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How farmers can increase their income by using IoT in agriculture

How farmers can increase their income by using IoT in agriculture

In IoT-based smart agriculture, farmers may easily get information about light,...

Testing milk adulteration at Rs 10 with a strip developed by NDRI, Karnal

Testing milk adulteration at Rs 10 with a strip developed by NDRI, Karnal

New methods are being devised to increase the SNF content and produce synthetic...

Mankind Pharma forays into agritech with the launch of Mankind Agritech

Mankind Pharma forays into agritech with the launch of Mankind Agritech

Mankind Pharma, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in India, has announced...

Dhanuka Group inks MoU with Jaipur-based SKN Agriculture University

Dhanuka Group inks MoU with Jaipur-based SKN Agriculture University

The Dhanuka Group signed an MoU with Sri Karan Narendra (SKN) Agriculture University,...

SLCM Group receives patent for its ‘Agri Reach’ technology platform in the warehousing segment

SLCM Group receives patent for its ‘Agri Reach’ technology platform in the warehousing segment

SLCM’s proprietary centralized real-time process management system ‘Agri Reach’...

Retractable-roof polyhouse to give better crop protection, higher yields

Retractable-roof polyhouse to give better crop protection, higher yields

A retractable-roof polyhouse has a roof that can be opened and closed, partially...

How small distillation units benefit aromatic plant farmers

How small distillation units benefit aromatic plant farmers

The small distillation unit with 500 kg tank capacity costs about Rs 2.5 lakh while...

Bio-fertilizers blue-green algae and Azolla better nitrogen substitutes for crops

Bio-fertilizers blue-green algae and Azolla better nitrogen substitutes for crops

Bio-fertilizers blue-green algae and Azolla fix the atmospheric nitrogen in the...

IIT Kanpur develops nanotech to protect rice crop

IIT Kanpur develops nanotech to protect rice crop

A team of IIT Kanpur researchers has developed a novel nanoparticle-based BioDCM...

Cargill opens first food innovation centre in India

Cargill opens first food innovation centre in India

Ramping up its R&D focus, Cargill has opened the Cargill Innovation Center in Gurugram...

We need to make the youth “technology agents”: RS Paroda

We need to make the youth “technology agents”: RS Paroda

The second session of the Rural Voice Agriculture Conclave and NEDAC Awards 2021...

IIT Kanpur develops app-based soil testing device

IIT Kanpur develops app-based soil testing device

IIT Kanpur has developed a mobile-app-based soil testing device to potentially help...

Bayer initiates drone trials in Hyderabad

Bayer initiates drone trials in Hyderabad

Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of...

Banana plant technology saving spice crop in Rajasthan

Banana plant technology saving spice crop in Rajasthan

In a sample case, a crop technology, ICAR-FUSICONT, developed in a Lucknow lab to...

Hydroponics: A huge leap towards practical, economical and sustainable farming

Hydroponics: A huge leap towards practical, economical and sustainable farming

Hydroponics allows you to take a measured leap towards technically advanced, convenient,...

Onato raises $2.2 mn in seed round led by Vertex Ventures and Omnivore

Onato raises $2.2 mn in seed round led by Vertex Ventures and Omnivore

Onato, a data-driven B2B platform for fresh produce, has announced a seed financing...

PM Modi Releases 23rd PM-KISAN Installment; Rs 18,880 Crore Transferred to 9.44 Crore Farmers

The 23rd instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) was disbursed on Saturday at Tarakeswar, Hooghly, West Bengal....

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Centre Raises Onion Procurement Price for Buffer Stock to Rs 1,730 per Quintal

The central government has raised the onion procurement price under its buffer stock scheme from Rs 1,650 to Rs 1,730 per quintal,...

National

Agriculture Amid Mounting Challenges

The prospect of a weak monsoon, rising oil and fertilizer prices, and subdued agricultural commodity prices has increased pressure...

Opinion

Dehradun’s Premium Litchi Enters European Market as APEDA Facilitates First Consignment to Italy

APEDA facilitated the first export consignment of fresh litchi from Dehradun to Italy. This milestone marks the entry of Uttarakhand's...

International

Three Indians Named Among Top Agri-food Pioneers 2026 by World Food Prize Foundation

Three Indian scientists, Dr Yashpal Saharawat, Dr Anandharamakrishnan Chinnaswamy and Dr Rajeev Varshney, have been named among the...

International

Import of Urea Gives Headache to Government

As war in West Asia disrupts fertilizer and LNG supplies, India’s dependence on imported urea is emerging as a major threat to food...

Opinion