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J-K: Centrally-sponsored schemes help boost paddy farming
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir), July 11 (ANI): Directly benefitting from the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sanchai Yojna (PMKSY), farmers in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district have taken up paddy farming on a large scale.
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'Zero-budget farming to help double farmer's income'
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 10 (ANI): NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Monday said that zero budget natural farming (ZNBF) is one of the most potent methods to double the farmers' income by 2022.
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Centre's MSP hike doesn't address core concerns of farmers: Punjab CM
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Jul 4 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday dismissed the Minimum Support Hike (MSP) hike announced by the Centre "as nothing more than a cosmetic measure," which does not address the core concerns of the farming community.
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Silk reeling, spinning unit launched in Manipur to promote sericulture
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India] June 29(ANI): With an aim to encourage the local farmers to take up mulberry farming and silkworm rearing, Manipur Sericulture department launched a silk reeling and spinning unit in Bishnupur's Ngaikhong Khullen village.
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Israel to gift 100 units of digital farming to Gujarat
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 29 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani met Netafim CEO Ran Maidan and discussed with him the potential of digital farming in Gujarat.
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Centre striving to double farmer's income by 2022: PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the Central government is working to ensure the doubling of farmer's income by 2022.
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Indian seafood producer willing to invest in Lanka's aquaculture sector
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 20 (ANI): An Indian seafood producer Coastal Corporation Limited (India) has proposed to invest in Sri Lanka's aquaculture sector to boost cultivation of aquatic plants that are needed for the highly demanded shrimp farming overseas.
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Udhampur farmers earning big bucks after PM's talk on organic farming
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Jun 14 (ANI): Taking a cue from their Bageshwar counterparts, farmers in Chaintal village in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district have taken inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's words of adopting organic farming and have now joined hands, ear
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Andhra govt introduces scale-out scheme for natural farming
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 2 (ANI): The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday launched a Zero Based Natural Farming (ZBNF) scale-out scheme, aimed at benefitting around six million farmers by 2024.
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Amul MD supports Tripura CM's 'milking cows' remark
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India] May 1 (ANI): The Managing Director of dairy major Amul on Tuesday supported Tripura Chief Minister,Biplab Kumar Deb's milking cows for a livelihood remark and said that it is wrong for people to think that illiterates are fit for dairy farming since nowadays it has beco
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Dehradun woman changing people's lives through innovative Mushroom farming
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttrakhand) [India], Apr. 15 (ANI): A mushroom cultivator from Uttrakhand's Dehradun has devised ingenious and innovative methods of growing the edible macro-fungi, making its farming a lot more cost-effective.
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Traditional salt farming dwindling in Goa
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji, (Goa) [India] Apr 10 (ANI): The 1500 years old salt farming of rock salts in Goa is dwindling away as iodised versions of it are ruling the roost.
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