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Agriculture Industry
Zee Media Krishi Manch to bring together farmers and agricultural scientists of Indiaedit
Zee Media along with Gulf Oil is providing a unique platform for progressive farmers of the country. Zee Media UP Krishi Manch is being organised on the occasion of Farmers Day. The platform will bring together different stakeholders from the agricultural industry. Zee Media has been working to bring people related to agriculture, be it farmers, agricultural scientists, modern technology and government schemes of farmer interest on one platform.
TRACTOR SALES TO FALL FURTHER IN 2020edit
Agricultural tractors suffered another large decline last month to be down 16 per cent compared to November last year and are now 11 per cent behind year-to-date.
Farm tourism to be promoted in Haryana: Tourism Ministeredit
Farm-tourism will be promoted in Haryana now so that farmers can earn extra income along with their basic work, Tourism Minister Kanwar Pal said on Tuesday.
“For this purpose, some places will be identified where tourists from India and abroad can get the information about Haryanvi culture such as making jaggery, cow milking, sowing seeds, plucking fruits in orchards, kite flying, bullock cart ride and Wrestlers arena,”the minister said in a statement.
After taking a review meeting of Haryana Tourism Department and Haryana Tourism Corporation here, Kanwar Pal said that Haryana Tourism Department has decided to take this initiative to give the tourists a taste of the authentic Haryanvi lifestyle. He said that with this step of ...
Stubble Burning
Avoiding stubble trouble: Agricultural methods for reducing cereal crop wasteedit
When we grow crops a huge amount of energy goes into their production and harvesting. In general, there is also a lot of waste when the wheat is separated from the chaff, so to speak, and stubble trouble is a common problem for wheat and rice and other cereal crops. Now, work on the energy content and potential to do work, exergy, of rice straw suggests that we might have an alternative to simply digging stubble in or burning it.