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18 Dec

New project to peel away the secrets of potato blight

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgriculturePhytophthora infestans, potato blight, University of Dundee

A major, multi-million pound study led by the University of Dundee will aim to reveal the secrets of an invisible war that threatens food production worldwide. Experts from the University’s School of Life Sciences will work with partners from across the country to determine how pathogens cause crop diseases such as potato blight. Part of a collaboration with colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, the Sainsbury Laboratory of the University of Cambridge (SLCU) and Imperial College London, the project has been facilitated by a £5.91 million funding award from UKRI, with the five year study starting early next year. Approximately…

17 Jul

UNDP India partners with Absolute to further sustainable agriculture practices under the government’s (PMYBY) scheme

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgricultureAbsolute, leading bioscience company, PMFBY, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, UNDP, UNDP India, United Nations Development Programme

The partnership will promote innovation and digitalization of PMFBY and strengthen risk financing for a resilient farm sector in India. New Delhi: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Absolute®, a leading bioscience company, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the government of India’s flagship Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and enhance the resilience of the farmers. India faces challenges such as weather fluctuations, pest attacks, erratic rainfall, and humidity affecting agricultural produce. These factors lead to lower yields and income for farmers each year. From 2015 to 2021, India lost 33.9 million hectares of cropped area…

28 Jul

BALCO transforming the lives of farmers in the vicinity

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgricultureanimal husbandry, BALCO, farmers, fish farming, modern agricultural techniques, Mor Jal Mor Maati, Mr Abhijit Pati, socio-economic development, sustainable agriculture, water management

The project ‘Mor Jal Mor Maati’ touches the lives of more than 2000 farmers in the vicinity. BALCO is empowering and supporting neighbourhood communities in achieving greater economic and social well-being as the organization firmly believes that the socio-economic development of communities is paramount and an integral part of its business operations. BALCO has a well-established history and commitment to reinvest in the social good of its neighbourhood and nation at large. The organization is positively impacting and contributing to the realization of integrated and inclusive development of the region through focused interventions in different domains of growth. One such…

19 Apr

MS Subrahmanyam Raju, a farmer achieves a success in converting Chowdu Bhoomi (Alkaline Soil) into cultivable lands with good yields

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April 22 is Earth Day : The Hyderabad based farmer experimented in a 250 acre land at Raichur in Karnataka, and different acreages in Nellore and Vikarabad Districts Hyderabad, Telangana : Good crops are being yielded by converting Chowdu Bhoomi(Alkaline Soil) into fertile lands growing crops with good yields. MS Subrahmanyam Raju, a Hyderabad based farmer has conducted many experiments successfully and achieved good results. He has now become a role model to many as India has lakhs of acres of Chowdu Bhoomi/Alkaline Soils. MS Subrahmanyam Raju along with a couple of other farmers carried out successful experiments at Raichur in…

03 Mar

DGPS based technology to Improve fertilizer application

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgriculture, Techagriculture, DGPS, farmland, fertilizer application, Food security, Geospatial, IIT Kharagpur, Mapping, Soil maps

New Delhi: Geospatial mapping is a buzzword today with the Govt. of India liberalizing the sector. There is another side of mapping that could transform the food security program of India; soil maps, which could be accessed using differential GPS (DGPS), developed by researchers at (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) IIT, Kharagpur for a variable rate of fertilization application in farmlands. Spatial variations in soil type and mineral content in large agricultural tracts are a common phenomenon that leads to a dynamic need for resources such as fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and even water. Farmers have been collecting information on these…

16 Feb

Union Textiles Minister Inaugurates Certified Jute Seeds Distribution Program And Awareness Workshop For Jute Farmers

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Calls Upon Farmers To Use Certified Seeds To Increase Production And Their Income Program To Benefit Over 5 Lakh Farmers New Delhi : Union Minister for Textiles and Women & Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani has called upon the farmers to use certified seeds to increase their income and productivity and contribute to the country in Jute diversified and Technical textile products. Inaugurating,virtually, the Certified Jute Seeds Distribution Plan and Jute Farmers Awareness Workshop, organised at ICAR-CRIJAF Institute at Barrackpore, West Bengal, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani said that the ICARE Initiative which started in 2015 with only about 60…

21 Jan

Researchers identify phenotype to boost ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ in rice

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgriculture, Sciencecrops, nitrogen, nitrogen use efficiency

New Delhi : Crops take only about 30% of the nitrogen fertilizer added and the rest gets washed away to cause pollution, ill-health and climate change. Improving this poor ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ (NUE) was a major global challenge for decades, as there were no simple visual cues or genetic means to differentiate between high and low NUE cultivars in any crop. A team of researchers led by Prof. Nandula Raghuram from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, (GGSIU) New Delhi, has found the ‘phenotype’ or the visually identifiable features determining NUE. They also identified some associated genes that could help in…

01 Jan

Virtual Agri-hackathon Atmanirbhar Krishi inaugurated

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgricultureAtmanirbhar Krishi, Virtual Agri-hackathon

• To make Agriculture profitable and attract youth towards agriculture are challenges of the Agri-hackathon: Shri Narendra Singh Tomar • Agri-Startups can help improve the lot of farmers Agri India Hackathon: Building Smart India with Self-Reliant Agriculture Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the Virtual Agri-hackathon 2020 organised by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare in association with IARI, Pusa, New Delhi today. Speaking on the occasion Union Agriculture Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar said that besides the hard-work of the farmers the research of scientists has led to self-sufficiency in…

29 Dec

PM flags off 100th Kisan Rail

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgriculture, National100th Kisan Rail

Processing Industry related to value addition to agri products is our priority: PM Private Investment in Agriculture will help farmers: PM The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi flagged off the 100th Kisan Rail from Sangola in Maharashtra to Shalimar in West Bengal today via video conferencing. Union Ministers, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar and Shri Piyush Goyal were also present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister termed the Kisan Rail Service as a major step towards increasing the income of the farmers of the country. He expressed happiness that even during the Corona pandemic, 100 Kisan Rails…

24 Dec

Parliament has passed the 3 farm bills for improving overall economic condition of farmers,

The News Horizon0 CommentsAgricultureMinistry of Jal Shakti

Parliament has passed the 3 farm bills for improving overall economic condition of farmers, which is congruent to Government’s goal of doubling farmer’s income: Shri Rattan Lal Kataria “Govt to disburse Rs 18,000 Crores directly into the bank accounts of 9 Crore farmers on the occasion of Birth Anniversary of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee” “Government open to discussion on farm laws and shall address all the concerns of Annadatas” New Delhi: Asserting that the Modi Government is totally committed towards the welfare of farmers,the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria has stated…