Conserve Each and Every Drop of Water on Earth: Avinash Mishra
In the past few decades, rivers in India are depleting drastically due to various factors like over-extraction, deforestation, pollution from […]
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Telangana devises ways to reduce irrigation water usage for paddy
In a reply to T Chinappa Reddy during a session in the Legislative Council on March 11, Niranjan Reddy, Agriculture […]
SourceTrace and ThinkAg Conference in New explored traceability in agriculture
SourceTrace, an Agritech company, in collaboration with ThinkAg, recently hosted a conference on traceability in agriculture in the national capital. […]
A Spring in the Step of Our Farmers
For readers, it may be revealing to know that bigger States like Punjab and Haryana pay the middle men (arthiyas) […]
Himanshu Goyal – How AI helps agriculture in India survive critical weather
During an unseasonal rain in April 2018, farmers in the districts of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh lost a […]
Icrisat launches low-cost phablet to empower small farmers
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) launced a customised low-cost combination phone and tablet computer called […]
Moving Towards Agricultural Mechanisation
“We want to bring almost 39 lakh farmers of the state under the SMS-based alert system in the next one year,” […]
Better infrastructure for farmers
A K Yadav Managing Director, The Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd (HAFED) “As an organization, HAFED is […]
Ensuring transparency through IT
Sanjeev Chadha, Director, Directorate of Horticulture Government of Odisha “Bhubaneswar is the first city in the country to have online […]
ICT to promote eco-friendly tools in agriculture
Farm Radio International has found that radio station call centres can increase adoption rate by up to 14 %. Also […]
