1. Soil Fertility Testing cards will be issued to all the Farmer's in the country by the next 3 years, the Indian P.M is quoted as saying.
2. Mobile Soil Fertility testing vans are being deployed one in every district of Andhra Pradesh.
3. Andhra Pradesh Govt. issued orders that if anyone resorts to Artificial ripening of fruits using Carbide, a 6 months jail and 1 Lakh penalty will be handed over to them.
4. One in every Five food items in the country are found to be of low quality and misleading the customers. Uttarpradesh, Madhyapradesh and Punjab are the top Three states in the category of states compromising on Food Security.
5. Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gases (Global Warming) and El Nino are said to be taking a toll on the wheat crop s as late planting in the hottest year on record is set to delay the harvest and severyly hit farm yields, magnifying rural distress.
6. With no end in sight to the pricing tussle with Mahyco-Monsanto – the Bt cotton technology provider – the seed industry has approached the Centre to intervene and resolve the knotty issue. Invoking the Patent Act, Competition Act or the Environment Protection Act, the industry asked the government to help fix the price of cottonseed, including the royalty fee (or trait value).
2. Mobile Soil Fertility testing vans are being deployed one in every district of Andhra Pradesh.
3. Andhra Pradesh Govt. issued orders that if anyone resorts to Artificial ripening of fruits using Carbide, a 6 months jail and 1 Lakh penalty will be handed over to them.
4. One in every Five food items in the country are found to be of low quality and misleading the customers. Uttarpradesh, Madhyapradesh and Punjab are the top Three states in the category of states compromising on Food Security.
5. Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gases (Global Warming) and El Nino are said to be taking a toll on the wheat crop s as late planting in the hottest year on record is set to delay the harvest and severyly hit farm yields, magnifying rural distress.
6. With no end in sight to the pricing tussle with Mahyco-Monsanto – the Bt cotton technology provider – the seed industry has approached the Centre to intervene and resolve the knotty issue. Invoking the Patent Act, Competition Act or the Environment Protection Act, the industry asked the government to help fix the price of cottonseed, including the royalty fee (or trait value).
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