Farmers ask government to roll back 5% GST on raw tobacco

Tag: Farmers Government Tobacco Crops

A farmers association has asked the government to roll back 5 per cent GST on raw tobacco and exempt it from the tax bracket like any other agricultural crop.

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Bring down water requirements for agriculture

Tag: Agriculture-Practices Water Rainfall

India needs to promote agricultural practices that need less water for crop cultivation and give thrust to water conserv...

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Australia keen to assist in straw management in Haryana

Tag: Straw-Management Agriculture

Australia has evinced keen interest in assisting Haryana in the management of paddy straw. Paddy strawis a major reason...

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FSC to investigate Korindo’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Tag: Palm-Oil-Production Plantations

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), one of the world’s most influential sustainable forestry certification bodies, has ...

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Indonesian farmers befriend soil to protect harvests from climate stress

Tag: Farmers Soil Climate Agriculture

In early 2016, when fellow farmers were despairing over plummeting yields linked to a major drought, Hamdi was busy harvesting maize from his land.

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Soil health card initiative improved productivity

Tag: Soil-Health Paddy-Farming Fertilisers

Crop yields of oil seed have increased as high as 66% while the cost of producing paddy has gone down by as low as...

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Tea production up 1.41 per cent to 1,250 million Kg in 2016-17

Tag: India Tea-Production

India s tea production grew by 1.41 per cent to 1,250.49 million Kg in 2016-17 as against 1,233.14 million Kg in the previous year, the commerce ministry today said.

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Indian edible oils industry demands increase in import duty

Tag: Indian-Edible-Oils Demands Oilseeds

After two years of drought, the current year witnessed oilseed production rebounding. However, the increase in production...

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Israeli company to give technical tips to Punjab farmers

Tag: Digital-Agriculture Farmers Project

The Punjab government today gave in-principle approval to a pilot project under which an Israeli company would provide technical knowhow to farmers for boosting crop yield and farm income.

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Scientist who developed GM Mustard hopeful of government's nod

Tag: GM-Mustard Government Plants

The scientist who led the studies to develop a genetically modified, higher yielding mustard is hopeful that theenvironment ministry will soon grant permission for its commercial release.

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