1. Exports of six key agricultural products, including tea, spices and tobacco, have registered negative growth in 2014-15, mainly due to decline in prices in global commodity markets.
2. Agricultural scientists stressed the urgent need to stop 'Jhum' (slash and burn method of farming in the hill tops) cultivation in the 8 North Eastern hilly states by providing settled and alternative farming methods and increasing the skills of young farmers toward this.
3. With prices faring at a 5 year low, Suicides up in troubled rubber belt in Kerala.
4. Heat waves in South claim 70 lakh birds, poultry industry suffers Rs 100 crore loss.
5. With pulses prices rising by up to 64 per cent in the last one year, the government plans to increase supplies to rein in prices as it looks at steps to keep inflation down amid forecast of deficit monsoon.
6. Wheat procurement up at 26.47 million tonnes; hailstorm, rains hit quality.
7. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has said it has started to detain imports from India of corn for feeding livestock to allow for testing of aflatoxins.
8. India was the sixth-largest corn exporter in the world in 2013/14, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
9. Fertiliser plants manufacturing urea and connected to the national gas grid will get domestic gas pooled with imported gas at a uniform delivered price from July 1.
10. The Project Appraisal Committee on Technology Mission on Coconut has cleared 19 projects with an outlay of ₹21 crore and subsidy of ₹4.25 crore. Of these, 13 projects were for processing.of six key agricultural products, including tea, spices and tobacco, have registered negative growth in 2014-15, mainly due to decline in prices in global commodity markets.
2. Agricultural scientists stressed the urgent need to stop 'Jhum' (slash and burn method of farming in the hill tops) cultivation in the 8 North Eastern hilly states by providing settled and alternative farming methods and increasing the skills of young farmers toward this.
3. With prices faring at a 5 year low, Suicides up in troubled rubber belt in Kerala.
4. Heat waves in South claim 70 lakh birds, poultry industry suffers Rs 100 crore loss.
5. With pulses prices rising by up to 64 per cent in the last one year, the government plans to increase supplies to rein in prices as it looks at steps to keep inflation down amid forecast of deficit monsoon.
6. Wheat procurement up at 26.47 million tonnes; hailstorm, rains hit quality.
7. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has said it has started to detain imports from India of corn for feeding livestock to allow for testing of aflatoxins.
8. India was the sixth-largest corn exporter in the world in 2013/14, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
9. Fertiliser plants manufacturing urea and connected to the national gas grid will get domestic gas pooled with imported gas at a uniform delivered price from July 1.
10. The Project Appraisal Committee on Technology Mission on Coconut has cleared 19 projects with an outlay of ₹21 crore and subsidy of ₹4.25 crore. Of these, 13 projects were for processing.of six key agricultural products, including tea, spices and tobacco, have registered negative growth in 2014-15, mainly due to decline in prices in global commodity markets.
Exports of six key agricultural products, including tea, spices and
tobacco, have registered negative growth in 2014-15, mainly due to
decline in prices in global commodity markets.
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