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Agriculture

MGNREGA helped increase food-grain production

Various schemes initiated under the MGNREGA programme here has led to a significant rise in food-grain production and improvement in ecology in coal mine areas in the district, a top official has said. There has been significant rise in food-grain production in the district which is regarded as the rice bowl of Bengal due to […]

Environment

Environmentalist Bhatt awarded Gandhi Peace Prize

Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt, eminent Gandhian and environmentalist, has been awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013. The jury for the prize met under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 18th February and decided on his name, a press release in New Delhi said. Other members of the jury were Chief […]

Agriculture

Pan Gulf Foods and Industries FZ Co set up as a joint venture company to make Dubai a regional basmati rice hub

Dubai : The shared vision of making Dubai a regional basmati rice hub has inspired H.H. Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah bin Turki bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, V. Raman Kumar and Balbir Singh Uppal to create a conglomerate for storing, processing, packaging and distributing basmati rice in the Middle East region. Pan Gulf Foods and Industries FZ […]

Agriculture

TAFE takes its outreach program ‘Farmers’ Day’ to Rajasthan

New Delhi : India’s second largest tractor maker Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) held its annual Farmers’ Day event, this time at Jetpur, Pali district, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan on 25th February 2014, for the ninth year in succession. In the past eight years, the event has covered Madurai, Tanjore, Alwarkuruchi & Kovilpatti in Tamil […]

Environment

Miranda House & Lotus Greens spread message of sustainability to 10,000 students through Tempest 2014

New Delhi: Sponsored by Lotus Greens, the real estate company known for its Environment friendly initiatives & Sustainability drive, the annual Miranda House Fest – Tempest, rocked the Delhi University one more time. The fest appropriately adopted the theme ‘Shades of Green’, to spread awareness on sustainability. The idea of the three vital Rs- Reduce, […]

Agriculture

Green tea demand growing by 17 pc in domestic market

Demand for green tea is growing at a rate of 17 per cent per annum against only 3 per cent for black tea in the domestic market, a Tea Board official said on Friday. Assam produced 2 million kg of green tea of the estimated production of 11 million kg in the country during 2013, […]

Agriculture

Joint Liability Group to finance small farmers: NABARD

Rural development agency NABARD is to roll out a new concept called Joint Liability Group (JLG) to provide institutional credit to small farmers like share croppers, oral lessees and agricultural labourers. Conceived on the pattern of Self Help Groups (SHG), NABARD will provide refinance facility to banks for providing lending to small and marginal farmers […]

Environment

Govt clears plan to create new forest cover

Facing criticism of ignoring environmental concerns in rush to clear projects, Government on Thursday cleared a plan to create new forest cover and improve the quality of existing forests with an expenditure of Rs 13,000 crore in the 12th Plan. Besides the two components, which are to be implemented through various measures including decentralisation of […]

Agriculture

Nuziveedu Seeds receives ‘Bio Excellence Award for 2013’ from Govt of Karnataka

Hyderabad : Nuziveedu Seeds Limited, the largest Indian Seeds company has received ‘Bio Excellence Award for the year 2013’ from the Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka. Mr. M Prabhakar Rao, Chairman & Managing Director, Nuziveedu Seeds Limited received the award in the presence of Nobel Laureate (2012) Professor […]

Agriculture

President Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar, CM Prithviraj Chavan inaugurate Krishi Vasant today

Nagpur : The country is likely to achieve record 263.2 million tonne foodgrain production this year. This would be about 4 million tonne higher than the record of 259 million tonnes achieved two years ago. This was announced by Union Agriculture and Food Processing Minister, Shri Sharad Pawar, while addressing the national agricultural exposition, Krishi […]