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R&D

Government to set up cold storage under Horticulture Mission

Under the MIDH, government had allocated Rs. 31.50 crore to northeast state of Nagaland in 2016-17; Rs. 41.50 crore in 2017-18 & Rs. 32.00 crore in 2018-19. The Department of…

Dwarikesh Sugar Industries launches 100 KLPD ethanol plant in Uttar Pradesh

The distillery capacity expansion will increase Dwarikesh Sugar’s ethanol production and strengthen forward integration    India’s sugar firm, Dwarikesh Sugar Industries Ltd has commissioned a new 100 kilo litre per…

ICAR organises International conference on ’Extension for strengthening Agricultural Research and Development’

International conference was organised for a purposeful dialogue for getting the deeper insights into the current dynamics and for drawing the future roadmap for the agricultural extension in the country.…

Utkal Tubers India Pvt Ltd to raise $5 million to increase potato seed output

Utkal plans to increase the production by investing in research and development, introducing new high-quality proprietary varieties of seeds    Bengaluru-based Utkal Tubers India Pvt Ltd, a potato seed producer,…

Golden Rice gets FPP approval from Bureau of Plant Industry

The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry has granted a biosafety permit for direct utilization of vitamin A-enriched rice variety – Golden Rice as food & feed or for…

Sonalika launches Chhatrapati Tractor in Maharashtra  

Sonalika Tractors re-launched the specially designed Chhatrapati tractor in Kisan Pune Mela for farmers of Maharashtra.       The company also launched tractors from its outperforming Sikander Series, Rx…

ADAMA & RiceTec Launches Herbicide-Tolerant Technology  

The Max-Ace technology gives the rice enhanced tolerance to ’HighCard’ herbicide.   The Max-Ace technology takes gives the rice enhanced tolerance to HighCard herbicide. HighCard is a unique and safe…

IBM introduces GRAF forecasting system for agri-industry and farmers

GRAF can help in bridging the gap between Indian forecasting system & global models.       IBM has introduced a global high-resolution atmospheric forecasting system – IBM GRAF (Global…

Punjab agri-varsity and California University inks MoU for co-operation in agri-bussiness

Under the MoU, the universities will facilitate exchange of scientists and technologists, exchange of research material, scientific literature, methodology and also exchange of scientific equipment.    Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)…

SPOWDI launches ‘Smart Farming’ , sustainable solution to save water in India

SPOWDI smart farming and Jain Irrigation signed a MoU for an innovative & sustainable solution to save water.    Swedish Company, SPOWDI (Solar Powered Water distribution) and EMMVEE, a leading…

Development of Agricultural Mechanization in India and Future Prospects  

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…

  Maharashtra to emerge as an organic cotton hotspot

  The second edition of Cotton Trailblazers, an International convening held in Nagpur to celebrate organic cotton in India. It has highlighted Maharashtra as a potential hotspot for organic cotton cultivation…

Doubling farmers’ income – Feasibility through Collective Experience

BY  Dr R S Deshpande Former Director and National Fellow Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru The Indian economy and agriculture sector picked up from the low of 1965-66…

Germplasm to genome engineering – the new route for sustainable green revolution

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…

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