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AgroPolicy

Fertilizer ministry launches home delivery of fertilizers for farmers

DV Sadananda has launched POS 3.1 software, SMS gateway & home delivery of fertilizers for farmers in Andhra Pradesh Indian chemicals & fertilizers minister DV Sadananda Gowda has recently announced…

Farm Bills passed in Parliament to benefit farmers: Finance Min

The Bills were needed to complete reforms in the agriculture sector that have been due for the past 30 years Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance, GoI recently said that the…

ICAR- Groundnut Research, Junagadh transfers ‘NutMagic Technology’ to licensee

Aimed at providing low cost bio fertilizer technology and reducing input costs The ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, Junagadh, Gujarat virtually inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Om Laboratories,…

Assam Govt launches ‘Kisan Rath’ app to promote buyer-seller network

The app would connect more than 10,000 farmers, 50 FPOs and 1,000 verified agricultural traders.     Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched a mobile app to facilitate timely sale of…

Indian Cotton gets new brand & logo on 2nd World Cotton Day

Now India’s premium cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the world cotton trade Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of Textiles and Women & Child Development launched the first…

IRRI and Vietnam join hands for collaborative rice research

It will promote CGIAR platform to develop an agriculture system that enhances farmers’ livelihoods and mitigates the impact of climate change     Top officials of Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture…

CIBA outsources phages production to Chennai based firm

Phage therapy is a safe alternative to tackle the antimicrobial resistance Central Institute of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIBA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s Salem…

IIT Kharagpur develops Robotic system for plant disease identification

The device can detect the plant diseases using camera and image analysis      The Govt of India has been taking several measures and a significant drive towards this end is…

Researchers discover new disease affecting maize

The study revealed that some of these strains are highly aggressive with a cob infestation of 95 to 100 % Researchers at the University of Göttingen, Germany have recently discovered…

ICAR holds ‘Sensor and Sensing for Precision Agriculture’ session

Aims to enhance farm productivity A session entitled ‘Sensors and Sensing for Precision Agriculture’ was organized under ‘Precision Agriculture’ by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) with total of…

ICBC organizes two-day India-Canada Agri-Tech Virtual Seminar

Organised by Indo-Canadian Business Chamber in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry, Ministry of External Affairs of India Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development,…

Centre buys 5.73 lakh tones of paddy at MSP

Besides paddy, cotton procurement has also begun from October 1 The Centre on recently stated that 5.73 lakh tonne of paddy worth Rs 1,082.46 crore has been purchased at the…

Chhattisgarh Agri varsity develops soil-testing kit for farmers

With the IGKV’s kit, farmers will be able to test nutritional content of soil on their land.  The Raipur-based Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) has developed a portable soil testing…

Study reveals, hand pollination increases cocoa yield & farmer income

The study was published in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. A research team from the University of Göttingen, Germany has recently investigated the relative importance of the use of…

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