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Amid scorching heatwave China's power usage hits record-breaking levels
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 27 (ANI): China continues to remain under the grip of an extreme heatwave and this has in turn threatened crops and people's lives and pushed China's power usage to record-breaking levels, media reports said.
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Fly ash emanating from thermal power station in Nagpur leads to contaminat
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], July 22 (ANI): The Fly ash emanating from the Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) on Thursday, lead to the contamination of crops and water in Nagpur.
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Bihar Govt gives diesel subsidy to farmers for irrigation of crops
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 19 (ANI): Bihar Council of Ministers in a meeting decided to give diesel subsidies to farmers for irrigation of crops in view of monsoon, drought, and short rainfall in the state.
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Farmers' income doubled for certain crops in past 5 years, shows SBI study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): Incomes of farmers have doubled for certain crops in some states from 2017-18 to 2021-22, a study conducted by SBI Research showed.
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Huge potential to boost fruits, vegetables exports from Vidarbha region: N
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): There is a significant potential for boosting exports of fruits and vegetables from Vidarbha region of Maharastra, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Monday.
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Nearly half of EU territory 'at risk' of drought: European Commission
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], July 18 (ANI): Nearly half of the area in Europe is 'at risk' of drought, said the European Commission on Monday as the bloc warned that water and heat stress is driving crop yields down from a previously already negative outlook for cereals and other crops.
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CM Baghel appeals to Chhattisgarh farmers for crop insurance
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], July 13 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday appealed to farmers of the state to get their Kharif and horticulture crops insured.
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Scientists discover cancer triggers that could spur targeted drug therapie
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): Researchers definitively linked the function of a specific domain of proteins important in plant-microbe biology to a cancer trigger in humans, the knowledge that had eluded scientists for decades.
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Innovative Pink Bollworm Mating disruption product CREMIT PBW unveiled to
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI/TPT): To present viable solutions to the problem of Pink Bollworm which prevails in the Punjab and Haryana region and damages cotton crops on a large scale a two-day awareness seminar - 'Innovative strategies for Pink Bollworm management in cotton crops' was or
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Canadian Firm Clean Seed and Chandigarh University come to rescue of India
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 8 (ANI/PR Newswire): Among the various issues being faced by India's Agriculture sector, stubble burning and soil depletion due to intensive cultivation and over-mining of nutrients by crops are the most serious ones. Far from a mere nuisance, pollution from
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Agri-tech startup, Agrograde raises a seed round to expand its operations
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI/SRV): Pune-based agri-tech start-up Agrograde has raised a seed round from CIIE.CO, Social Alpha, and Villgro. Now, the company is preparing to enter into new geographies and increase their offerings in the post-harvest space. With the fund, Agrograde plans to
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Use MSP as tool to encourage pulses, oilseed production, says industry bod
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): The government should use minimum support price (MSP) as a tool for both encouraging crops which are in short supply like oilseeds and pulses, and disincentivise crops such as wheat and rice which are in abundance, said edible oil industry body The Solvent E
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