Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, while presiding over a high-level meeting of apple cultivation and kiwi mission at the camp office on Thursday, said that work should be done in mission mode to bring the plans for horticulture development to the ground.
According to the report, the share of the state in the cultivation of fruits and vegetables has increased from 7.2 per cent to 9.2 per cent in the country within a decade, while the Gross Value Output (GVO) obtained from it has increased from Rs 20,600 crore to Rs 38,000 crore.
Singh while referring to lavender cultivation in the region, said that Lavender is an avenue of employment generation and research opening many paradigms of development.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo, on Saturday, flagged off a consignment of vegetable seedlings of tomato, brinjal, chillies, kale, saag khanyari, red cabbage, green cabbage for Gurez under Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP), sai
At least four farmers have died, and five others have been injured in a dispute over the poppy field destruction in the northeastern Darayim district of Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported.
The area under cultivation of various millets in India has been declining and the underlying reasons behind it could be attributed to the promotion of rice and wheat vis-a-vis millet production and lack of suitable initiatives towards millets, a Niti Aayog report said.
These farmers, who are often referred to as trendsetters, have been successful in adopting innovative practices that have helped them increase yields and improve the quality of their produce.
While addressing the gathering at the 'Sankalp se Parivartan ki Aur' program in Dehradun, CM Dhami said," Apart from promoting agriculture and horticulture, we have to pay more attention to natural farming. There is a need to pay attention to the natural cultivation of apples so that the app
Pakistan suffered a major flooding event in 2022 which eventually caused a wheat crisis, massive civilian casualty and displacement, all of which the Shehbaz Sharif government has been using to evoke global sympathy and funding. The unprecedented food crisis requires long-term steps to incre
The main mandate of this training is to raise awareness about the modern aspects of improving millet productivity through scientific cultivation technology and the importance of millets in human diet and rural economy.
Good news for tea lovers. The tea being cultivated in the tribal-dominated Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh without the use of chemical fertilizer will soon be available across the state as well as India.