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Rural Development: No Increase in MGNREGA Budget, Additional houses under PM Awas

Rural Development: No Increase in MGNREGA Budget, Additional houses under PM Awas

Presenting the Union Budget 2024-25, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced...

Union budget focuses on employment and skilling

Union budget focuses on employment and skilling

Five schemes have been announced to provide employment and skills to the youth in...

Economic Survey: Agriculture to Drive India's Economic Growth

Economic Survey: Agriculture to Drive India's Economic Growth

The Economic Survey 2023-24 can be called an honest confession along with an attempt...

AFFI Calls for Halt to Corporatization and Demands 100 percent Import Duty on Apples

AFFI Calls for Halt to Corporatization and Demands 100 percent Import Duty on Apples

The Apple Farmers Federation of India (AFFI) concluded a two-day meeting in Kulgam,...

Government May Announce Cotton Mission in Budget 2024-25

Government May Announce Cotton Mission in Budget 2024-25

The central government is anticipated to announce the Cotton Mission in the budget...

Kharif Crops Sown in 64% area; Significant Progress in Pulses and Oilseeds but Area of Coarse Grains Decline

Kharif Crops Sown in 64% area; Significant Progress in Pulses and Oilseeds but Area of Coarse Grains Decline

As of July 19, sixty four percent of the sowing of Kharif crops has been completed...

Enhance market linkage and incentivise investment is the demand from Industry for Agriculture in the Budget

Enhance market linkage and incentivise investment is the demand from Industry for Agriculture in the Budget

Government should increase market linkages and incentivise investment in the agriculture...

Protest against disparity in pay and service conditions of KVK staff across the nation

Protest against disparity in pay and service conditions of KVK staff across the nation

A day-long protest programme was held at all KVKs across the nation, coinciding...

Niti Aayog Reconstituted; No Change in Vice Chairman and Full-Time Members, Ministers from Allied Parties Included

Niti Aayog Reconstituted; No Change in Vice Chairman and Full-Time Members, Ministers from Allied Parties Included

Economist Suman K. Bery will remain the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, and scientist...

Shivraj Singh Chouhan asked ICAR to send scientists to farmers' fields

Shivraj Singh Chouhan asked ICAR to send scientists to farmers' fields

Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated...

Corteva Agriscience Promotes DSR Technology for Sustainable Farming in India

Corteva Agriscience Promotes DSR Technology for Sustainable Farming in India

Corteva Agriscience is promoting Direct Seeded Rice to help farmers adopt sustainable...

More than 52% of Kharif crop sowing completed, jump in pulses and oilseed cultivation

More than 52% of Kharif crop sowing completed, jump in pulses and oilseed cultivation

The area sown with paddy has reached 115.64 lakh hectares, up from 95.78 lakh hectares...

Budget 2024: FICCI urges amendments in Sec 194-O for the benefit of farmers and FPOs

Budget 2024: FICCI urges amendments in Sec 194-O for the benefit of farmers and FPOs

Industry chamber FICCI has urged the central government to make some amendments...

British Council and HSBC India Launch Initiative to Equip Indian Youth with Climate Resilience Skills

British Council and HSBC India Launch Initiative to Equip Indian Youth with Climate Resilience Skills

The British Council and HSBC India launched the "Climate Skills: Seeds for Transition...

Import price of DAP reaches $560, may affect availability in Rabi if import does not pick up pace

Import price of DAP reaches $560, may affect availability in Rabi if import does not pick up pace

In the past two months, DAP prices have increased from $528 per tonne to $560 per...

India Produces 195 Lakh Tonnes of Sugar by January 31, ISMA Flags Rising Cane Arrears

As on 31 January 2026, all-India sugar production has reached 195.03 lakh tonnes, compared to 164.79 lakh tonnes during the corresponding...

Agribusiness

India-EU FTA: Market Access to Premium European Products Poses Challenges for Indian Agriculture

The India–EU Free Trade Agreement promises economic gains but will significantly impact agriculture. While staples are excluded, reduced...

Opinion

Seeds Bill 2025: Sowing Hopes, Raising Concerns

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

National

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