The word agriculture is a late Middle English adaptation of Latin agricultūra, from ager 'field' and cultūra 'cultivation' or 'growing'. While agriculture usually refers to human activities, certain species of ant, termite and beetle have been cultivating crops for up to 60 million years. Agriculture is defined with varying scopes, in its broadest sense using natural resources to More
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Sep 30, 2022 11:17 AM IST “The private sector has been holding up. Rural demand is also gaining gradually, investment demand is picking up...the agricultural sector remains resilient,” Shaktikanta Das said.
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Sep 24, 2022 12:18 PM IST Haryana BKU (Chaduni) chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni said the decision to end the stir was taken after the government agreed to consider procuring 30 quintals of paddy per acre instead of the earlier 22 quintals.
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Sep 23, 2022 09:30 AM IST Speaking to reporters in Siricilla on Thursday, he said if the Electricity (Amendment) Bill brought in by the Central government turns into an Act, farmers would lose free power, Scheduled Caste members, Scheduled Tribe persons, poultry farmers, washermen, barbers, weavers, and others will have to bid goodbye to power subsidies.
Sep 21, 2022 07:01 PM IST The agriculture ministry has released the first advance estimates for kharif season of 2022-23 crop year (July-June).
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Aug 26, 2022 01:21 PM IST The need of the hour is to bring people out of farming, which is largely a loss-making enterprise, said the veteran farm leader.
Aug 25, 2022 08:22 PM IST The normal date for withdrawal of the southwest monsoon is September 17.
Aug 25, 2022 03:00 PM IST According to a senior food ministry official, the nation's sugar exports are predicted to fall by 28.57 at roughly 8 million tonne in the 2022–23 season due to anticipated lower opening balance stock and higher diversion for ethanol.
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Aug 21, 2022 09:08 PM IST In case of pulses, total sown area was down by 7.08 lakh hectare at 125.57 lakh hectare till August 18 of this kharif season from the year-ago period.
Aug 20, 2022 04:19 PM IST Addressing a public meeting at the municipal council ground in Paonta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmour district, Nadda claimed that no other government worked so much for the farmers as the current dispensation.
Aug 19, 2022 12:04 PM IST Farmers can benefit from a sensible agriculture export policy. Instead, exports are held hostage to a shortage mentality and knee jerk reactions to price spikes
Aug 17, 2022 03:03 PM IST The Union Ministry of Agriculture estimates that the current production of food grains will be 315.72 million tonnes in the year 2021-22.
Aug 13, 2022 07:46 PM IST Total rice acreage in the South Asian nation, the world’s second-biggest grower, has fallen 12% so far this season, according to the farm ministry.
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