Tag: Virendra Singh Rawat

States
Global fertilizer price rise: UP sugar mills to manufacture potash

Global fertilizer price rise: UP sugar mills to manufacture potash

Since India imports a large quantity of potash, which is used as soil nutrient and...

States
UP wheat procurement slumps to 332,000 tonnes vis-à-vis 6 MT target

UP wheat procurement slumps to 332,000 tonnes vis-à-vis 6 MT target

Last year, the state government and FCI procurement centres had breached the 5 MT...

Agritech
Make in India: IIT Kanpur develops low-cost E. coli testing kit

Make in India: IIT Kanpur develops low-cost E. coli testing kit

The kit is easy to use, and false-positive results are rare as it is specific to...

States
Yogi tasks officials with trillion-dollar economy plan

Yogi tasks officials with trillion-dollar economy plan

Presiding over a high-level meeting, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has underlined...

States
Turmeric to change fortunes of farmers in Kushinagar

Turmeric to change fortunes of farmers in Kushinagar

The state government of UP is expected to declare turmeric as the one district one...

National
Sugar export contracts inching to 10 MT

Sugar export contracts inching to 10 MT

Considering an opening stock of about 8.2 MT as of Oct 1, 2021, domestic consumption...

Agritech
IIT Kanpur to mentor new-age 5G, 6G workforce

IIT Kanpur to mentor new-age 5G, 6G workforce

The 5G and 6G technologies will have the potential to employ 22mn skilled workers...

States
UP orders private power plants not to import coal

UP orders private power plants not to import coal

The state government does not want to hike energy prices and stoke anger among the...

States
Yogi 2.0 boosting horticultural crops to spur farm income

Yogi 2.0 boosting horticultural crops to spur farm income

The UP government will set up centres of excellence (CoEs) and mini-CoEs/hi-tech...

States
UP doles out 20mn tonnes of foodgrain during pandemic

UP doles out 20mn tonnes of foodgrain during pandemic

The free foodgrain was meant to ensure food security for the needy during the pandemic...

Agritech
IIT Kanpur partners Singapore to enrich Indian start-up ecosystem

IIT Kanpur partners Singapore to enrich Indian start-up ecosystem

According to IIT Kanpur, the delegation comprises 16 stellar start-ups representing...

States
UP looking to double maize output in 5 years

UP looking to double maize output in 5 years

To boost the rural economy, the UP government is targeting almost double the maize...

States
Yogi 2.0 relaxes global bidding deadline for trillion-dollar blueprint

Yogi 2.0 relaxes global bidding deadline for trillion-dollar blueprint

The state planning department is the nodal agency for conducting the e-bidding process...

States
Coal crisis: UP plans to import 1.9 MT of coal worth Rs 2,900 crore

Coal crisis: UP plans to import 1.9 MT of coal worth Rs 2,900 crore

Against a daily coal requirement of 87,900 tonnes, UPRVUN is getting 30 per cent...

States
Coal crisis: UP energy watchdog frowns upon coal import tender

Coal crisis: UP energy watchdog frowns upon coal import tender

UPERC secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh has notified the UPRVUN chairman, seeking an...

National
Indonesia, Bangladesh top export destinations for Indian sugar

Indonesia, Bangladesh top export destinations for Indian sugar

ISMA said around 8 MT of sugar export has been contracted so far, of which nearly...