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Focusing on water harvesting structures which will increase water table: M
Updated : 1 hour, 48 min ago IST
"In Mayurbhanj, around four lakh hectares constitute cultivable land, and out of that, 64% has an assured irrigation facility. During Kharif, with rain-fed irrigation, we cover 100% of the cultivable area, but during Rabi, irrigation drops to about one lakh hectares," he told ANI.
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Gujarat issues over 2.19 crore Soil Health Cards to farmers
Updated : 1 hour, 20 min ago IST
Agriculture has always remained central to Gujarat's holistic development. When cultivable land is not managed with care, it risks turning unproductive due to pollution, increasing soil salinity, and excessive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, as per the release.
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HP apple growers join nationwide farmers strike; demand rollback of labour
Updated : 1 hour, 16 min ago IST
During the protest, participants prominently raised demands including the repeal of the four "anti-worker" labour codes, a halt to the eviction of farmers from their land and homes, provision of cultivable land to landless and poor farmers, withdrawal of what they termed anti-farmer tarif
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Food security important for national security, need to increase farm produ
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"China has got lesser land than us on which it can do farming but the production of food grains in China is much more than what we produce. We need to focus on and put in more effort for increasing farm productivity. As food security is an important aspect of national security," Ajit Doval s
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Cropin launches AI Labs; To bring predictive intelligence to every acre of
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], May 10 (ANI/PR Newswire): Cropin, the agritech pioneer, building the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud, announced that it has set up a new AI Labs. With an initial team of 30 members comprising Earth Observation Scientists, Data Scientists, Agronomists
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Odisha businessman has 40 plant varieties in his rooftop garden including
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Mayurbhanj (Odisha) [India], January 30 (ANI): Everyone loves to have fresh vegetables from their backyard, but, with rampant construction leading to a reduction in cultivable land, owning a kitchen garden of your own is a dream come.
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Union Cabinet approves PM-KISAN scheme
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 1 (ANI): The Union Cabinet has approved the Pradhan Mantri KIsanSAmmanNidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, seeking to provide income support to all small and marginal landholder farmers' families with cultivable land holding up to two hectares across the country.
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