India is the world's second-largest consumer and number one vegetable oil importer, and it meets about 60 per cent of its needs through imports. A large part of it is palm oil and its derivatives, which are imported from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 23: CRC Group, a leading developer from Noida, hosted a successful plantation drive at CRC The Flagship. The event witnessed enthusiastic participation from the Group's channel partners, who came together to contribute towards a greener environment.
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], August 15: In a significant stride towards environmental sustainability, Aavas Financiers, a leading affordable home loan company, marked World Nature Conservation Day with a massive tree plantation drive. The company distributed and planted 4,000 saplings acro
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday gave a clarion call to the people to transform the plantation drive into a mass movement to check environmental pollution and enhance the green cover of the state.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Delhi on Sunday held 'Jhuggi Swachhta Abhiyan' -- a cleanliness and tree plantation drive. BJP leaders including Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, Union Minister Harsh Malhotra, and MP Bansuri Swaraj took part in the campaign.
The 134 Infantry Battalion (Territorial Army) Ecological, Assam, also known as the 134 Ecological Task Force (ETF), organised a mass plantation drive to mark its Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
The Ministry of Defence will undertake a massive 15 lakh trees plantation drive across the country on the occasion of 78th Independence Day ceremony on August 15, the Ministry of Defence said.
The plantation drive is a part of the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' campaign and will be conducted through three services and associated organisations such as DRDO, Defence PSUs, CGDA, NCC, Sainik schools and ordnance factories, as per a press release by the Ministry of Defence.
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], July 26: Max Life Insurance (Max Life/ Company) has planted 25,000 trees at the BSF Camp, Bhondsi, Sohna Road, Gurugram. The plantation drive spans 8 acres at the BSF Camp using the innovative Miyawaki technique, where two to four different types of indigenous tre
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, his cabinet, Speaker, leader of the opposition, and members of the assembly took part in a sapling plantation drive in the residential complex of the Vidhan Sabha on Thursday under the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' campaign started by Prime Minister Narendr