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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- Science at scale: India’s journey from food security to global leadershipToday, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices; the largest exporter of rice; and among the leading producers of ...
- India needs to reduce the strategic importance of fertilisers through a bold agricultural policyGlobal events like the West Asia conflict and El Nino threaten governments. Rising fertilizer prices create a fiscal and political crisis f...
- Haryana giving special incentive to farmers to adopt crop diversificationIn this direction, the state government took the initiative and started its ambitious Mera Pani-Meri Virasat Scheme, under which the key ob...
- Govt efforts alone cannot be successful, people's participation required: PM ModiIn his virtual address at the first national conference of water ministers from states, Modi said water should be a subject of cooperation,...
- India calls for eliminating north-south divide to reach consensus on issues grappling International Seed TreatyAmid lack of consensus on issues like benefit sharing of germ plasm which will provide access to better quality seeds, India on Monday urge...
- India says BRICS nations can play leading role in achieving 2030 SDG goalsIn his opening remark, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, "BRICS countries are well-positioned to take a leading role in helpi...
- Biodiversity is the foundation for life: Virbhadra SinghBiodiversity is the foundation for life and for essential services provided by ecosystems and governments are recognizing the importance of...
- PM Modi to open 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress tomorrow"Biodiversity conservation has become important. The status in our country is not satisfactory. We will have to do much more," said M S Swa...
- Agri production on rise despite fall in cultivable area: GovernmentAgriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh told the Lok Sabha that state governments have to take suitable measures to check diversion of agric...
- Monsanto plans to make operations carbon-neutral by 2021Monsanto announced plans to make its operations carbon-neutral by 2021 even as it acknowledged climate change as one of the biggest challen...
- 'Conserving crop diversity essential to achieve zero hunger'With the twin challenges of population growth and climate change, there is a need to conserve native seeds from the world over that will he...
- Conserving crop diversity essential to achieve zero hunger: Crop Trust Executive DirectorThe conservation of diversity is also essential as it can bring farmers more and better options in the future, to be more competitive and s...
- Kerala biodiversity board to revive tuber crop farmingThe KSBB has proposed a Tuber Germplasm conservation programme in Onattukara in Alappuzha district to conserve and enrich tuber crop divers...
- Maneka Gandhi bats for organic farming"We have various methods to prepare different types of cuisines through organic ways and we have vast diversity of cuisines as well," she s...
- Delay in biodiversity board formation irks green brigadeEnvironmentalists are irked with the delay in constitution of a biodiversity management board by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC).
- Small decline in farm land not to hit food production: Sharad PawarA marginal decline in cultivable land has not adversely affected the country's food production, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said toda...
- 'India ranks 10th in world in plant diversity'India ranks fourth in Asia and tenth in the world in plant diversity, the Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) Vice Chancellor, N N Singh, h...
- Now, Pawar bats for GM crops to meet food securityEven as agriculture minister Sharad Pawar accepted that the last word on Bt Brinjal was that of environment minister Jairam Ramesh, he made...
- Govt plans legal steps to protect biodiversityThe government will soon have a legal framework to regulate or monitor the commercial use of India's biodiversity by both local and foreign...
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