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- Expert lays stress on green agriculture for green economy
In the series of diamond jubilee lecture at the National Botanical Research Institute, an institute under the Council for Scientific and In...
23 Aug, 2013, 08.17 PM IST
- Fungal disease affects wheat in parts of Punjab
In 2012, major wheat-growing states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were hit by the ...
15 Jan, 2013, 01.43 AM IST
- Punjab, Haryana eye 285 lakh tonnes wheat for rabi 2012-13
As paddy harvesting is still going on in both the states, wheat sowing has not picked up pace with Haryana seeing crop sowing trailing, off...
07 Nov, 2012, 06.33 PM IST
- High yield seed varieties, farm technologies boost wheat production in Punjab
Besides the seed varieties, the technology transfer by extension specialists of PAU and state department of Agriculture played a significan...
19 Jun, 2012, 05.53 PM IST