by Spectrum | Jun 14, 2020 | Agriculture
According to the Department of Agriculture Research and Education (DARE), conservation of water using scientific techniques in the agriculture sector have the potential to save over 30 per cent of water and 25 per cent of fertilisers in the country. Considering the...
by Spectrum | Jun 14, 2020 | Agriculture
The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) has developed a training manual for a certificate course on Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to climate change (SLACC). It was reported in June 2019 that the course is being provided by the...
by Spectrum | Jun 14, 2020 | Agriculture
The very mention of olives brings to the mind the fact that it is a tree of Mediterranean origin grown widely in countries like Spain and Italy. But the olive trees have now come to bloom in Rajasthan’s Thar desert, as per a news report of September 2019. It all began...
by Spectrum | Jun 13, 2020 | Agriculture
A couple of projects undertaken in Himachal Pradesh, with funds from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to transform the lives of the farmers and rural women have resulted in increase in farm yields and farmers’ incomes, restoration of degraded...
by Spectrum | Jun 13, 2020 | Agriculture
According to the first advance estimate, released by the agricultural ministry in September 2019, the country’s food grain production during the rain-fed kharif season is estimated at 140.57 million tonnes (mt) in 2019-20, 0.8 per cent lower than the total output...
by Spectrum | Jun 13, 2020 | Agriculture
On August 19, 2019, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) called for conversion of rice fallow lands for the production of pulses to facilitate better income for farmers. As per the commission, about 8.5 million hectares (mha) of rice fallows in the...
