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A farmer walks through a mustard field at a village on the outskirts of Amritsar. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on January 11 questioned the government on whether the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) had considered the reports of the court-appointed Technical Experts Committee (TEC) on the biosafety of transgenic mustard hybrid…
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu with the delegation from Godrej Agrovet Company Limited led by the company’s managing director Balram Singh Yadav at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat, Hyderabad on January 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has exhorted the…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said before the sowing operation, tur farmers can register on the portal to sell their produce to NAFED and NCCF at MSP. File | Photo Credit: ANI Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged farmers to cultivate pulses on a large scale to reduce dependency on imports. He assured…
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It is estimated that there are more than 10,000 hectares under pineapple cultivation in Kerala. File photo Farmers are looking at the potential of a pineapple variety, which is yet to be named locally and touted as “very sweet”, suitable for mechanised processing and possibly with shelf life longer than the conventional Mauritius variety widely…
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Maintaining high import duties on sensitive agricultural commodities like rice and resisting pressure to open up the domestic sector to low tariffs will be crucial for preserving India’s self-sufficiency and ensuring food security for its population, a report said on January 1. Economic think tank GTRI (Global Trade Research Initiative) in its report said that…
With India’s farm sector remaining resilient to erratic weather conditions, the government is hopeful of having bountiful food grain production even as it tries hard to keep a lid on food inflation ahead of general elections in 2024. From floods to droughts, extreme weather events this year have not only raised fears over foodgrain production…
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Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Vibhu. H The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which met here on Wednesday, has decided to increase the minimum support price (MSP) for copra. The new MSP for milling copra will be ₹ 11,160 per quintal — an increase of ₹300 per quintal than the 2023 season. The…
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Workers packing bananas for export at a packaging unit near Chinnamanur in Theni district, Tamil Nadu. | Photo Credit: KARTHIKEYAN G With successfully exporting a trial shipment of fresh bananas to the Netherlands through sea route, India is now aiming to increase exports of this fruit to $1 billion in the next five years, an…
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Poor demand, abundant production, and early plucking of the produce this winter have left growers of kinnow, a citrus mandarin fruit in Punjab, grappling for a fair price for their season’s harvest. Production of kinnow, a hybrid between King (Citrus Nobilis) and Willo Leaf (Citrus Deliciosa) mandarins, is likely to see a jump from last…
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Workers carry sacks of wheat for sifting at a grain mill on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Centre revised the wheat stock limits on December 8 as increase in the prices of wheat and wheat flour (atta) remained unchanged in many parts of the country. For traders and wholesalers, the…
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