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Dr Rattan Lal: Indian born American Scientist wins World Food Prize
On June 11, the Indian American soil scientist Dr Rattan Lal has won the World Food Prize for mainstreaming and developing soil centric approach in order to increase food production. Highlights Dr Lal’s strategy of restoring soil health has been adopted by three United Nations Climate Change Conferences. Techniques of Dr Lal Dr Lal has ..
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Agriculture • Agroforestry • Carbon Sequestration • farming • Livestock Rearing • UN Climate Change Conference • United Nations • World Food Prize
Third Phase of Gujarat’s “Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan” begins
The Gujarat state government has launched the 3rd edition of the Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan to prepare the water bodies before the monsoon. Background The Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan is a water conservation scheme launched by the Gujarat state government in 2018 after experiencing a weak monsoon. The second edition was launched in ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Agriculture • Desiltation • farming • Gujarat Government • Migrant workers • MNREGA • Monsoon • Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan • Vijay Rupani
Sown Crop Area has increased by 36%
On April 20, 2020, the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare announced that the sown crop area of summer crops has increased by 36%. Farming had been completely exempted from lock down. Highlights The rise has been mainly observed in rice cultivation. Rainfall has increased by 14% as compared to last year. The total ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Agriculture • Agriculture Sector • Crop Production • farming • Foodgrains • Krishi Rath • Rainfall • Rice production
Initiatives to prevent disruption of farming activity during lockdown
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare has launched several initiatives to promote farming during lock down. Highlights The Ministry had allowed imports of more than 1.25 lakh metric tonnes of chemicals used in farming. The Agricultural and Processed Food products Export Development Authority (APEDA) focused specially on the transport of major exports in the ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Agriculture • APEDA • farming • Horticulture • Indian Railway • Kharif Crops • lock down • National Conference
15th Finance Commission constitutes expert group on farm exports
The 15th Finance Commission (FFC) recently set up a High level expert group on farm exports. The group is to be headed by the Chairman and Managing director of ITC, Sanjiv Puri. The committee comprises various members including Former agriculture secretary Radha Singh and chairman of APEDA Paban K. Borthakur. The committee will suggest performance-based ..
Topics: exports • farming • Fifteenth Finance Commission