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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Food Bill put on the backburner
Once bitten, twice shy. Fearing repeat of a recent fiasco triggered by its move to permit FDI in retail, the union cabinet on Tuesday deferred a decision on what can be called the present government’s
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Finmin goes back on urea decontrol
New Delhi The finance ministry, which has been strongly pushing for decontrolling the price of urea, a commonly used fertiliser, has finally decided against it. It has now endorsed the fertiliser department's
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Centre readies half-baked food bill
Set To Push New Law In Current Session To Counter Sense Of Policy Paralysis New Delhi: With a spike of Rs 27,663 crore in the food subsidy bill and the challenge of increasing grain procurement significantly,
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Water, fodder scarcity stares Sangli and Satara villages
More than 800 villages in the districts of Satara and Sangli were officially declared scarcity-hit by the state government following severe shortage of water and fodder. New divisional commissioner, Prabhakar
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Farms hit, freeze NREG for 3 months/yr: Pawar to PM
In the first high-level red-flag against the UPA government’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has told Prime Minister Manmohan
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Wheat, paddy seeds import allowed for trial purposes
New Delhi The government has allowed the import of seeds of new varieties of wheat and paddy for trial and evaluation purposes, Parliament was informed on Friday. In July, the agriculture ministry had revised the New Policy on Seeds Development of 1988 to allow the import of a specific quantity of seeds of both wheat and paddy, initially for the purpose of trial and evaluation.
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Firms pledge Rs 53,000 cr at agri biz meet
State Bank of India commits investment of Rs 40,000 crore to fund projects The State’s maiden international investment meet, exclusively for agriculture sector, on Thursday attracted proposals of over Rs 53,000 crore by 31 players in agri-business projects amid protests by farmers against private investment in farm and allied sectors.
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Proposal for Rs.20-crore organic poultry farming
Scheme to distribute 3.5 lakh birds to households The Department of Agriculture has sought Rs.20 crore from the Union Ministry of Agriculture to augment both egg and poultry meat production in the State.
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Revised draft of food Bill gives primacy to cash transfers, coupons
Social activists up in arms against proposed reforms; impact on procurement feared The Union Government's new move to give primacy in the revised draft of the National Food Security Bill, 2011, to controversial
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Ministry moots doubling ethanol blending limit
New Delhi The Cabinet will likely revise the ethanol price for the mandatory 5% blending with petrol later this month, renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said on Monday, as the sugar industry which