Author: Apoorva Sharma

Minimum Support Price

April 4, 2018

Minimum Support Price (MSP) is the price fixed by the Government of India for some of the listed agricultural crops in the market. It is a kind of market intervention to insure the farmers against any sharp fall in crop prices during bumper crop production. Minimum Support Prices are announced by the Cabinet Committee of […]

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Climate Change and Agriculture

February 22, 2018

Climate change, be it through changes in the biosphere, biodiversity or natural resources, is adversely affecting human health and wellbeing for ages. Throughout the century, the world is anticipated to encounter warming of atmosphere. In recent years, the heat waves longevity has extended with hotter days and warmer nights which has led to increased variability […]

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Genetically Modified Organisms and Agriculture

January 22, 2018

For many years, people have been altering the genomes of plants and animals using traditional breeding techniques. Artificial selection for specific and desired traits has ultimately resulted in a variety of organisms under categories of Crop plants, farm animals, and soil bacteria majorly. But this artificial selection has been limited to naturally occurring variations only. […]

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Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture

January 17, 2018

ICT encloses all the telecommunication technologies such as the radio, television, mobile phone, computers, satellite technology; internet including email, instant messaging, video conferencing, social networking and other media applications which enable the users across the world to access, fetch, retrieve, share, transmit, store or modify the digital information. These telecommunication mediums have made the world […]

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Banned Pesticides in India

January 17, 2018

DO YOU KNOW!! BANNING OF PESTICIDES ORDER, 2016 According to The Gazette of India No. 3084J dated 28th December 2016, use of these pesticides are banned in India. Benomyl (i)The registration, import and manufacture is prohibited henceforth and its use is completely banned w.e.f. 1 st January, 2018. (ii) A cautionary statement has to be […]

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