Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Chandigarh Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday urged the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to establish regional research stations in the state to boost the agricultural, dairy and fisheries sectors. The CM was presiding over a high level meeting of ICAR at Punjab Bhawan to discuss the …
India is growing more wheat than it ever was. While other leading wheat producing countries like China and US are witnessing a decline in output, the country has stood as an exception with an estimated record production of 84.27 million tonnes of the staple foodgrain this year. Russia, Canada and …
Even though products made of pashmina wool command envious prices the world over, its trade in the Valley has worn thin over the years largely due to government neglect and militancy. At 50 tonnes, India
The yellow rust disease that hit parts of the crucial wheat-producing States in northern India will hit production by about 5 lakh tonnes, informed sources have said. Although the Agriculture Ministry is said to have taken
For the first time in the recent years, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee devoted considerable amount of time on the importance of agriculture sector for the Indian economy in his recent Budget (2011-12) speech. He announced a number of scheme for augmenting production of foodgrain specially pulses and oilseeds. Indian Council …
New Delhi The country is all set to harvest a record wheat output in the current rabi season due to favourable weather conditions prevailing during the last few months and prompt measures to control the yellow rust disease which had threatened to destroy wheat crop in parts of Jammu and …
Jorhat, March 1: The Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, plans to construct a Northeast regional agricultural complex with state-of-the-art facilities. The Centre has sanctioned Rs 50 crore to make Assam the agriculture hub of Southeast Asian countries. Fifty per cent of the amount sanctioned by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research …
Farm Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the government should consider allowing exports of limited quantities of wheat and rice as stocks were good. Pawar also said a ministerial panel on food was likely to clear sale of 5 lakh tonnes of sugar under the Open General Licence (OGL) scheme, …
Namakkal: For the first time, a team of 13 persons from eight African countries came to India for a two-week international training programme on small hold livestock and commercial poultry farming that concluded on Sunday. Assistant Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Dr. V. Venkatasubramanian told The Hindu …
Traditional replenishing practices should be encouraged to raise crop yields Soil fatigue has emerged as one of the key constraints in raising crop yields. Most of the arable land in India has been cropped for decades and some even for centuries. In the process, nutrient consumption has far exceeded the …
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), which pioneered supercomputing in India, is now assisting the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in establishing a national agricultural bioinformatics grid. This initiative, the first of its kind here, will help scientists enhance agricultural productivity and also address problems like food …
With prolonged cold weather condition prevailing in the key growing areas of northern and central India during the last few months, the country's wheat production is expected to match last year's record production of 81 million tonne, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday .
THE Rajasthan government distributed hybrid maize seeds not suitable for agroclimatic conditions of the state to over 750,000 farmers. In doing so, it overlooked the recommendations of the Union ministry for agriculture and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). The seeds had failed to give desired yields during trials …
Indian cotton was once infamously plundered by the British to benefit their finished goods economy back home. The world-famous Dhaka muslin were woven with desi cotton. But while the foreign regime kept the Indian cotton alive, albeit for its own gains, independent India presided over its complete decimation. However, after …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) plans to promote its watershed projects as a livelihood option for landless farmers/labourers and women in southern districts of Tamil Nadu. It will organise a two-day residential workshop on January 20 and 21 at Theni in which non-governmental organisations partnering with NABARD …
- 12 more krishak pathshalas in the pipeline for East Singhbhum district Jamshedpur: Now, more farmers of East Singhbhum will go to school. Not to study though, but to get field tips. The district administration has decided to open 12 new krishak pathshalas (farming schools) in addition to the existing …
With the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) projecting that India will require 30 per cent growth in rice and cereal production, 140 per cent in pulses and 243 per cent growth in oilseeds to feed the burgeoning population in the next 10 years, a two-day India International Crop Summit …
Diseases caused by unseasonal rains have ruined almost 70 per cent of the kharif onion crop in Maharashtra this year, which is responsible for the nationwide shortage of the commodity, a senior ICAR official said on Thursday. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of …
