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Union Agriculture Minister honored Clover Organic
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], November 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): For helping more than 50 FPCs to adopt organic farming of crops, achieving the target of selling 18 MT of Organic Pineapple and 350 MT of Organic Ginger in the State of Mizoram and for Outstanding Contribution in the Agriculture Sector
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Rabi crop prospects good on excess rainfall post monsoon: Report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Rabi crops are mostly sown during October and November and the produce is harvested from January to March depending on the maturity of the commodity.
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Chhattisgarh CM demands return of NPS amount, GST compensation in pre-budg
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in a pre-budget meeting in the national capital on Friday asked the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to return the National Pension Scheme (NPS) amount and said that the state's share will be deposited in a separate fund.
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Govt says adequate fertilizers available to meet Rabi season needs
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Rabi crops are mostly sown during October and November and the produce is harvested from January to March depending on the maturity of the commodity.
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Green pea crop in Shimla affected by rain, farmers in distress
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The green pea crop in Himachal's Shimla district has failed this year owing to the excessive rain. The crops this year were sown late due to the prolonged period of rain. Most of the crop is now damaged due to early winters.
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Ready to take measures to combat pest attacks on commercial crops: Karnata
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai on Tuesday said that the state government is ready to check the spread of pest attacks in the commercial crops and has taken multiple steps in the direction.
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Workshop on Increasing Cultivation and Consumption of Biofortified Crops t
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi/ Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): Grameen Foundation India (GFI), together with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and HarvestPlus hosted a one-day workshop on the "Scaling up Biofortified Crop through System Integration" in Lucknow on Wednes
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Research: Fertilisers affect how bees see flowers
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new paper in PNAS Nexus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that chemicals used in agriculture, like fertilizers and pesticides, can change the way bees 'see' a flower, and that this reduces the number of bees visiting a flower.
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Unseasonal rains affecting Kharif crops, to impact food inflation: SBI Res
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Kharif crops are mostly sown during monsoon -June and July, and the produce is harvested during October and November.
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Pakistan needs USD 16 Bn to build back as losses due to flash floods cross
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Losses due to devastating floods in Pakistan have surpassed USD 30 Billion in the country as the monsoon rains have washed away roads, crops, infrastructure and bridges, killing over 1,000 people and affecting more than 33 million
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Flood-affected farmers warn of protest in Islamabad next week if demands n
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Farmers have warned of protests in Pakistan as agricultural land and standing crops in Balochistan and Sindh had been destroyed due to devastating floods in the country which have added to the economic miseries of the people.
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According to research, hazardous herbicide chemical goes airborne
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"Dicamba drift" - the movement of the herbicide dicamba off crops through the atmosphere - can result in unintentional damage to neighbouring plants.
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