Union Budget: Edible oil industry seeks higher customs duty to motivate farmersIndustry experts advocate for higher customs duty on imported edible oils to enhance domestic oil seed production. The Union Budget's alloc...
23 Jul, 2024, 04.43 PM IST
Gram Unnati partners with Coco-Cola India for project to boost mango yields in KarnatakaGram Unnati and Coca-Cola India’s Project Mango Unnati in Karnataka targets improving yields and farmers' income for Alphonso and Totapuri ...
17 Jul, 2024, 03.21 PM IST
Dvara E-Registry, IRRI unveil FPOs in Odisha to empower women farmers using eco-friendly agri practicesThis collaboration looks at broadening the scope of agricultural production among small and marginal women farmers as well as improving the...
24 Apr, 2024, 10.16 AM IST
Bryson DeChambeau stokes Masters ambitions with a mature 65The 88th edition of the Masters at Augusta began under grey skies with delays due to wet weather. Tiger Woods, Sahith Theegala, and Akshay ...
12 Apr, 2024, 12.07 PM IST
Agriculture 4.0 can wait. It is time for farmers to embrace desi techniquesAs climate change impacts crop productivity, experts say it’s the time to study the pros and cons of modern as well as natural farming prac...
10 Feb, 2024, 09.50 AM IST
Soon, farms to have sensors to track efficient use of resources"The idea is to incentivise and provide infrastructure support to farmers to undertake smart farming to maximise water efficiency and restr...
02 Dec, 2023, 01.38 PM IST
How innovation can make the world more sustainableRanging from renewable energy to transportation, agriculture, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing, innovative technologies hold the...
03 Apr, 2023, 01.05 PM IST
75 Indian villages to be shaped with Israeli cooperation: Agriculture minister Narendra Singh TomarTomar, who was in Israel on a four-day official visit from May 8, met his Israeli counterpart Oded Forer at the Knesset (Israel's Parliamen...
12 May, 2022, 12.15 PM IST
Laying the Groundwork for a Food Secure Future20 Dec, 2021, 05.06 PM IST
India fields technology to boost farmers' crop yieldsBesides mechanisation of farming, technology penetration in Indian agriculture sector is happening at multiple levels: policy interventions...
13 Aug, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
How WhatsApp, Facebook are helping farmers prosperMore than 600,000 farmers are associated with Hoy Amhi Shetkari and the Facebook page has 500,000 followers.
19 Jul, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
CIIE-IIMA, Sanjaya Mariwala invest in SattvaponicsThe nutraceutical industry is currently facing challenges like pesticides and heavy metal contamination, low bio-active content, and incons...
11 Oct, 2018, 03.18 PM IST
Medical Marvel: Why this Indian startup caught the attention of Ivanka TrumpIts flagship product is a biomedical wearable that can detect oncoming epileptic seizures, thereby helping patients get timely treatment.
13 Jan, 2018, 11.44 AM IST
Non-tech companies hacking consumer behavior patterns using HackathonsIt takes loads of investment to create a product or solution but hackathons help creating the same solutions at a fraction of those cost
05 Mar, 2017, 06.50 AM IST
Agritech startups increasingly focusing on social parametersApart from offering tech know how, these startups are working to improve health, sanitation, education & entrepreneurial initiatives for fa...
26 Oct, 2016, 08.56 AM IST
Climate-smart cultivation reaps profit in NepalFor decades, farmers of this Himalayan nation have been using the dung of their cows and buffaloes as manure. But they had to use pesticide...
23 Oct, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
How 'start up nation' Israel technology for agriculture and saves fresh waterIn most agricultural fields, thin black pipes are laid out like a giant spider's web, from tiny holes water is literally supplied directly ...
23 Aug, 2015, 12.08 PM IST