RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
Ministry Of Agriculture
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IAPP for increasing agricultural productivity in Bangladesh
Dhaka: The Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP), funded by Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GA-FSP), will enhance the productivity of agriculture (crops, livestock and fisheries)
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No plan to decontrol urea price, hike rate by 40 pc: FertMin
NEW DELHI: The Fertiliser Ministry today rejected reports that it plans to decontrol the urea sector and effect a steep 40 per cent hike in retail prices of the product vis-a-vis the prevailing rate of
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India free from bird flu: Govt
The government today announced that the country is free of bird flu disease, but continues to keep a watchful eye on vulnerable areas. Bird flu, also know as avian influenza, is a flu that affects birds. The virus that causes the bird infection can mutate to affect humans.
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Record grain output in 2011 facilitates Bill
New Delhi The agriculture sector performed exceedingly well in 2011, with record grain production of over 240 million tonnes giving enough leeway for the government to lift a ban on exports of wheat and
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Maharashtra govt will not fix sugarcane price: Sharad Pawar
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Monday made it clear that the state government will not play a role in deciding the price of sugarcane and the sugar factories will have to take a decision on
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Pawar, Jairam heading for turf battle?
New Delhi: NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has rolled the dice for another confrontation with Jairam Ramesh, laying claim to a key arm of the rural development ministry which is piloting the land acquisition
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NREGA: Jairam rejects Pawar claim, says no impact on farms
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has rejected Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s suggestion on modifying MGNREGA’s guidelines, saying it has not impacted the availability of workers for the farm
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Food subsidy cost blown up, say policy-makers
‘Extra expense won’t exceed Rs 100,000 crore, will be spread over 5 years’. Critics have slammed a bloated subsidy that has been proposed for the food security bill, but officials in the government strongly believe that the resultant additional burden will not be above Rs 27,000 crore to meet the commitments under the proposed legislation.
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India loses 8 lakh hectare arable land to non-farm use
New Delhi India lost as much as 8,00,000 hectare of arable land to non-farm usage, including the construction of buildings, roads and railways, in the five years through 2008-09, the government said on
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Food subsidy bill hit R45,125 cr on December 15, says Thomas
New Delhi The Centre has released R45,125 crore towards food subsidy until December 15, in line with its budgeted subsidy of R60,572 crore for the current fiscal through March 2012. India’s food subsidy bill rose to R62,929,56 crore in 2010-11 from R58,242.45 crore the year before, food and public distribution minister K V Thomas said in Parliament on Monday, a day after the Cabinet cleared the food security bill that proposes to widen the government's subsidised grain sales to feed the poor