Crop insurance in J&K from April
Krishi Beema Yojana, national crop insurance scheme, would be introduced in Jammu and Kashmir from April. The scheme would insure small and marginal farmers against losses due to natural calamities,
Krishi Beema Yojana, national crop insurance scheme, would be introduced in Jammu and Kashmir from April. The scheme would insure small and marginal farmers against losses due to natural calamities,
The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) on Wednesday said it has successfully developed the world's first hybrid onion that promises to increase yields up to 20 per cent. The high-yielding
The Chilarai Krishi Bikash Samiti has stated the State Institute of Rural Development(SIRD) Assam has recently started the SGSY special projects on mushroom cultivation, establishment of farmers
House and Senate negotiators writing a compromise bill to boost U.S. crop subsidies by $5 billion a year may wrap up work early next week despite a tower of disagreements, aides said.
The paradox of starvation amidst plentiful foodgrain supplies does case a shadow over the food subsidy question. It is nobody's case that such subsidies per se are bad, but in as much as they fail to
The Madhya Pradesh government recently launched a programme to give foodgrain as wage to landless agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and people living below the poverty line who will make
Onion farmers from the neighbouring Nashik district (Maharashtra) have lost crores of rupees due to the ongoing indefinite strike by traders. Transations at the Nashik agricultural produces marketing
Farmers in European Union candidate countries would see their incomes rise by 30 per cent after joining the EU even if they received no direct aid payments, according to a study.
About 1.5 million hectares in India can be covered with hybrid rice during the next five years and by 2010, the country could have a major seed business in hybrid rice, provided the Union and state
After getting a detailed feed back from its sources following a petition filed by a Calcuttan, the Environment Appellate Authority has ordered a probe into allegations that poultry farms particularly
The eradication of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) from Assam constitutes one of the components of the National Project for Rinderpest Eradication. Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP)
Soy producers in Brazil's South are ignoring the country's ban on planting genetically modified (GM) crops in an effort to stay competitive, leaders in the farm industry said. A representative of
Ethical issues related to globalisation and agricultural intensification will be addressed by the Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture gathered in Rome from 18 to 20 March 2002
The UN Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) press conference will follow the second meeting of FAO's Independent Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture, set up by the
The Uttaranchal Chief Minister, N.D. Tiwari, today ordered the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology to immediately conduct a survey of the magnitude of threat to the coming mango crop in
About 40 piglets have died of foot and mouth disease(FMD) in the local Government Pig Farm in Haryana during the past few days. According to the farm sources, all piglets were less than eight weeks
If GM technology is part of the larger question of environmental integrity, then we must address the entire question and not with the ambivalence we now show. Several decades form now, the country
The national agri-enterpreneurial scheme to raise a new breed of agri-consultants in rural areas has received a good response, with 7,293 applicants form all over the country. The initiative,
Traditional knowledge base and agricultural practices in the Central Himalayan region and the impact of changing legislation on indigenous hill customs will be among the subjects to be discussed at a
Japanese households threw away or failed to consume some 6 percent of the food they purchased in fiscal 2001, down 1.7 percentage points from a year earlier, according to an agriculture ministry