angry over the government’s decision to allow commercial cultivation of the controversial genetically modified (GM) rice, popularly called as the golden rice. They organised country-wide protests on February 13, 2019, after Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzak announced in early February that cultivation of golden rice may start in the country within three ...
20 million farmers listed so far for PM-KISAN doleedit
More than 20 million farmers, mostly from BJP-ruled states have been enrolled for the PM-KISAN scheme that will give small and marginal landholders Rs 6,000 a year, but most Congress-ruled states and West Bengal have sent very few names or not uploaded any data for cash transfers by the Centre.
After Centre, States Adopt KCR’s Subsidy Scheme, Telangana CM Takes Farm Loan Waiver Routeedit
Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has proposed to waive all agriculture term loans up to Rs 1 lakh outstanding as on December 11, 2018, in the vote-on-account budget for the financial year 2019-2020 presented in the assembly on Friday.
China unveils guidelines to support small household farmersedit
China on Thursday issued guidelines to support small household farmers and encourage them to become involved in modern agriculture.
The move aims to provide assistance to small household farmers, get them involved in modern agriculture, speed up development of modern agriculture and rural areas and facilitate the strategy to revitalize rural areas, according to the guidelines released by general offices of the ...