BriefingMay 29, 2021Even Palm Oil Has Risen by Half to Rs 133 a Kg; Why are Cooking Oil Prices So High? By vivian fernandes The rise in cooking oil prices has jolted the government. The Department of Food and Public…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 26, 2021Crop Care Federation Issues Ad Charging MNCs With Sitting on Ag Chem Patents to Choke Competition By vivian fernandes Crop Care Federation of India is at it again. After taking on anti-GM activists in a full-page…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 25, 2021Yuan Longping, Father of Hybrid Rice, Dies; Mourners Throng to Pay Tributes By vivian fernandes Mourners at the Mingyangshan Funeral Home in Changsha. Photo Courtesy of Global Times. Yuan Longping…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMay 22, 2021How DAP is Subsidised and Priced? By vivian fernandes DAP or di-ammonium phosphate is the second most used fertiliser in India. In 2020-21, 11.91 million…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 21, 2021Pune-based Farm ERP Firm Ties Up With State Bank of India For an App to Enable Smallholder Farmers Keep Tab on Cost and Profit By vivian fernandes It is said that if you can measure it you can manage it. Most farmers are unable to manage cost of…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMay 13, 2021Sri Lanka Bans Chemical Fertilisers; Could Become World's first Organic-only State By vivian fernandes Sri Lanka has banned the import of chemical fertilisers and agrochemicals at a decision its cabinet…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingMay 5, 2021Poly House Cultivation is Not Profitable without Subsidy, HP University Researchers Find By vivian fernandes Is protected cultivation in poly houses profitable? Indervir Singh, Faculty Member of the Central…Read more 0 0 Share