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J-K: Udhampur wheat farmers opt for modern technology to thresh crops
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Earlier, due to the non-availability of thresher machines in rural areas, farmers used to manually thresh the wheat crop and it used to take 9-10 days depending on the quantity of the crop. But now with the help of modern thrashers, it takes two or three hours to thresh wheat crops, farmers
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Area under summer crops in India down marginally at 69.2 lakh hectare
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
India has three cropping seasons -- summer, kharif, and rabi. Crops that are sown during October and November and the produce harvested from January-March depending on maturity is Rabi. Crops sown during June-July and harvested in October-November are kharif. Crops produced between rabi and
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The Art of Living JalTara: A Scientific, Systematic & Scalable Solutio
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 11 (ANI/PRNewswire): India is suffering from a dire water crisis, especially in the rural areas. Being an agriculture-dominant economy, most of the rural population relies on water for irrigation and the growth of crops. Groundwater levels are in a critical
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J-K administration assesses GI tagging of 5 newly recommended crops from U
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo, on Wednesday chaired a meeting to evaluate the Geographical Indication (GI) status of five recently recommended crops from Jammu and Kashmir.
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Area under summer crops in India down marginally at 67.72 lakh hectare
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Greengram, jowar, bajra, ragi, maize, groundnut, sunflower, sesamum are some of the major summer crops.
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India sets record foodgrain production target of 332 million tonnes for 20
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Union agriculture ministry has set a target of a record 3,320 lakh tonnes (332 million tonnes) of foodgrains for the year 2023-24 as against the latest estimate of 3,235 lakh tonnes produced the previous year.
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YS Sharmila sends truck full of damaged crops to Telangana CM KCR, demands
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
YSR Telangana Party chief YS Sharmila sent a truck loaded with damaged crops to Chief Minsiter KCR to draw his attention towards crop damage in several districts of Telangana.
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IMD issues rain alerts for several districts in Maharashtra
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"Light to Moderate spells of rain is very likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Mumbai, Thane and Palghar during the next 3-4 hours, said the India Meteorological Department, Mumbai.
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Absolute's Inera launches a range of Bioabled Farm Inputs to transform Agr
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): Absolute, a bioscience company, has announced the launch of its biological agri-input business, Inera CropScience. The company's crop-agnostic range of biofertilizers, biostimulants, biocontrols, and seed coating products have been launched in Indi
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The Art of Living JalTara - Growing its way through, Leading to improved l
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 28 (ANI/PRNewswire): India is a land of farmers, and most of these farmers are facing tough challenges while growing crops. It may either be lack of water supply for irrigation or waterlogging during heavy rains leading to crop spoilage. This has made sur
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Millet dishes served during MP Cabinet meeting; council of ministers appro
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
CM Chouhan said that a new initiative was taken in the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. During the meeting dishes made from millets were served to the Council of Ministers in place of the food items prevalent in the past as snacks. These included biscuits, sandwiches, cutlets, bajra, papad and kh
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"Farmers committing suicide but PM Modi....": Telangana CM KCR
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"Hundreds of farmers are committing suicide in the country every day but the PM, and state leaders aren't bothered, they're bringing and showing us Cheetahs from Africa, Namibia," Telangana CM said.
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