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Himachal Pradesh: 50,000 farmers to be trained in natural farmingedit
Governor Acharya Devvrat said that Himachal Pradesh government had fixed the target to train and cover about 50,000 farmers under natural farming in this financial year. Expressing satisfaction over the progress made by state in the direction of natural farming, he hoped that by 2022, Himachal would emerge as a fully natural farming state.
Loan waiver in Telangana after election manifestoedit
On Friday Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy announced that the Telangana Government would waiver off the crop loans, as promised in the election manifesto, after the end of Model Code of Conduct in the State. The minister was speaking after inaugurating the Seed Mela – 2019 at the Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) Auditorium premises in Rajendranagar.
Studying B.Sc.Agriculture can double farmer’s income and reduce povertyedit
At present, BSc Agriculture is one of the courses which open a gateway to limitless opportunities. One who pursues this course can work in all three sectors – Government, public and private.
Kudumbashree to make smart agri-villages across stateedit
Smart Agri-villages will be established across state under the leadership of Kudumbashree. The project will be commenced from June.
Parched Chennai: Why India must focus on building water storage capacityedit
Chennai is facing one of the worst water crises it has ever seen. There is just 1.3% water left in the city’s reservoirs—the fifth-lowest amount in 74 years. In 2018, the city received less than of what is usually does from the retreating/northeast monsoon that accounts for 60% of its annual rainfall. Consecutive years of drought have worsened the crisis. The city, whose water requirement is estimated at 2,000 million litres per day (MLD), is now receiving only 550MLD. The need to provide water for agriculture in the rest of the state and to the parched city simultaneously has caused a massive problem for the state government, since the land under cultivation and the population have both ...
Seed Mela-2019 inaugurated at PJTSAUedit
The PJTSAU has jointly organized the Seed Mela in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture and local ICAR Research Institutes such as Indian Institute of Millet Research (IIMR), Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Indian Institute of Oil Seed Research (IIOR), Central Research Institute for Dry Land Agriculture (CRIDA), ATARI, NAARM, directorate of Poultry, National Seeds Corporation(NSC), Telangana State Seed Development Corporation(TSSDC), Telangana State Seed and Organic Certification Agency (TSSOCA) and Veterinary and Horticultural Universities.
Agri dept to test soil samplesedit
The agriculture department has started collecting soil samples to study whether the soil has undergone changes in the last five years. “We have been given targets to collect at least 10 soil samples from a village panchayat and send them for laboratory tests. The sample would be collected by tagging the GPS data of the spot, before digging a 50cm deep pit. Soil taken between 0-25cm will be considered as sample I and that taken between 25-50cm will be sample II. The sample collector should also note down colour and nature of the soil, and the trees that grow in it,” an agriculture department officer said.
Uttarakhand: Kharif crop production dips by 10%, other crops also record declineedit
The production of kharif crops dipped by around 10% in the state during this season, even as the total area under foodgrain cultivation saw a marginal decline of 4%, as per a provisional estimate provided by the agriculture department. The estimate shows that the production of rice, the main kharif crop, stood at 5, 62,465 metric tonnes against 6, 05, 606 metric tonnes last year, registering a decline of around 7%. Similarly, the production of local grain mandua dipped by 22%, maize by 13% and ramdana by 18%.
District-wise melas to supply quality seeds to farmers soonedit
Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said the Annual Seed Mela (ASM) being organised at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University will be held at every district headquarters in the State from the next year.
India should cut interest rates to help exporters take advantage of US-China trade war: Ficci chiefedit
India should cut interest rates further and adopt consistent policies for the export of agricultural produce to enable Indian exporters to take advantage of the current US-China trade war, industry body Ficci’s President Sandip Somany said on Saturday.