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Landraces

In News  Recently, Rahibai Popere popularly known as Seedmother, from Maharashtra was awarded Padma Shri Award for recognition of her work to save hundreds of landraces (wild varieties of commonly grown crops) at the village level. What are Landraces?  They refer to naturally occurring variants of commonly cultivated crops.  These are as opposed to commercially […]

Rise in suicides among farmworkers: NCRB

In News The number of agricultural labourers who died by suicide in 2020 was 18% higher than the previous year,  The data was published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.  However, suicides among landowning farmers dropped slightly during the pandemic year. Farmers suicide in 2020 Overall, 10,677 people engaged in the farm sector […]

Zojila Tunnel

In Context The government is pushing to complete the massive Zojila tunnel before Republic Day, 2024. About  The Zojila tunnel will be India’s longest road tunnel and Asia’s longest bi-directional tunnel.  The first part involves the development and expansion of the 18.475-km highway between Z-Morh to Zojila.  A 3-km stretch will be expanded; the rest […]

First Herbicide-tolerant & Non-GM rice varieties

In News  Recently, the Prime Minister of India officially released new varieties of rice named ‘Pusa Basmati 1979 ‘and ‘Pusa Basmati 1985’. About  The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) developed the country’s first-ever non-GM (genetically modified) herbicide-tolerant rice varieties. The varieties contain a mutated acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene making it possible for farmers to spray […]

Production of millets in India

In News Recently, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare urged the present generation to understand the importance of nutritious food grains like millets and make them a part of their daily diet. More in News  He Inaugurated the two-day “Nutri-Cereal Multi-Stakeholders’ Mega Convention 3.0” at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC). Nutri-Cereal Multi-Stakeholders’ […]

Digital Agriculture

In News The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare has signed 5 MOUs with private companies for taking forward Digital Agriculture. MOUs aimed at increasing farmers’ income and protecting their produce. What is Digital Agriculture? A Digital agriculture mission has been initiated for 2021 -2025 by the government for projects based on new technologies. The […]

Rice Fortification

In News Recently, a webinar is being held on “Rice Fortification: A complementary approach to address Nutritional Anaemia”. About It was organised to mark the ongoing 4th Rashtriya Poshan Mah. Organised by: Department of Food and Public Distribution under Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Ministry of Women and Child Development with […]

Centre hikes MSP for Rabi Crops

In News The Centre has increased the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat for the upcoming rabi season to ?2,015 per quintal, a 2% hike from last year. Oilseeds and pulses such as mustard, safflower and masoor dal saw higher MSP increases of up to 8% in a bid to encourage crop diversification. About Minimum […]

Fortification of Rice

In News  Recently the Prime Minister of India announced fortification of rice distributed under various government schemes including the Public Distribution System (PDS) and Mid-Day-Meal scheme by 2024. Rationale Behind the move Malnutrition is a big hurdle in the development of women and children. In view of this, it has been decided to fortify the […]

PM-KISAN Scheme

In News The Prime Minister released the 9th instalment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). About The government has so far transferred nine installments amounting around ?1.57 lakh crore to farmer families under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme. Also, in a bid to reduce the country’s dependency on […]