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Agriculture Industry
With a Waive and a Doleedit
Solving the farm riddleedit
The second advance estimates of national income for the current financial year that were recently released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) made a sobering read. For 2018-19, the overall growth of gross domestic product (GDP) has been pegged at 7 per cent compared to 7.2 per cent in the first advance estimates.
Technology-led solutions for changeedit
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Five lakh Telangana farmers to get Rs 2000 each under PM-Kisan scheme: MoS Agricultureedit
The Centre has released Rs 2000 each to about five lakh farmers in Telangana so far under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, said Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat here Saturday.
Bearing fruit: Maharashtra to set up six clusters to boost farm exportsedit
In a planned attempt to promote exports of the state’s agricultural produce, the Maharashtra government is set to develop six clusters in accordance with the Centre’s agri-export policy. The focus will be on these clusters, to come up in six zones, to export bananas, oranges, pomegranates, onions, grapes, and mangoes.
Hyderabad: Panelists discuss agriculture practicesedit
Agriculture practices adopted by various countries will help increase farmers income in India, opined the representatives of Telangana State Cooperative Apex Bank Ltd (TSCAB) and Network for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives (NEDAC) during an executive meeting held at Bangkok.
Nearly 85% rural women are engaged in agriculture but only 13% own landedit
On International Women’s Day 2019, the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched a global campaign to bring gender parity in agriculture.
Competition
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Technology in Agriculture
No ban on use of diesel agriculture pumps in NCR: Govtedit
The Ministry of Environment Friday assured the NCR farmers that use of diesel agriculture pumps has not been banned by the National Green Tribunal.The ban relates to only diesel vehicles (heavy or light) which are more than 10 years old, the ministry said in an official statement.
Stubble Burning
Farmers advised to desist from stubble burningedit
Punjab Agricultural University organised Kisan Mela at Faridkot on Friday. The mela was inaugurated by Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice-Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS).
The science behind crop stubble burningedit
Stubble and other crop residue burning is carried out each year in the summer months by farmers as an essential part of their normal farming operations and now seems to bring out a number of uninformed comments on why it should be banned. This is usually because of some other event such as Environment Canterbury (ECan) smoke plan in the towns or another fire somewhere.