Agriculture

  Agroforestry   Slogan for promoting agroforestry is: Har Medh Par Pedh Agroforestry is the combination of agricultural and forestry technologies to create integrated diverse and productive land use systems. It is a complex land management system of deliberate growing agriculture with forest and animal Husbandry for maximum production and income on the same unit of land as an agriculture simultaneously which become multi functional and given diverse benefits. It has been applied in both small and on large tract of land, where in small unit, trees are grown surrounding the agricultural unit;while in large tract of land, trees are aligned or grown in rows with agricultural crops in alternate manner. It has three main components that are:  Agricultural crops  Forest trees Livestock or animal husbandry  Based on these three components, there are three types of agroforestry technological practices : Agri-silviculture agroforestry : Here agri means agricultural crops...

    Gopal Ratna Award for Dairy Sector   Every year,the first day of June is observed as World Milk Day. The Minister announced the launch of the National Awards for the Cattle and Dairy sector, the Gopal Ratna Awards.  The award has three categories -   Best Dairy farmer,  Best Artificial Insemination Technician (AIT)   Best Dairy Cooperative/ Milk producer Company/ FPO.  Note- He mentioned that eligible farmers/dairy cooperative societies/ AI technicians can apply for award online and portal for award will open from 15th July 2021. Winners for the award will be announced on 31st October 2021. e-GOPALA app (Generation of wealth through Productive Livestock), a comprehensive breed improvement marketplace and information portal for direct use of farmers, had been launched by Hon’ble PM on 10th September 2020.  India is a global leader amongst dairying nations and produced 198.4 million tonnes of milk during 2019-20. Value of output o...

Background:  Edible oil crisis in India  On an average, the annual demand in India is 24 million tonnes of edible oils  While production of oils like palm oils, mustard oils, soybean oils, groundnut oils and sunflower oils are in India is only 8 to 11 million tonnes annually. India imports 13.35 million tonnes ( 133.50 lakh tonnes) oils costing 80 thousands crores. To meet this demand Government of I ndia imports 60% of its oil demand from foreign countries. It means India's edible oils dependency is more than how much it produce. To reduce this dependency  government planning to distribute free of cost soybean and palm oils seeds for boosting oil seeds production. Whenever prices of oils in international market increases the oil prices goes high immediately in India and leads to inflation. Now India looking for green revolution for oils prodution. India is the world's biggest cooking oil importer over the past two decades because:  population has increas...

AmbiTAG IITRopar develops "AmbiTAG"- India's first indigenous temperature data logger for the cold chain management

    Rural Development in India   Government of India has launched two app for the transparency and accountability in the MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL  RURAL EMPLOYMENT GAURANTEE SCHEME (MGNREGS). These two app are: National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) app The  NMMS App   will help to take a real time attendance of workers at MGNREGS' place of  work  along with locational photograph, which will increase citizen oversight of the programme and will make payment facilities faster of their work. Area officer monitoring (AOM)app Area Officer Monitoring App facilitates to the officials to record their findings online along with time stamped, tagged photograph for all the schemes - Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, PMAYG (pradhan mantri awas yojana  gramin), PMGSY(pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana) . This would enable them to keep better record of inspections and to facilitate  for analysis of the findings for better programme implementation. Benefits: Tra...

Fertilizers subsidy increased for 2021 Kharif Formers benefited and Government getting loss

  National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm The Government of India through the National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm has the objective to augment the availability of edible oils and reduce the import of edible oils by increasing the production and productivity of oilseeds and oil palm. To this end a multi-pronged strategy is being adopted which includes the following: Increasing the seed replacement ratio with focus on varietal replacement Increasing irrigation coverage Nutrient management Intercropping with cereals/pulses/sugarcane Productivity improvement and adoption of proven and climate-resilient technologies Area expansion through diversification of low yielding food grains. Targeting rice fallow areas and high potential districts Promotion in non-traditional states Encouraging mechanization Research projects Training of farmers and extension officials Supporting cluster demonstrations for the adoption of good agricultural practices Creation of 36 oilseed hubs with a foc...