The expert committee set up under the chairmanship of Prof. A Vaidyanathan to suggest ways to improve agricultural statistics has called for using remote sensing and restructuring the data collectionmachinery. In its interim report, the expert committee has recommended setting up of the National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) to deal with all aspects of crop area and yield estimation.
About 1,000 farmers from across the State will be trained as 'plant doctors' at a three-day training beginning Thursday, in Chitradurga.
The programme, funded by the Agriculture Department and the Bio-control Research Laboratories (BCRL) and supported by the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), aims to create a pool of plant health workers to run 72 independent, community-b
VILLUPURAM: Uzhavar Mandrams have become a mechanism for farmers to access modern agricultural technology to increase yield and improve their standard of living, according to Collector R.
An intensive scheme has been taken up to bring some 1.50 lakh hectares of land under IRRI-Boro cultivation in 11 upazilas of the district with an output target of 5.62 lakh mts rice.
With a view to improving the life of women farmers in the State and bringing consistency in them, arrangements have been made in all districts to provide training to the women farmers which would help them choose farming technique with lesser cost, to understand and also for adopting it.
KOHIMA, Dec 15: The Minister for the Development of the North-Eastern Region (DoNER) BK Handique today called upon the policy planners and farmers of the Northeast to adopt fusion of traditional practices and modern technologies to make agriculture sustainable in the region.
Handique pointed out that the agricultural practices continued in the region basing on knowledge and wisdom of various co
