by Varun Rai | Apr 25, 2023 | Agriculture
No Prospect of Milk Imports As of now the Government of India has no plan to import milk products such as ghee and butter. On the contrary, Union Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Parshottam Rupala has assured that his ministry will boost supplies from untapped...
by Pramila Viswas | Apr 11, 2023 | Agriculture
Reducing Dependence on Import of Edible Oils Though a long way to go, the Union Government is implementing a series of schemes towards self-sufficiency in edible oil, which, otherwise, is a big import-commodity for India. National Food Security Mission- Oilseeds...
by Pramila Viswas | Mar 29, 2023 | Agriculture
Farmers’ Income As per last “Situation Assessment Survey” conducted in 2012-13 by NSSO, Monthly Agricultural Household Income was estimated as Rs.6426/- which increased to Rs.10218/- as per the survey conducted in 2018-19. Government had constituted an...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Mar 17, 2023 | Agriculture
The Magic of ‘Rataul’ Circa 1874: Barden, an engineer engaged to supervise the construction of the Eastern Canal in the Baghpat region of Meerut, brought some plants of the Bambai variety from the Bombay Presidency (as Maharashtra was then known). These were grown by...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Mar 2, 2023 | Agriculture
The ‘Orange Bowl’ of Manipur Ten years ago, around this time, this writer accompanied the Shaurya Chakra Awardee Col DPK Pillay, at his insistence, to the remote and beautiful district of Tamenglong of Manipur to study the potential of Citrus Reticulata Blanco...
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