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Decision to impose 20 per cent export duty on non-Basmati rice to rein in domestic prices
Two weeks after releasing figures for record rice production and the very next day...
PM Modi to inaugurate IDF WDS 2022 on Sep 12; summit in India 48 years after International Dairy Congress
The four-day long IDF WDS 22 assumes significance as a dominant majority of over...
India ranks 132 on HDI as global development stalls
Human Development — a measure of a nation’s health, education, and average income...
Shifting to plant-based foods can reverse climate catastrophe
A plant-based diet offers several advantages, prominent being lowering the risk...
Vaccination against Lumpy Skin Disease at sluggish pace as only goat pox vaccine allowed
Scientists say that the country requires about 200mn doses of vaccine and hence...
Sonjoy Mohanty to be new ISMA DG
The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), the apex body of private sugar mills...
Established and existing procedure for fertilizer registration followed in approval to nano urea: Govt
The Union Government has said that the established and existing procedure for the...
Commercial production of indigenous vaccine developed by ICAR that provides complete protection against LSD to start in 4-5 months
The commercial production of the indigenous Lumpi-ProVacInd vaccine developed by...
12 states affected by Lumpy Skin Disease, about 50,000 cattle dead, but states yet to declare it pandemic
Cattle farmers in the country are badly affected by Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). According...
World’s scientists discuss India’s efforts to achieve SDGs by 2030
A two-day National Symposium was organized on ‘Food, Nutrition, and Environmental...
Bayer to scale up Sahbhaagi programme to build evolving ecosystem for micro-entrepreneurs while transforming Indian agriculture
The Bayer Sahbhaagi Program was launched in 2019 and today it has more than 4,000...
GDP for Q1 2022-23 grows by 13.5 per cent, GVA for agriculture by 4.5 per cent
According to the provisional estimates released by the NSO on August 31, the GDP...
Prof. Abhijit Sen, one of India’s foremost experts on agriculture and rural economy, is no more
Sen was a member of the Planning Commission from 2004 to 2014 during the UPA government....
Global prices of DAP come down to $860; phosphoric acid prices likely to touch $1,500
Several companies, including OCP, the Moroccan company that determines the price...
Govt prohibits wheat flour export
The Central Government has prohibited the export of wheat or meslin flour (atta),...
Revised specifications to be finalized in 30 days for contracts of January 2023 and thereafter in cotton futures trading
The Cotton Product Advisory Committee of the Exchange will be expanded such that...
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India’s Wheat and Rice Output Seen Stable; Erratic Monsoon Hits Corn, Oilseeds and Cotton: USDA
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Mother Dairy and Amul Raise Milk Prices by Up to Rs 6 per Litre
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India’s Wheat Acreage May Set Record, But Weather Remains Key to Output: FAO
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