LUCKNOW: Adopting agriculture diversity is the demand of time in order to boost agriculture production in the state and for this all departments associated with agriculture production will have to

The State government has released a sum of Rs 9.05 crore to be disbursed to ‘Thane’ cyclone-affected farmers, who had been enlisted but are yet to get relief, said V. Sampath, Collector.

Addressing an official meeting here, he said the cyclone destroyed agricultural and horticultural crops and fishing resources in Vanur, Marakkanam, Koliyanur, Kandamangalam, Thirunavalur and Thiruvennainallur panchayat unions in the district.

New Delhi: The Delhi government has decided to increase vigilance at wholesale fruit markets to check use of hazardous chemicals for ripening fruits.

Tropical fruits – full of rich nutrients and health properties – are adapted to hot and humid environments. Many tropical fruit species might spread beyond their current geographical limit whereas some species might exhibit irregular bearing of fruit.

Historically, the jackfruit has always enjoyed the status of a holy tree in Sri Lanka. Named baat gasa or ‘rice tree’ it is said to have saved Lankans from hunger in a crisis. Jackfruit has social and religious connotations in Sri Lanka too. In recent years it is the economic significance of jackfruit that has grown. Since the past 10 years HORDI, funded by the International Centre for Underutilized Crops (ICUC), has trained free of cost, street vendors, housewives and entrepreneurs in minimal processing, dehydration, and bottling technologies.

A price increase and improvement in the terms of trade of agriculture after 2004-05 have revived agriculture in Uttar Pradesh. The performance, however, has varied across regions within the state and among crop groups. Price policies in favour of cereals discourage land diversification, but rising agricultural wages induce shifts in favour of high-value crops. The growth momentum has to be sustained by price reforms and by promoting a set of non-price factors that encourages resource diversification towards high-value crops.

KOLKATA, 28 JUNE: The state forest department minister Hiten Barman announced the doubling of compensation to the next of kin of anyone dying in man-animal conflict at the state Assembly today.

SHILLONG: An amount of Rs 493.13 crore was released by the Centre under the Horticulture Mission for the North East & Himalayan States during the year 2011-12.

Our earlier studies reported development of transgenic strawberry for salinity stress and standardization of transformation protocol. In view of the projections of global climate change and their implications on the ability of strawberry to adapt to such changes, we extended our studies to know the possible role of such transgenic plants in contributing to
sustainable strawberry production and also made some basic studies to analyse the behaviour of osmotin (transgene)/in vitro-regenerated transgenic strawberry plants.

At least 40 fruit trees have been axed to construct a residential complex on Rajpur Road which has not even been approved by the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority.

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