Tag: Agriculture
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ICAR and ICRISAT – Partnership for Crop Research in India : Daily Editorial
Welcome to Daily Editorial Initiative! Context Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and International Crops Research for semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have joined together to work on crop improvement and agronomy programmes in India through Climate Smart Agriculture: Focus Areas: Climate Smart Crops, smart food, digitisation of breeding database, integrating systems modelling tools for up-scaling climate…
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All you need to know about Soil Health Card Scheme
Deteriorating soil health has been a cause of concern and that has been leading to sub optimal utilization of farming resources. Soil health needs to be assessed at regular intervals so as to ensure that farmers apply the required nutrients while taking advantages of the nutrients already present in the soil. A new centrally sponsored…
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NSSO Report 70th Round – Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households in India
I have listed down the highlights of NSSO Report. It is a useful data-set – status of agricultural households, their diversifying income sources, access to financial products etc. You need not remember the figures. You need to get an idea, what the situation is. Household type – Rural India has an estimated 90.2 million agricultural households— about 57.8% of…
