India’s agricultural exports have fallen to USD 33.87 billion in 2016-17 as compared to USD 43.23 billion in 2013-14. Rajesh Aggarwal writes on how an export driven agricultural growth can double the farmers’ income
Industry
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today dedicated the Mohanpura Irrigation Project to the nation. This project will facilitate irrigation of agricultural land in Rajgarh district
Future Market Insights indicates that in India, rapidly growing awareness since the recent past has caused sales of solar pumps to surge and agricultural sector has now become the top consumer of solar pumps
The Middle East and North Africa market for drip irrigation systems is expected to exhibit a vigorous growth in the forthcoming years
Bayer is a German stock corporation with competencies in the areas of healthcare and agriculture while Monsanto is a global supplier of agricultural products like seeds, biotechnology traits, and herbicides
News
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh met his Nepalese counterpart Chakra Pani Khanal, Minister for Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives in New Delhi on Tues
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Nitin Gadkari released a book ‘Water productivity mapping of major Indian crops’ published by National Bank for Agricul
The Standing Finance Committee of Ministry of Shipping has cleared a project for setting up an exclusive, fully mechanised handling facility for fertiliser cargo at Kandla Port.
CLFMA organised its first “CFO Forum” in association with NCDEX IPFT for senior-level professionals from various sub-sectors of livestock industry such as poultry, dairy, feed and aquaculture.
The Government of India and the World Bank today signed a US$500 million loan agreement to provide additional financing for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) Rural Roads Project, impleme
Agriculture
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India’s agricultural exports have fallen to USD 33.87 billion in 2016-17 as compared to USD 43.23 billion in 2013-14. Rajesh Aggarwal writes on how an export driven agricultural growth can double the farmers’ income
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Future Market Insights indicates that in India, rapidly growing awareness since the recent past has caused sales of solar pumps to surge and agricultural sector has now become the top consumer of solar pumps
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The Middle East and North Africa market for drip irrigation systems is expected to exhibit a vigorous growth in the forthcoming years
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Bayer is a German stock corporation with competencies in the areas of healthcare and agriculture while Monsanto is a global supplier of agricultural products like seeds, biotechnology traits, and herbicides
NIFTEM has the potential to become the Harvard for food processing technology and management sector in India. Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said
Policy
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today dedicated the Mohanpura Irrigation Project to the nation. This project will facilitate irrigation of agricultural land in Rajgarh district
In order to improve the problem of liquidity of sugar mills resulting in accumulation of huge sugarcane price arrears of farmers, the Union Cabinet has approved a bailout package with amounting Rs. 7000 crore
B Soundararajan, Chairman, CLFMA of India said, nutritional security must be given top priority by the policy makers beyond just increasing food production and the livestock sector
Globally, biofuels have caught the attention in last decade and it is imperative to keep up with the pace of developments in the field of biofuels
The government would be coming out with an export policy for agro and other such products and asked all the states to send their inputs to the Centre as the draft export policy has been put in public domain already
Interviews
LIXIL launched, easy to maintain, water saving and affordable SATO toilets for India’s rural market. Within six months, 35,000 rural households are using them
Narayanan Rajagopalan, President of LaMarca Group, in May 2016 launched a telecom company MarcaTel, which aims at providing India’s first Wi-Fi based Tele Connectivity Network. Narayanan tells BK Jha about the Company’s progress and plans.
In public-private-partnership, vocational training and skill development have been core functions of AISECT since its inception.
Global Rajasthan Agritech Meet (GRAM) was organised in Udaipur recently by Rajasthan Government and FICCI to provide a national and international platform to the farmers for knowledge sharing
Dr. Urvashi Sahni, founder of Study Hall Educational Foundation speaks on the status of girls’ education and gender discrimination in India...
International
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh met his Nepalese counterpart Chakra Pani Khanal, Minister for Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives in New Delhi on Tues
Harvesto, a brand of WS Telematics, a leading agriculture technology company and one of the top manufactures of Soil Testing Kits in India, represented the business interests of India as part of th
