Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
President Pratibha Patil on Thursday constituted a Committee of Governors to recommend measures for enhancing productivity, profitability, sustainability and competitiveness of the agriculture sector in India. To be headed by Shivraj Patil, Governor of Punjab and Rajasthan, this committee will focus on rainfed area farming and work on areas like …
With the yield of rabi and kharif crops remaining stagnant for the past four years, there is a need for new variety of seeds to improve farming practices or for some seed treatment, experts told a farmers training cam here. “Wheat production was 164 lakh tonne last year but this …
This document contains the presentation by H. Pathak et al, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, on “Managing nitrogen for climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture” during Second National Research Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Centre for Science and Environment, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras on November …
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Karnataka have shown high-growth momentum in agricultural foodgrain production during the last five years and have the potential to contribute significantly to India’s foodgrain basket. The share of these low-foodgrain yielding states in the total foodgrain production of India have improved from 17.4 per cent to …
In stark variance to the prevailing optimistic scenario, Madhya Pradesh is likely to register a substantial decline in the yield of its mega crops — soybean and wheat — over the next two decades. The projection has been made in an Indo-UK collaborative research study, whose key findings were made …
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has laid emphasis on getting remunerative prices for agricultural produce to farmers in view of rising prices of farm inputs, such as seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and fuel, and called for bringing together the MGNREGS and farmers to help augment the agricultural output. Addressing a national …
A national convention of farmers and agricultural scientists to be organised here this Saturday will highlight innovative practices and scientific research and development in the agriculture sector for enhancing crop yield, improving seed varieties and scaling up soil productivity. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan …
The assurance of a high yield as compared to the traditional basmati varieties has seen a manifold rise in the area under PUSA 1121 in Punjab and Haryana. As a result, a bumper basmati crop is expected this year. The area under PUSA 1121 has risen sharply this year. In …
SRINAGAR, Sep 4: After the bum¬per crop of the previous year, this year horticulture production of Kash¬mir is witnessing a slight decline. Though in comparison to the pro¬duction of the last few years, this year’s production is normal, it is however showing a decline of 25-30 percent as against the …
Industry body CII on Sunday askedthe government to forma joint working group with private sector to suggest a roadmap for mechanisation of farms to boost agriculture productivity.
The Himalayas are warming at a rate higher than the global average. A recent study documents how this has affected cropping patterns and vegetation in the past 10 years. The questionnaire -based study examined changes people observed between the altitudes of 600 metres and 2,200 metres in the Himalayas. For …
Changes in the climate are already having an effect on crop yields -- but not yet a very big one THE problems climate change looks likely to bring in the future may increasingly be visible in the records of the past. Not just in the far-off ages of surging sea …
Punjab is heading towards record production of wheat this season. Reports emerging from Malwa, Majha and Doaba regions have clearly indicated that the state
Plans to set up 150 farmer-producer organisations in 11 states. The government is planning to provide market linkages for farmers growing pulses as part of a programme announced in the Budget to improve their production, as scarcity of this essential item was one of the major contributors to food inflation …
