Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Mahesh Kulkarni / Bangalore March 31, 2009, 0:48 IST The Union Agriculture Ministry has sanctioned a Rs 53-crore project to Karnataka for the implementation of the Integrated Fisheries Development Project (IFDP) over a period of three years, starting from 2008-09. Funds for the project have been sanctioned under the Rashtriya …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi March 30, 2009, 0:43 IST Thanks to about 3.8 million tonnes (or 3 per cent) additional land brought under cultivation, the foodgrains harvest in the rabi season, at its fag end now, is likely to top last year
MONOCROTOPHOS, A common pesticide, is also popular among some Indian farmers for a grimmer purpose: acutely toxic for humans, yet dirt-cheap, it is the instrument most farmers have chosen to end their lives with. A dubious claim to fame for the pesticide industry, even as its effectiveness in pest eradication …
Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving different original varieties of rice genomes. The communities are Vrihi Beej Binimoy Kendra (Bankura, West Bengal), Kuruchiya and Kuruma tribal communities (Wayanad, Kerala), tribal communities from Jharkhand, and P Narayanan …
With the forthcoming wheat harvest and its subsequent procurement, having the potential to sway elections in the rural areas of Punjab, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today assured Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal that every grain of wheat would be lifted from the Punjab Mandis during the season. The …
New Delhi: In the backdrop of protests against land acquisitions and SEZs that have stalled various projects, the UPA Government has decided to get the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2007, and the Bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act cleared by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Sources said a Group …
KOLKATA, Feb. 12: The state government will set up two potato export facilitation centres in the state. The centres will help promote export of potato to Europe, Asia and the Middle East, minister for food processing Mr Mohanta Chatterjee said today. He was speaking at the 44th annual general meeting …
Sharad Pawar There is good news for mango growers of Malihabadi in Uttar Pradesh. The National Horticulture Board will take steps to commercialise the world-famous mangoes of the place with their new Geographical Indicators (GI) status. Recently, in a Board meeting of the National Horticulture Board (NHB), Agriculture Minister Sharad …
Surinder Sud / Mumbai September 5, 2008, 3:13 IST The delay in the withdrawal of the monsoon is expected to benefit crops in the current kharif as well as in the ensuing rabi season. However, the projected increase in the intensity of rains in the north-eastern states may heighten the …
Chandigarh, August 25 The Haryana government has set up the Haryana Agriculture Development Agency (HADA) under the overall supervision and guidance of its board of patrons headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The agriculture minister, the power and irrigation minister and the chief secretary will be the members of …
V.K. Ramachandran New data show that, even over the last three years, the extent of land acquired by the State government for industrial and infrastructural purposes was a fraction of the agricultural land distributed under land reform. The primary point of distinction between Left-led and all other State governments in …
The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Agriculture in 1947 became a member of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) family in 1967. The headquarters was shifted from Mandapam Camp to Cochin in 1971. With the fast changing marine fisheries …
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (i) and (3) of Section 4 of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act, 2005, the Central Government established the Coastal Aquaculture Authority vide Notification No. S.O. 1803 (E) dated 22 December 2005. The head office of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority is located at …
The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is committed to the welfare and economic upliftment of the farming community in general. The Department formulates and implements National Policies and Programmes for achieving rapid growth and development through optimum utilization of country's land, water, soil and plant resources.
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (AH&D;) now renamed as Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying & Fisheries (DADF) is one of the Departments in the Ministry of Agriculture and came into existence w.e.f. 1st February, 1991. The Department is responsible for matters relating to livestock production, preservation, protection from …
