[ad_1] SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said that Rs 3156 crore have been allocated in budget 2023-24 to help in transforming JK’s agriculture and allied sectors in order to increase farmer income, ensure food security and accelerate UT’s economic growth. A Holistic Agriculture Development Plan has been rolledContinue Reading
[ad_1] Representative image New Delhi: The Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 covers amendments related to the power sector and there is no amendment proposal related to the agriculture sector, the Parliament was told on Tuesday. Power Minister R.K. Singh gave the assurance in response to a question in Lok Sabha duringContinue Reading
[ad_1] Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday called for the “immediate cessation” of the war in Ukraine during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Erdoğan also “thanked President Putin for his positive stance regarding the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative” and added that the twoContinue Reading
[ad_1] Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu BJP Agricultural Wing on Tuesday termed the State Agriculture budget as a “paper budget” and not beneficial to the farmer community. Without assessing whether the budget of Rs 32,775.78 crore presented in 2021 and Rs 33,307 crore in 2022 really reached and benefitted the farmers,Continue Reading
[ad_1] KULGAM, MARCH 14: For Promotion of round the year mushroom cultivation in the district Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Department today distributed twenty Mushroom units among the members of NRLM-Kulgam who were trained in cultivation of mushroom by the Department of Agriculture in collaboration with JKB RSETI. These unitsContinue Reading
[ad_1] KULGAM, MARCH 03: The Additional District Development Commissioner (ADDC) Kulgam, Showkat Ahmad Rather today chaired a meeting of officers of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal/ Sheep Husbandry and other allied departments to review physical and financial progress recorded by these departments under UT Capex and centrally sponsored schemes. During the meeting,Continue Reading
[ad_1] More than 100 countries reached agreement on a United Nations treaty to protect the high seas, following marathon talks at U.N. headquarters in New York that ended late Saturday. The High Seas Treaty will put 30 percent of the planet’s seas into protected areas by 2030, aiming to safeguardContinue Reading
[ad_1] Like carpets that Kashmir weaves but ill-affords for itself, the valley produces more than 25 tons of costly morels that sell at a cost higher than silver in the global market, reports Tazeem Nazir Morel Mushrooms, locally called Gucchi or Kan Gitch are prized wild-growing Fungi that feed aContinue Reading
[ad_1] Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds. It took her 28 months to discover a cheap alternative that is abundantly around the campus and it fetched her a prestigious grant to setContinue Reading
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has cleared decks for USD 100 million support by International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) through implementation of Competitiveness Improvement of Agriculture and Allied Sectors Project (JKCIP). Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, gave a green signal to propose the JKCIP to the Department ofContinue Reading