Category: AGRICULTURE

By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) NEW DELHI: Percentage involvement of women in dairy activities ranged from 85% in different states and in India. Women as an independent target group, account from 495.74 million and represent 48.3% of the country’s population. The All India Debt Investment Survey |(NSSO 70TH Round) indicates that 44 % of the rural households own bovine animals and for about a quarter of the rural households in Tamil Nadu. Kerala (22%), Haryana (15%), Punjab (15%), Rajasthan (11%) and Gujarat (18%)…

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By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) NEW DELHI: Seeking to protect farmers from price volatility by ensuring guaranteed price for their produce, the Centre will come out with a draft model law on contract farming this month. Once it is made public, stakeholders, including farmers, will be given 30 days to comments and give suggestions. A final ‘model’ contract farming Act is expected to be released in November after incorporating the suggestions. Contract farming is a system in which agro-processing exporting or trading units…

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By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) NEW DELHI: Kerala has regained the top spot in coconut production, surpassing the other major producers –Tamil Nadu and Karnataka – in the 2016-17 agriculture year. With 7.70-lakh hectares (ha) of cultivated area, Kerala’s coconut production touched 7464.25 million nuts, while that of Tamil Nadu was 6171.07 million nuts followed by Karnataka at 5128.89 million, Earlier, Kerala was in third position at 4896.61 million. Replanting and rejuvenation schemes and Layout of Demonstration Plots (LOP) adopted by the Coconut…

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By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) NEW DELHI: A new variety of the widely cultivated sambhaMahsuri has been developed by a consortium of Indian Canadian and Chinese scientists. The ‘transgenic variety’, which has a gene from a weedy plant suitably manipulated,has demonstrated positive traits such as growing taller and bigger using water efficiently, says P B kirti, one of the lead researchers from the University of Hyderabad (UoH). The scientists used techniques of gene manipulation on the gene AtTOR(Target of Rapaycin), which has been…

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By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) NEW DELHI: An Israeli company says it has developed a no –spray, Environment – Friendly Solution that can protect Indian farmers from the deadly oriental fruit fly, which has destroyed 300 Fruit Species In Indian. The Oriental Fruit fly (Bctroceradorsalis) is considered to be the most destructive, invasive and widespread of all fruit flies, and is also a menace in 65 other countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas. The Agri-tech company Biofeed’s “lures’’ hugs on trees, Contain…

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By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) NEW DELHI: India emergence as the export hub of instant coffee is pushing up overall coffee exports from the country. Coffee exports rose to 1,77,805 tonnes during April-August 2017 from 1,62,641 tonnes in the same period last year. In terms f value, th exports rose to $363.1 million. The exports are believed to be driven by value-added coffee (instant coffee) which contributed nearly 25.5 percent to total export from April to August, 2017 and this…

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By: Prof. R K Yadav (Deptt of Genetics and Plant Breeding C.S. Azad Univ. of Agril. & Tech. Kanpur & Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group), Dr. Ripudaman Singh (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Hemant Kumar ( Agriculture Correspondent ICN Group) KANPUR: India recently jumped 30 places in the World Bank’s Doing Business report and now holds the 100th  rank , Which highlights the Government’s effort to make the country ‘entrepreneur friendly’. We are working towards easing the process of doing business for Global and Domestic industry players as well as brining in new talent to…

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