Women agriculture workers in action at Parasalur Panchayat in Mayiladuthurai district on a hot day. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Until now, working under hot sun was never an issue with 58-year-old S. Kaliammal, an agriculture labourer from Puthagaram village in Pattavarthi panchayat in Mayiladuthurai district. But in the middle of her tilling work on … Read more
Delegates attend the 13th WTO ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The talks at the WTO’s ministerial conference ended with no decision on key issues such as finding a permanent solution to public food stockpile and on curbing fisheries subsidies that lead to over-capacity and over-fishing, sources said. … Read more
Centurion University Vice- Chancellor Prasanta Kumar Mohanty showing the brochure for the new colleges, in Vizianagaram on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Centurion University of Technology and Management in Vizianagaram will start three new colleges —School of Pharmacy, School of Nursing and School of Smart Agriculture—in the 2024-25 academic year, Vice-Chancellor Prasanta Kumar Mohanty … Read more
KK Vijayan tending the sunflower plants | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT As the late afternoon sun beats down mercilessly, KK Vijayan’s sunflowers present a mostly happy picture. “Though called sunflowers, these cannot take too much heat. I doubt if they will flourish in peak summer,” he says as he shows around the 50 cent pocket … Read more
Various technologies developed and promoted by ICAR – Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) have had a great impact on tribal areas in many States, noted Arjun Munda, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare during his maiden visit to IIHR on Sunday. He said that eight major technologies from the institute were selected and … Read more
A cultural procession heralding the beginning of ‘Poopoli – 2024’, an international flower show and agri-fest being organised jointly by the Kerala Agricultural University and the Department of Agriculture Development and Farmers’ Welfare enters the Poopoli ground of the Regional Agricultural Research Station at Ambalavayal in Wayanad on January 1. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT … Read more
Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city, a district of Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province | Photo Credit: Zahid Hussain Disaster events are not only becoming more frequent and severe but their impact is also expected to worsen. The year 2023 brought an end to the warmest decade on record, marked by unprecedented extreme … Read more
Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said diversification of agriculture towards energy and power sectors is the need of the country, apparently pitching for increased production of ethanol. “I am telling you the truth, your life cannot be changed by growing wheat, rice, maize and bajra. No matter how much production you produce, the price … Read more
The Agriculture Department has decided to supply sowing seeds of short-duration crop varieties to farmers in the wake of the delay in the onset of monsoon in the State, according to Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy. The Minister, who held a meeting with senior officials of the Agriculture Department on the issues related to the supply … Read more
The spurt in prices of tomato is a temporary seasonal phenomenon and rates will cool down soon, a top government official said as retail prices of the kitchen staple shot up to Rs 100 per kg in major cities. “It is a highly perishable commodity. Transportation gets affected in areas that received sudden rains. It … Read more