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Jewar airport likely to get required land by end July

Jewar airport likely to get required land by end July

With the 2022 UP assembly elections barely seven months away, the state government...

Desi start-up for blue-collar workers ‘hits’ Nasdaq Tower

Desi start-up for blue-collar workers ‘hits’ Nasdaq Tower

Incubated by IIT Kanpur’s Start-up Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC), WUS...

Need for resilient agriculture to tackle the uncertainties of the future

Need for resilient agriculture to tackle the uncertainties of the future

Several rural resources are being affected due to unforeseen circumstances and some...

Electricity Act amendment will hamper the revival of the domestic economy

Electricity Act amendment will hamper the revival of the domestic economy

The public sector power engineers have warned that the proposed amendment to the...

PIL in Allahabad High Court on sugarcane arrears; state to reply in four weeks

PIL in Allahabad High Court on sugarcane arrears; state to reply in four weeks

A PIL regarding the issue of non-payment of money to sugarcane farmers and revision...

Break in monsoon activity burdensome on farmers; IMD ignored negative IOD in its forecast

Break in monsoon activity burdensome on farmers; IMD ignored negative IOD in its forecast

Owing to a break in the monsoon activity, there has been 11.3 per cent less rainfall...

Milk prices go up by Rs 2 per litre; increasing costs for the dairy and the farmers the main reason

Milk prices go up by Rs 2 per litre; increasing costs for the dairy and the farmers the main reason

Amul has decided to revise the milk prices by Rs 2 per litre. The prices of all...

DR R S Paroda gives reasoning for fixing MSP at C2 cost plus 50 per cent

DR R S Paroda gives reasoning for fixing MSP at C2 cost plus 50 per cent

Dr. R.S. Paroda, former DG, Indian Council for Agricultural Research(ICAR) and Chairman,...

Memorandum to the President about farmers’ anguish and indignation

Memorandum to the President about farmers’ anguish and indignation

On June 26, which marked the completion of seven months of the farmers’ protest...

UP govt silent on interest on arrear payments; will SC decide sugarcane farmers’ rights?

UP govt silent on interest on arrear payments; will SC decide sugarcane farmers’ rights?

Legally, the calculation of arrears starts 14 days after cane supply because farmers...

NCDC celebrates International Yoga Day

NCDC celebrates International Yoga Day

The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) organized an online event...

Pandemic fails to dampen India’s sugar consumption pattern

Pandemic fails to dampen India’s sugar consumption pattern

The pandemic-induced lockdown has failed to dampen the sugar consumption pattern...

Increasing inflation may aggravate farmers’ troubles; apprehensions of a fall in demand

Increasing inflation may aggravate farmers’ troubles; apprehensions of a fall in demand

While increasing inflation has created troubles on the economic front for the common...

Dr R S Sodhi, Managing Director,  Amul receives APO regional award as Asia Pacific Productivity Champion

Dr R S Sodhi, Managing Director, Amul receives APO regional award as Asia Pacific Productivity Champion

Dr Sodhi is the first person in the last 20 years from India to receive the award....

Cabinet approves MSP for Kharif Crops for 2021-22

Cabinet approves MSP for Kharif Crops for 2021-22

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

O2 crisis: IIT Kanpur to set up 50 oxygen plants

O2 crisis: IIT Kanpur to set up 50 oxygen plants

Amid high demand for liquid medical oxygen (LMO) by Covid-19 patients, Indian Institute...

Seeds Bill 2025: Sowing Hopes, Raising Concerns

Why the draft Seeds Bill 2025 has triggered debate among scientists, policymakers and farmers

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Fasal Unveils ‘FasalJet’ and ‘FasalJet Pro’ for On-Farm Tech Solutions

FasalJet and FasalJet Pro were designed to address this need for irrigation and fertigation automation, extending the platform from...

Agritech

Economic Survey Calls for Agri Reforms, Urea Price Hike to Fix Fertilizer Imbalance

The Economic Survey 2025–26 calls for agricultural reforms, warning that fertilizer imbalance has reached alarming levels and is damaging...

National

Agritech Startup KhetiBuddy Launches SaaS Platform for Agri-Food Businesses

Verdnt functions as an enterprise data backbone that unifies agronomy, operations, and sustainability workflows. By bringing farm...

Agri Start-Ups

Economic Survey Flags Agriculture-Led Stability, Warns Rural Incomes Vulnerable to Global Shocks and State Fiscal Choices

The Survey said agriculture continued to play a crucial counter-cyclical role, cushioning the economy amid geopolitical shocks and...

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Digit Insurance Pays Moisture Index-Based Parametric Insurance Claims to Rajasthan Farmers

The claim has been paid to farmers in over 30 villages in Tonk, as the moisture-based parametric cover based on Water Balance Index...

Agribusiness