Agriculture PolicyBriefingAugust 18, 2020A Portal Makes Warehouses Across the Country Searchable; Reassures Users With Certification By vivian fernandes India is said to have 143 million tonnes of constructed storage capacity and while this is…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingAugust 16, 2020Govt says It's Banning 27 Pesticides Because Industry Hasn't Supplied Required Data; Not True, Says CCFI By vivian fernandes In July 2013, the government had set up a committee to review six neo-nicotinoids. A month later it…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyAugust 6, 2020The Agriculture Ministry Seems to be in a Hurry to Ban Commonly-used Pesticides By vivian fernandes Many of the chemical crop protection molecules proposed to be banned are in use in developed…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyAugust 6, 2020Restrictions on the Spraying of Weed Killer Glyphosate will Raise the Unease of Doing Agriculture By vivian fernandes If a technical body under the Insecticides Act overrules the objections, farmers will not be…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingHybridsJuly 27, 2020Will an Icrisat Discovery put More Pigeonpea Dal in Your Sambar? By vivian fernandes Researchers at Icrisat have discovered that temperature regulates male sterility and fertility in…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyJuly 24, 2020India Can Be a Big Seed Exporter says Ram Kaundinya of Federation of Seed Industry of India By vivian fernandes Indian can be a big seed exporter and can capture 10 percent of the world market, currently valued…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyJuly 20, 2020Govt is the Biggest Bottleneck to Achieving Self-Reliance in Seeds and Fertiliser: Ashok Gulati By vivian fernandes Agricultural economist Ashok Gulati sounds like a washing machine on perpetual spin in his weekly…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingJuly 1, 2020Indian Cooking Oil Sellers Want Malaysia and Indonesia to Help Give Palm Oil a Fair and Lovely Makeover By vivian fernandes India’s edible oil industry would like the Malaysian and Indonesian governments to give a fair and…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingJune 27, 2020Consumers Bought Premium Products During Lockdown; It was like Pani-Puri with Bisleri: Damodar Mall, Reliance Retail By vivian fernandes Participants made sweeping generalisations and even contradictory observations during an online…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyJune 24, 2020Lifting of Curbs on Farm Land Sale In Karnataka Will Create 'Thick' Markets, Benefit Famers, Says Researcher By vivian fernandes Shruti Rajagopalan, a research scholar at George Mason University in the United States has in an…Read more 0 0 0 Share
