Agriculture

Government of Jharkhand in its endeavor to promote industrial activity and establish Jharkhand as one of the prime investment destination of Eastern India is organising a two day investment and business summit to improve the overall investment climate. Jharkhand is currently ranked third by World Bank report in terms of ...

Farmers in Karnataka are going to see a big transformation in their livelihoods and agricultural productivity. Recognizing the potential for a strong collaboration in dryland agriculture long-term partners the Government of Karnataka and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) along with consortium partners, launched a scheme called ...

Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department of Haryana Government is planning to cover one lakh cattle under Pashudhan Bima Yojana. Pashudhan Bima Yojana is a new insurance scheme launched by the Government of Haryana. State government will provide insurance cover to cows, buffaloes, bulls, camel, sheep, goat and pig for a ...

PM inaugurated International Conference and Exhibition on Sugarcane Value Chain – Vision 2025 Sugar – at Pune. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, inaugurated the International Conference and Exhibition on Sugarcane Value Chain – Vision 2025 Sugar – at Pune. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that we ...

Punjab must share water with Haryana, the Supreme Court ruled, terming “unconstitutional” a law the state passed in 2004 to end all its water agreements with neighbouring states. The verdict, 12 years after a presidential reference to the court, has sharply escalated politics in Punjab ahead of polls next year. ...

National Project for Cattle and Buffalo Breeding (NPCBB) by Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries envisages genetic upgradation and development of indigenous breeds on priority basis.   Objectives To arrange delivery of vastly improved artificial insemination service at the farmers doorstep. To progressively bring under organized breeding through artificial ...

Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries to enhance the productivity of the indigenous breeds of India through professional farm management and superior nutrition has formulated this mission. Objectives To undertake breed improvement programme for indigenous cattle breeds so as to improve the genetic makeup and increase ...

Ministry of Agriculture, GoI, has formulated this scheme to develop marketing infrastructure in the country to cater to the post-harvest requirement of production and marketable surplus of various farm products. Objectives To provide additional agricultural marketing infrastructure to cope up with the large marketable surpluses of agricultural and allied commodities. ...

As a part of the Government’s focus on the development of programmes that aim to directly and positively impact people’s lives rapidly, the Ministry of Science and Technology has been at the forefront in many of these initiatives. Farmer-Centric initiative of this Ministry is Cattle Genomics. Livestock contributes significantly to the ...

As a part of the Government’s focus on the development of programmes that aim to directly and positively impact people’s lives rapidly, the Ministry of Science and Technology has been at the forefront in many of these initiatives. The Farmer-Centric initiative of this Ministry is Biotech-KISAN The Minister for Science and ...