Farming
Guwahati: The tea industry in the country is suffering a downturn due to the Centrally sponsored scheme National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) as the workers prefer jobs under the scheme to the tea estate ones.
Farming
No workers in tea estates, blame goes to NREGS
Guwahati: The tea industry in the country is suffering a downturn due to the Centrally sponsored scheme National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) as the workers prefer jobs under the scheme to the tea estate ones.
Bird flu back in West Bengal
Kolkata: Culling of poultry birds started in 13 villages in district of Bengal as bird flu strikes the state.
Govt targets 5 pc increase in foodgrain production this year
New Delhi: The Government is targeting to increase the foodgrain production by 5 per cent this year, says the agriculture ministry. Its aim is to achieve an all time high production of 245 mt (million tonnes) in 2011-12.
India develops less water consuming crop varieties
New Delhi: The government has developed 41 varieties of rice and 22 varieties of wheat that require less water for irrigation.
India’s pulse production down by 51 pc
New Delhi: India, the largest producer and consumer of pulses, now faces shortage of pulses as the pulse production in India has slashed about 52 per cent to just 31.6 grams per day in the last five decades.
FAO warns bird flu epidemic in India
New Delhi: The international agriculture monitoring and research body Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) issued an alert for bird flu in India.
Assocham proposes soil fertility index for agriculture regions
New Delhi: The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has proposed a soil fertility index for the agriculture regions to avoid fall in the production of foodgrains.
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