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New Delhi, Oct 1 (PTI) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a six-year central scheme aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in pulses production, with a financial outlay of Rs 11,440 crore. The "Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses", approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be for the period from 2025-26 to 2030-31. The mission follows Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement in the 2025-26 Budget. The mission will particularly focus on increasing ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, announced the establishment of a dedicated team within the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) focused on sugarcane research and policy making in the country. "This special team will concentrate on sugarcane research and related policies," said Chouhan. He noted that sugarcane variety 238 has demonstrated good sugar content but is susceptible to red rot disease. Chouhan emphasized the necessity of ...Read More >
The National Consultation on the Sustainable Sugarcane Economy, organised by the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research (IISR) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), held at AP Shinde Hall, National Agricultural Science Complex, New Delhi, brought out a sharp contrast between scientific priorities and farmers' immediate concerns. While researchers and industry leaders emphasised varietal seed development, crop diversification and mechanisation, farmers from major sugarcane prod ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister Suresh Gopi stirred controversy on Tuesday by claiming that those elected by "corpses" are now serving the state. Speaking at a neighbourhood meet called "Kalungu" in Idukki district, he alleged that cadavers from 25 years ago had cast votes in Kerala elections. Media reports have previously highlighted incidents of deceased voters being listed as active in Kerala's voter list, he said, while indirectly referring to the accusations of "scientific rigging " aga ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said that a dedicated team will be set up within the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for sugarcane research in the country. This team will also work on the sugarcane policy. The Minister made this announcement while addressing a national discussion on the sugarcane economy, organised by Rural Voice and the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories in collaboration with ICAR. C ...Read More >
The Tripura government has planned to bring around 7,000 hectares of wasteland under oil palm cultivation by the 2026-27 financial year (FY'27), an official said on Friday. Initially, the Centre had identified 7,000 hectares for oil palm cultivation in the state but the ICAR-Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research reassessment committee classified 146,000 hectares as a potential area for such farming in 2020 through digital mapping. "Under the National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), t ...Read More >
Koraput, Dec 6 (PTI) Thirty-six-year-old Raimati Gheuria, a tribal woman from Odisha's Koraput district who has conserved 72 varieties of traditional rice and 30 types of millet has been conferred with an honorary doctorate by Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) for her remarkable contributions to agriculture. President Droupadi Murmu conferred the honorary doctorate to Raimati at the 40th Convocation of OUAT on Thursday. Raimati of Nuaguda village in Koraput district, affec ...Read More >
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