Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday that there is a need to bring about a revolution in food processing industry in the country through a public-private partnership (PPP mode). Addressing the Webinar on Budget Provisions for the Agricultural Sector, he highlighted the different...
Pakistan may allow imports of cotton from India through the land route as the prospects for a gradual re-establishment of bilateral trade relationships have brightened after the new ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) as per the media report on Sunday. Citing a source in...
Worries about farmers growing unauthorised and illegal genetically modified (GM) cottonseed known as Bollgard-III or ‘Bt-3′ are haunting the seed industry and farmers’ leaders as cottonseed units set up for the Kharif season to begin in month of June. People in the...
The Hyderabad-headquartered Kaveri Seeds Company has said that it has become the world’s first seed producer with more than one lakh acre under seed production in a country. The vast majority of the newly acquired seed production area is focused to the non-cotton segment and mainly...
Approximately 66 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) supported by the Government of Karnataka (GoK) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) were part of the Unified Market Platform (UMP) of Rashtriya e-Market Services (ReMS). As a result, 44,000 traders...
