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Chemicals and Petrochemical Secretary, P Raghavendra Rao, today concurred with the industry’s view on the need for data protection provisions in the Insecticides Act to encourage R&D in crop protection products and combat the menace of spurious pesticides
Data protection must in Insecticides Act: Govt Read More
Increasing investments into infrastructure particularly in supply chain; integrated policy making by considering agriculture and animal-husbandry sectors and encouraging innovations will go a long way in ensuring competitiveness of India’s livestock sector and help improve farmers income
Investments will ensure competitiveness in livestock sector Read More
The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu has called for promoting zero-budget natural in agriculture to make farming viable and sustainable
VP calls for zero-budget farming for sustainable agriculture Read More
CIFtest, the rapid detection kit developed by the ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Cochin to detect contamination of chemical preservatives formalin and ammonia in fish is set for commercial production
CIFTest: Fish adulterant detection kit gets commercialised Read More
Assocham feels that better realisations for farmers’ crops would leave more disposable income with them and would thus give a huge rural demand push to the Indian economy
MSP hike makes good economics, for now: Assocham Read More
Despite the advancement and coverage of monsoon across India, the Kharif crop sowing seems to be declining in the season
No monsoon respite, Kharif crop sowing declines Read More
Developed by ICRISAT, India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum, was formally launched today
India gets first biofortified sorghum Read More
Farmers’ organisation, Jai Kisan Andolan has slammed the Government’s current MSP hike and has said, the MSP given by Modi government in four years has been worse than UPA-2
Farmers’ body slams Govt, current MSP is worse than UPA-2 Read More
Dhanuka Agritech, India’s leading agrochemicals company, has been conferred with the ASSOCHAM Water Management Excellence Award 2018 in the ‘Excellence in the field of water education and awareness’ category
ASSOCHAM awards Dhanuka Agritech for water conservation Read More
In June’18, the company registered phenomenal overall growth of 32.3 percent by selling 12,286 units as compared to 9,286 units same period last year
Sonalika ITL records highest ever sales in a quarter Read More