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Researchers demonstrate new technique for boosting plant growth with bacte
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Researchers have successfully demonstrated a technique for encapsulating bacteria, which can subsequently be preserved and applied to plants to promote their growth and protect them from pests and infections. The technique paves the way for a variety of crop applications that will enable far
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India produced record rice, wheat, maize in 2024-25, estimates Centre
Updated : 1 year ago IST
India has produced record rice, wheat, and maize in the 2024-25 kharif season, as per Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare's second advance estimates of production of major agricultural crops.
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CropLife India Celebrates International Women's Day to Champion Gender Equ
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 10: CropLife India, an association of both Indian and Global R & D driven crop science organizations, and the leading voice of the plant science industry in India, has been celebrating the Women's Day by an event - "Naaritva Ka Mahotsav", since man
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Pakistan: Wheat crops at risk as dams approaching dead levels
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has issued a warning to the Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan about a potential 30-35 per cent water shortage, as the Tarbela and Mangla dams are rapidly approaching their dead levels, affecting the wheat crops, the Dawn reported.
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PS Gahlaut of Indian Potash Limited: Vision for a Sustainable Future in AI
Updated : 1 year ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 8: "Vision for AI-driven agriculture by 2025 underscores the transformative potential of this technology to ensure food security, uplift rural livelihoods, and combat climate change," quotes Dr. PS Gahlaut.
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'Kshtipurti' Portal opened on instructions of Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini
Updated : 1 year ago IST
In line with the directions of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Kshtipurti portal has been opened to facilitate farmers in uploading information regarding the crop loss caused by recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms, said a press statement.
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Rajasthan: Churu witnesses intense hailstorm, landscape turns white
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The Churu district in Rajasthan, which is part of the Great Indian Thar Desert, witnessed heavy rainfall and hailstorms. The landscape turned white in Bhanipura, Bisarasar, Rajasar, and Sardarshahar, with hailstones the size of jujubes (fruit).
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MP has huge potential in unexplored crops for food processing says Rasna C
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Madhya Pradesh has significant potential in the food processing sector, especially in unexplored crops, according to Piruz Khambatta, Chairman of the Rasna Group.
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"We are proud of our Annadatas": Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Taking to social media X, the PM reshared a thread of the Government of India posts reflecting on how the country was home to the largest scheme and bumper crops.
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Bihar: Union Agriculture Minister Chouhan meets Makhana farmers, steps int
Updated : 1 year ago IST
He was also apprised of the difficulties faced by farmers in the cultivation of fox nut crops since the cultivators are expected to stay in the pond all day.
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Andhra CM meets Shivraj Singh Chouhan, urges govt to remove crop procureme
Updated : 1 year ago IST
After his virtual meeting with Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, he said that chilli farmers in Andhra Pradesh are suffering because of huge losses incurred and urged the government to intervene.
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Polyhouse farming boosts crop yields in J-K's Udhampur under HADP
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Farmers in Jammu and Kashmir's Bhaderwah are witnessing a transformation in the crop yield due to the state-of-the-art polyhouse installed under the government's Holistic Agricultural Development Programme (HADP).
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