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Agribusiness
Karat Farms raises pre-seed funding from Vriksh Impact Partners

Karat Farms raises pre-seed funding from Vriksh Impact Partners

Karat Farms, a Bengaluru-based smart kitchen garden company, has raised undisclosed...

States
Amid farmers’ agitation, UP to invest Rs 722 crore in agri start-ups

Amid farmers’ agitation, UP to invest Rs 722 crore in agri start-ups

Amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation, the UP govt has planned to invest more than...

Agribusiness
Samunnati launches Annadata Suraksha Abhiyaan to crowdsource funds and insure India’s smallholder farmers

Samunnati launches Annadata Suraksha Abhiyaan to crowdsource funds and insure India’s smallholder farmers

Samunnati, a specialized agri value chain enabler, launched the Annadata Suraksha...

International
Walnuts from Chile launched in India

Walnuts from Chile launched in India

ChileNut, the grower and exporter association of Chilean walnuts, with the support...

Cooperatives
Successful field trial of drone spraying of Nano Urea

Successful field trial of drone spraying of Nano Urea

In the presence of the Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Health & Family...

National
IAAG expresses serious concern on the delay in draft guidelines for genome-edited plants

IAAG expresses serious concern on the delay in draft guidelines for genome-edited plants

In an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the IAAG International has expressed...

National
Walmart, Flipkart mentor 2,500 MSMEs for digital retail foray

Walmart, Flipkart mentor 2,500 MSMEs for digital retail foray

Modern retail majors Walmart and Flipkart have empowered about 2,500 micro, small...

National
Seeking consent from states for trials of genome-edited plants may create hurdles in benefiting from new technology

Seeking consent from states for trials of genome-edited plants may create hurdles in benefiting from new technology

The process of seeking consent from the states for crop field trials may be implemented...

Cooperatives
Cooperatives in India can lead the world: ICA President Dr Ariel Guarco at NCDC

Cooperatives in India can lead the world: ICA President Dr Ariel Guarco at NCDC

Resilience shown by cooperatives across the world during the Covid-19 has demonstrated...

National
UP sugar mills still owe Rs 4,900 crore in farmers’ outstanding

UP sugar mills still owe Rs 4,900 crore in farmers’ outstanding

Even as the Uttar Pradesh government has raised the sugarcane purchase price to...

National
Bharat Bandh a complete success, say farmer organizations

Bharat Bandh a complete success, say farmer organizations

Farmer organizations have claimed that the Bharat Bandh called by the Samyukta Kisan...

National
Mission 2022: Yogi sweetens UP sugarcane price to Rs 350/quintal

Mission 2022: Yogi sweetens UP sugarcane price to Rs 350/quintal

Ahead of the high-octane 2022 assembly elections, the Yogi Adityanath-led UP govt...

Cooperatives
A new cooperative policy in the year 2022: Amit Shah

A new cooperative policy in the year 2022: Amit Shah

Inaugurating the country's first cooperative conference in New Delhi on September...

Opinion
National Monetisation Pipeline: Privatisation of govt-owned assets by another name

National Monetisation Pipeline: Privatisation of govt-owned assets by another name

Asset monetisation raises three sets of questions. First, are the assets identified...

Agribusiness
ACFI urges Govt to look into agrochem industry’s concern on Pesticide Management Bill

ACFI urges Govt to look into agrochem industry’s concern on Pesticide Management Bill

The Agro Chem Federation of India (ACFI), the apex body of the agrochem industry,...