Odisha's food supplies minister has rejected claims that the paddy procurement registration process is complicated. Speaking to reporters, he said the system is running smoothly and farmers are enrolling without trouble. The…
The Agriculture Ministry is considering restricting Carbosulfan, a widely used insecticide on paddy, cotton and horticulture crops, after a recommendation from the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee. A final decision is…
The US National Science Foundation has awarded Dr Xiaolei Huang of the University of Memphis $528,137 for a three-year India-US project to develop AI-based precision soybean breeding technology. The project, called SoyWatch,…
Paddy farmers in Chenbagaramanputhoor, Kanyakumari district, have urged the Tamil Nadu government and Agriculture Department to act as wild rice weed spreads across nearly 150 acres of the village's 500-acre paddy belt.…
Zinc is emerging as a strategic industrial enabler for India's development, supporting infrastructure, manufacturing, renewable energy, agriculture, and next-generation energy storage, The Hindu BusinessLine reports. Corrosion-related losses could amount to nearly 5…
Continuous rainfall over the past two weeks has triggered an outbreak of secondary apple scab in several orchards across south Kashmir's Shopian district, raising concerns among growers about the health and quality…
An ISRO-National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) study has used satellite imagery and machine learning to map soil health in Andhra Pradesh's Indukurpet mandal. The researchers combined Landsat-8 data with 175 field samples…
The Union government has told the Rajya Sabha that it has no plans to increase ethanol blending beyond the current 20% (E20) and that any move to E25 would require more scientific…
Joint Director of Horticulture, Mysuru, Manjunath Angadi has urged farmers to prioritise drought-tolerant indigenous crop varieties as El Nino threatens horticultural yields. Speaking at the 12th Annual General Meeting of the Desi…
Researchers have identified a new nocturnal frog species living among coffee shrubs in Costa Rica's central Pacific region, reports Times of India. The amphibian, less than 4 cm long, was found in…
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