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Understanding how climate change is affecting crops, the productivity and how we can adopt and adapt to these changes is going to require the best statistics, including use of new digital tools, Bill Gates says
What does Bill Gates say in regard to small farmers, climate change and right information? Read More
New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, environmental and social sustainability in food
ICRISAT, University of Reading join hands to grow high nutrition food Read More
Agrochemicals comprise a wide range of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and plant growth regulators, have played a crucial role in altering India’s food-scant status to a food-surplus nation
Agrochemicals are safe; fighting against diseases and climate change: Expert Read More
In a major breakthrough, scientists from 21 research institutes globally, have successfully completed sequencing of 429 chickpea lines from 45 countries to identify genes for tolerance to drought and heat
Global team cracks genetic code to develop high-yielding, climate resilient chickpea Read More
The Vice President stressed upon the need to take steps to make agriculture more remunerative and sustainable
Farmers are critical for the well-being of the nation: Vice President Read More
CK Mishra, Secretary, MoEF&CC underlined the need to make farmers the centrepiece of solutions to the problem of farm stubble burning by giving them a choice of technology and resource base that is acceptable and cost- effective
Cost-effective technology vital to curb stubble burning: CK Mishra Read More
Over the years, Karnataka has been taking progressive steps in agriculture sector. In the past, one such initiative, Rashtriya eMarket Services (ReMS), an online platform for agriculture commodity trade has been the core idea behind launching the e-National Agriculture Market (eNAM) in 2015 by the Central government. With the threats looming from climate change and frequent droughts, the state is promoting millets as smart food. In an exclusive interview with Agriculture Post, NH Shivashankara Reddy, Minister for Agriculture, Government of Karnataka discussed issues ranging from its millets programme to various agricultural policies of the state.
Karnataka bets big on millets to combat climate change and providing nutrition security Read More
Seeing both forests and trees is about to get easier, thanks to a new open-access tool developed by NASA and FAO with support from the Google Earth Engine Team and the US Government’s SilvaCarbon Program – allowing anyone to track land-use and landscape changes anywhere
NASA, FAO’s next-generation geospatial tool to monitor forests Read More
The Forest and Farm Facility initiative – a partnership among FAO, IIED, IUCN and AgriCord will scale up its efforts to help forest and farm producers and their organisations develop climate-resilient landscapes and farming
Global partnership to strengthen climate-resilient farming 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