Friday, 29 August 2025
Changes includes more scientific definition of transgenic variety, enhanced more farmer rights on seeds and enlisting the services of private firms for evaluating new varieties before seed registration. The National…
BY Gajendra Singh, Former Deputy Director General (Engineering), ICAR, New Delhi, Founder Vice Chancellor, Doon University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand The first tractor to India was brought in 1914.There were only…
BY Prof. K C Bansal Sr. Fellow, TERI-Deakin Nano-Biotechnology Centre, The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) Ever since the domestication of plants 10,000 years ago, the use of plant genetic…
BY Dr Ram Kaundinya, Director General, Dr Ratna Kumria, Director of Biotechnology, Federation of Seed Industry of India The challenges of meeting the food security and nutritional security of…
The adoption rates of farm equipment have increased as indicated by the sale of tractors and the rise in farm power availability (FPA) in the recent past. According…
Arize rice has helped rice farmers increase their resilience through higher farm incomes and adoption of sustainable rice farming In 2019, Arize completed 25 successful years of partnering with…
Central government will promote farm machinery to achieve diverse utilisation of mechanisation FICCI, jointly with Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare has organized a three day exhibition ‘EIMA AGRIMACH 2019’…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are conducting pivotal research that will help keep soil healthy now and into the future. As the global…
By K. R. Kranthi International Cotton Advisory Committee, Washington DC India has enormous potential for cotton farming. Given the ideal climatic conditions and the natural sources, doubling…
Company expanding its global fungicide portfolio Gowan Crop Protection Limited, an affiliate of Gowan Company, L.L.C., announced that it has entered into agreements with Bayer AG to acquire rights to…
Dr C. D. Mayee Former Chairman, Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ASRB-ICAR), New Delhi Indian Agriculture is a vital sector of the national economy with nearly…
UPL Limited (“UPL”), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% shares of Yoloo (Laoting) Bio-technology Co.Ltd. (“Laoting Yoloo”), an agrochemical company based in Heibei Province, China, UPL Limited…
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and MSME Nitin Gadkari stressed on encouraging the use of bio fuels such as ethanol that can be procured from bamboo oil…
Pashya Patel, chairman of Maharashtra Commission of Agriculture cost and prices shares his views on encouraging processing industry in tribal and rural agriculture area. How agriculture produce can be…
