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TRA Tocklai launches decaffeinated green tea powder with 75% less caffeineTea Research Association (TRA) Tocklai launched Decaffeinated Green Tea Powder, developed from Assam's elite clones, containing 75% less ca...
Naturally coloured cotton revival hit by funding crunch, low yieldsIndia's naturally colored cotton, once commercially successful, struggles to regain traction despite rising demand for sustainable textiles...
P2P lending platform Rang De disburses Rs 85 lakh worth of credit to small, marginal, and landless farmers in AssamThrough a strategic collaboration with Siddhi Vinayak Agri Processing Pvt Limited (SV Agri), Rang De is supporting the potato value chain i...
Tea Mosquito Bug Crisis: Planters Association urges immediate government interventionThe United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) has urged the government to immediately intervene and take appropriate steps to cont...
Assam Repealing Bill 2022 to repeal 48 obsolete ActsLast week the cabinet had decided that 27 obsolete Acts to be repealed through tabling of Assam Repealing Bill, 2022 in next Assembly sessi...
Assam Land and Revenue Regulation to be amended to counter unabated encroachmentThe cabinet meeting decided to have Chintan Shivir to be held on 24-26 September 2022 under chairmanship of CM and to be participated by Ca...
Assam's Agriculture department has set a ambitious target for enrolling five lakh farmers under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for ensuing Sali paddyAgriculture minister Atul Bora said that district Agricultural Officers of the State has to take the responsibility to achieve the target f...
Help smallholder farmers thrive economically: Simon GrootBy offering smallholder farmers quality vegetable seeds, both hybrid and non-hybrid, and the knowledge and training to properly grow and ha...
Niti Ayog inks pact with IBM to develop crop yield prediction model using AIFirst phase of the project will focus on developing the model for 10 Districts across Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,...
- NITI Aayog ropes in IBM to use AI in agriculture
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The government's policy think-tank NITI Aayog on Friday decided to partner with leading technology company IBM to d...
Unseasonal showers and hailstorm flatten rabi cropsAs the western disturbance is moving eastward, the weather office has issued warnings to Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya for possibl...
CEA Arvind Subramanian recommends GM pulses to boost output, lower output costAlready field trial of GM chana (chickpea) developed by Assam Agriculture University has been carried on for two years consecutively by Mah...
Small growers to soon get help from appBidyananda Barkakoty, vice-chairman of the Tea Board, said the app will link small tea growers with an expert on good practices through an ...
European Union lifts ban on import of mangoes from IndiaExport of Indian mangoes to the EU during 2012 and 2013 were valued at USD 6.73 million and USD 10.09 million, respectively.
Provide declaration of chemicals used in growing tea: Tea Board of IndiaThe Board asked small tea growers of Assam to provide the information to factories for gauging whether they are in adherence with the body'...
Tea companies like Tata Global, HUL go green on pesticide fearsThe NGO said 59% of the samples had the residue of at least one pesticide active ingredient above the maximum level set by the European Uni...
Centre may consider heat wave as natural calamityThe move came after Reddy wrote to the Prime Minister citing large scale deaths due to extreme heat in various parts of the country mainly ...
- North-eastern states to get Rs 100 crore under National Food Security Mission
Govt is allocating Rs 100 cr to the NE states for supporting various activities relating to rice cultivation, under the National Food Secur...
- Crystal Crop Protection acquires pesticide Luphos-36
Agro-chemicals maker Crystal Crop Protection said it has acquired the pesticide Luphos-36 from Mumbai-based Cheminova India.
- We need to build our food security: MS Swaminathan
Scientist and Member of Parliament MS Swaminathan in an interview with ET says that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.