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Restoring India’s land, securing India’s future through science and collective actionScientific innovations and integrated farming systems are combating land degradation and enhancing climate resilience, benefiting millions ...
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 ...
Govt launches digital climate atlas as 15-yr resilience programme reaches 'critical juncture'India's key climate resilience program for farming, NICRA, is at a crucial point. It needs a clear strategy and future vision. A new digita...
Walmart Foundation and ICRISAT announces the launch of Secondary Processing Unit in Andhra PradeshRajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Flipkart, said, “Beyond Walmart Foundation’s philanthropic programs in India, Flipkart’s...
TRS govt has not built double bedroom houses for poor as promised: Union Minister Kishan ReddyReddy, who spoke at length on the numerous welfare schemes of the NDA government, said food grains' production in the country grew at a rec...
Karnataka government launches scheme to increase farmers' income by 20 per centKarnataka government along with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics launched a scheme to increase income of fa...
- ICAR Summer School to be held in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
The 21-day Indian Research Council of Agricultural Research Summer School will begin in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
ICRISAT high on outstanding returns to investment in AR4D"These outstanding economic rates of return to investment in AR4D illustrate ICRISAT's core science and development impacts," Dar told repo...
- ICRISAT, Ramoji Film City tie-up for agriculture theme park
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has tied up with the Ramoji Film City for setting up an agriculture theme ...
Kharif crops output likely to be far below than last year: MoS for AgricultureProduction of kharif crops during 2014-15 is likely to be "far below" than the record output achieved last year, Parliament was informed to...
Sowing window available till early August: GovernmentAgriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said the government has taken several measures to address "any situation" arising due to deficiency ...
- David Bergvinson to be next ICRISAT Director General
Prior to joining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr Bergvinson was a senior scientist with the International Maize and Wheat Improve...
PM Narendra Modi reviews drought contingency plan; urges agriculture ministry to focus on boosting rural economy“Contingency plans are already in place, states have been suitably advised, sufficient food stocks are in place," said Radha Mohan Singh
Rainfall is scanty in a few pockets in peninsular IndiaThere are pockets in peninsular India which are still waiting for good rainfall.
CRIDA to have facility to develop climate-proof crop varietiesThe facility -- Phenomics platform -- is being set up at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore under the NICRA to study climate change impacts i...
Monsoon revives, crop yields still lowerThe monsoon has revived significantly in the past week, but the government is anxiously monitoring the situation as crop yields may still b...
- Worry lines deepen on monsoon, farm fears
Key concern is the 47% probability assigned to normal monsoon, well below the 53% last year when the rainfall was normal but its distributi...
- ICRISAT to execute Bill Gates funded project for legumes
Agri research body ICRISAT and two other centres would execute Bill Gates-funded USD 21 million project for legumes in India.
- Stocks are aplenty, but 1950s-like food scarcity may rear head
With agriculture productivity not showing signs of any quantum rise, experts believe that the country could once again be headed for the 19...