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...
18 Apr, 2023, 05.30 PM IST
Assam Repealing Bill 2022 to repeal 48 obsolete ActsLast week the cabinet had decided that 27 obsolete Acts to be repealed through tabling of Assam Repealing Bill, 2022 in next Assembly sessi...
06 Sep, 2022, 08.06 PM IST
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...
31 Aug, 2022, 01.33 AM IST
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...
12 Jul, 2021, 10.22 PM IST
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...
29 Sep, 2019, 09.43 AM IST
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,...
04 May, 2018, 10.31 PM IST
- 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...
04 May, 2018, 09.22 PM IST
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...
12 Feb, 2018, 10.30 PM IST
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...
22 Sep, 2016, 08.36 AM IST
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 ...
11 May, 2016, 08.44 PM IST
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.
04 Mar, 2015, 03.09 PM IST
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'...
06 Jan, 2015, 03.48 PM IST
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...
19 Aug, 2014, 12.11 PM IST
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 ...
17 Jul, 2013, 04.35 PM IST
- 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...
28 Jun, 2012, 02.51 PM IST
- 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.
06 Jun, 2012, 03.51 PM IST
- 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.
11 Feb, 2010, 06.21 PM IST