ICAR-IARI develops chickpea variety using Genomic technique that has drought tolerant and high yielding The government’s research groups, ICAR and IARI, have come up with a chickpea variety called ‘Pusa JG 16’ that can handle drought and could help increase chickpea...
RSS affiliate BKS demands to increase PM-Kisan incentive of ₹6,000/yr The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), a farmers’ group that is part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has asked for ‘profitable prices’ for crops, the end of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on all...
36% farmers in Telangana are tenant farmers, and 10% of them are women A survey by the Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) found that as many as 36% of farmers in Telangana are tenant farmers and that about 10% of them are women. RSV is a group of farmers’ groups, non-government...
Govt to decide if it wants to bring back open market sale scheme in Jan 2023 The Indian government will decide next month if it wants to bring back the open market sale scheme (OMSS) for wheat from January to March or if it wants to release some wheat through the public distribution...
India running shortage of green, dry fodder by 23.4% says minster Rupala According to the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy, the country is short on dry fodder by 23.4%. In a reply to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Parshottam Rupala said that the Indian Grassland and...
