Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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Zoo bats for research on night flyers
Jamshedpur, July 30: It
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Call for ban on BT cotton cultivation
The Sustainable Agriculture Action Group (Saag) has expressed concern over the government
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Seeds for 34 high yield varieties of crops developed
Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal informed the Senate on Wednesday that the National Agriculture Research System has developed 34 high yield and disease resistant varieties of various crops. Replying to questions in the House, he said tea production technology has been standardised and demonstrated at farmers' field on an area of 218 acres.
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Farm tips to beat rain deficit
- Special seeds distributed, agriculture training proposed Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Balipur, Dhanbad. Dhanbad, July 20: A weak and erratic monsoon has spelt doom for farmers of Dhanbad district this kharif season, prompting a worried administration to mount efforts to tackle the crisis.
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Govt to distribute seeds of crop needing less water
LUCKNOW: Even as the state Met department kept a close watch on the movement of the "low pressure" area over the Bay of Bengal, which converted into a "deep depression" on Tuesday, chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta after a review meeting issued directions to distribute among farmers seed of crops requiring less water to grow.
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Global warming threat to State farmers
Global warming has posed a serious challenge before the farmers of Assam as the water bodies started drying up and the ground water level is also going down sharply over the years, said Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma.
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Maize farmers given sub-standard seeds
Udhampur: Demanding action against officers of the Agriculture Department responsible for the failure of the maize crop, social activists and dissident Congress leader RS Pathania has alleged that sub-standard and eaten up maize seeds were distributed among farmers of the Majalata area of Ramnagar .
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Seeds fail to germinate
JEYPORE: Supply of substandard seeds by the Orissa Seed Corporation for the kharif season in Koraput district has hit the farmers below the belt. About 40 per cent seeds was found to be poor in quality and failed to germinate.
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Pesticide-treated paddy killing wild pigeons in Manipur
Many wild pigeons were reported killed in Manipur
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Pakistan, China working to develop high yield rice seeds: Kaira
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and China are working on development of a new rice seed variety having more per acre yield and resistance against diseases. 'Production achieved from this new rice seed would be exported to Iran and in return Pakistan would get oil which would be provided to the masses on subsidised rates,' he said.