Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Tuesday that hydro-meteorological calamities have damaged slightly more than 2 lakh hectares of the cropped area so far this year. In a written response to the Lok Sabha, Tomar stated that 66.55 lakh hectares of cropped land...
The Foundation for Development of Rural Value Chain (FDRVC), a non-profit organization (NGO) backed by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and Tata Trusts, and Innoterra, a Swiss-Indian AgriTech corporation, have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote and incubate...
Several farmers’ organizations, farmers’ welfare campaigners, and social workers have petitioned Supreme Court Justice NV Ramana to reopen the hearings on the three farm laws passed by Parliament in September last year. On January 19, an apex court bench led by then-Chief...
Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, told the Rajya Sabha on Friday that as many as 27 pesticides are being considered for the ban, and the government has formed an expert committee to look into the matter. List of pesticides Captan, Carbendazim...
The Indian Government has signed MoUs with five companies, including Microsoft India Pvt Ltd, Amazon Web Services, Star AgriBazaar, and Patanjali Organic Research Institute, to generate proof of concept (PoC) or evidence that a pilot project is achievable for developing a digital...
