ISRO's study using satellite data has estimated India’s total wheat production for the 2024-25 Rabi season at 122.724 million tonnes from eight major wheat-growing states.
About the study
It used the Comprehensive Remote Sensing Observation on Crop Progress (CROP) framework, which employs Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets from EOS-04, EOS-06, and Resourcesat-2A to monitor wheat sowing and crop conditions in near real-time.
CROP is a semi-automated, scalable framework, developed by NRSC/ISRO that enables the near real-time monitoring of crop sowing and harvesting during the Rabi season across India.
India has attracted global smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung due to a large talent pool, government subsidies, and geopolitical factors pushing companies to diversify from China.
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After successfully being able to localise smartphone assembly in the country for domestic consumption and some exports, the government has shifted its focus to deepening local value addition in the sector.
The key target: Driving up local value addition in the sector, reducing India’s import dependence on countries like China, and creating good quality jobs.
The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy of Kerala is set to undergo a thorough overhaul after a gap of 17 years.
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The Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) has constituted a six-member drafting committee headed by Chairman, Kerala State Biodiversity Board, for preparing the revised policy.
Kerala had first formulated an IPR policy in 2008, which will now undergo comprehensive revision.
