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Light rain likely in parts of Uttar Pradesh: IMD
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"Light-intensity rain/drizzle would occur over and adjoining areas of Iglas, Hathras, Jalesar, Etah (U.P.) during the next 2 hours," the IMD tweeted.
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Maharashtra: Farmers protest on 'Akshaya Tritiya' after rains damaged crop
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Workers and farmers of the Farmers' Organization staged the protest in the Sangrampur tehsil office premises demanding the opening of a government gram procurement centre and onion subsidy for summer onions.
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Himachal: Congress MLA demands compensation for apple growers after crops
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
In a statement issued to the press, MLA Kuldeep Rathore said, "In Shimla district, due to rain and hailstorm for the last several days, crops have suffered heavy damage at many places. In Jadoon Panchayat of Narkanda, which falls under the Theog assembly constituency, apple plants have suffe
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Crops seeds return from space in IAEA/FAO project to help feed warming wor
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
To support these farmers and improve global food security, the IAEA and FAO, through their Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, sent seeds into space to explore the effects of cosmic radiation on speeding up natural, genetic adaptation of much needed crops. Th
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Pakistan: Crisis of drinking, agricultural water arises in Sindh's Badin d
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Millions of people are deprived of drinking water and crops could not be sown on thousands of acres of cultivated agricultural land.
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Research shows how plants control nitrogen use
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Plant biochemist Soichi Kojima and colleagues at Tohoku University discuss their findings and future plans about how gene and protein control systems that regulate the use of nitrogen by plant roots could help develop crops that require less nitrogenous fertilizers to produce acceptable yiel
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Bhutan: Women-friendly mini tillers may shift gender-based division of lab
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
For generations, ploughing fields has been traditionally viewed as a job reserved for men while women were often tasked with harvesting and processing crops. However, this gender-based division of labour may be shifting as more and more women are utilising mini tillers in Bhutan.
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Should educational degree be political issue? asks Sharad Pawar
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Slamming opposition parties for an attack on PM Modi over a university degree, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that the destruction of crops amid unseasonable rainfall and consequent loss to famers is a more important political issue on which discussion is necessary.
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Survey shows 1.3 million tonne fall in wheat production over unseasonal ra
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
There were reports from various wheat-growing states that unseasonal rains have flattened standing crops in some regions. Wheat, a rabi crop was in an advanced maturing stage, and was expected to hit mandis in a fortnight or so.
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Afghanistan: Farmers fear drop in crop yield in drought-prone areas
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A farmer said that wells have been drying up for the past two years and they have not received any help.
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Pakistan: Shortage of water to affect Kharif crops
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The water regulator, however, could not bridge differences between the two large provinces over the conveyance losses. As a result, the meeting set up a committee led by IRSA's member for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa "to determine actual system conveyance losses to resolve the issue", the regulator sa
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AAP's Raghav Chaddha gives Suspension of Business Notice in RS over crop l
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Raghav Chaddha on Wednesday gave a Suspension of Business Notice in Rajya Sabha to discuss the huge losses incurred by farmers across the country on account of damage to standing crops due to unseasonal rainfall and hailstorm.
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