by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 10, 2021 | Agriculture
A mega food park (MFP) was inaugurated by the the Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar at Phagwara in Kapurthala District of Punjab on November 24, 2020. This MFP has...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 26, 2020 | Agriculture
The Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) of India, on November 23, 2020, revealed during ‘FarmMech 2020’, a virtual meeting on farm digitisation and mechanisation, that India has become a net exporter of agricultural machinery (agri-machinery) for various major...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 14, 2020 | Agriculture
As reported on October 31, 2020, scientists from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) — Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) based in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh announced that they had planted 800 saplings of Ferula asafoetida...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 14, 2020 | Agriculture
As per the news reports in October 2020, India’s production of wheat this year remained around 107.59 million tonnes (mt). Some 38.99 mt or 36 per cent of this crop was bought by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and State government agencies in April-June, when the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 1, 2020 | Agriculture
As reported on October 13, 2020, the viral lumpy skin disease (LSD) has spread to cattle and buffalo in about a dozen big Indian states triggering concerns among thousands of dairy farmers. However, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) sees no significant...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 1, 2020 | Agriculture
Introduction: As per media reports, dated May 9, 2020, scientists at the ‘Locust Warning Organisation’ (LWO) observed groups of grasshoppers at Sri Ganganagar and Jaisalmer districts of Rajasthan though in India, locusts normally arrive during July-October. These...
