Noida-based agritech company Leads Connect Services launched a pilot project called ‘SIGMAA’ with the help of 200 farmers in two villages in the Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. If the government is interested, the company plans to expand the project to the...
Monsoon-2022 will break the jinx over Karnataka and extend its reach to West Coast. The monsoon has not moved on from Karwar, Chickamagaluru, Bengaluru, and Dharmapuri, where it was a week ago, and has resulted in a 26% rainfall deficit over parts of the South Peninsula since arriving...
Organic farming is a special chapter in school textbooks for grades 9 through 12. In order to popularise organic and natural farming among the general public, the Gujarat government has taken a novel approach to raising awareness of chemical-free farming practices among students, parents...
Around 430 civil society from 69 countries urged the UN to cut ties with the pesticide industry. Around 430 civil society and indigenous peoples’ groups from 69 countries have petitioned the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to cut ties with the pesticide...
IMF welcomes India’s recent decision to relax its ban on wheat exports, and let some shipments. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is worried that some countries are restricting the export of food and fertiliser, which can make global prices go up and market volatility worse. The...
