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Solidaridad & Centre for Responsible Business to launch regenagri Cott
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], November 26 (ANI/PNN): Solidaridad Asia and Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) are set to launch the regenagri Cotton Alliance (rCA) - an alliance of cotton stakeholders - to promote regenerative farming practices in India.
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Congress was in power for many years, did not give benefit of PESA Act to
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Chief Minister said the Gram Sabha will have the right to manage the ponds of the village, fish farming, singhara production in it and villagers will have the rights to income received.
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Union Agriculture Minister honored Clover Organic
Updated : 3 years, 3 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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Successful Farmer Producer Organisations are those that look beyond the ob
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], November 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): A webinar on 'Promoting FPOs for resilient incomes and sustainable farming practices in India' brought together practitioners and experts to discuss emergent challenges and opportunities related to Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)
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Chhattisgarh: Cabinet approves amendments to fisheries policy
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to the revised new fisheries policy, ponds and irrigation reservoirs for fish farming will no longer be auctioned but will be given on lease for 10 years.
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Rise Hydroponics organizes a 2-day workshop on hydroponics and soilless fa
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], November 23 (ANI/PNN): Rise Hydroponics organized a two-day offline training workshop on basics to advance hydroponics/soilless farming at Rise R & D Hydroponics Farm Ahmedabad.
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PM Modi seeks agreement to maintain supply of manure, foodgrains
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"In India, for sustainable food security, we are promoting natural farming and re-popularising nutritious and traditional foodgrains like millets. Millets can also solve global malnutrition and hunger. We all must celebrate the International Year of Millets with great enthusiasm next year
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J-K admin introduces scheme for promoting sheep farming
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
ISDS is one of the schemes of Sheep Husbandry Department aimed at not only achieving breakthrough in wool and mutton production but also addressing the problems of unemployment across Jammu and Kashmir.
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Israeli closed-loop cowshed ecosystem sets example for the world in dairy
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Israel's Volcani Institute of Ministry of Agriculture has set an example for the world in dairy as the institute's cow farm has all the basic amenities where every cow has insurance and the average production is 50 kg of milk per day.
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Tomar urges BIMSTEC agriculture ministers to cooperate in transforming agr
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While addressing the Second Agriculture Ministerial-level meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation through video conference, Tomar referred to the importance of millet as a nutritious food and the efforts made by India to promote millet an
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Naya J-K: Dairy farming opens new employment avenues, makes youth self-rel
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir is an agrarian region the agriculture sector contributes 16.18% to the UT's GDP, of which the dairy sector constitutes more than one-third.
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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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