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World Food Prize 2025

Source: DTE  Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria has been awarded the World Food Prize 2025 for her pioneering work in Biological...

20 May 2025 Cropping Patterns

MSP for Jute

Source: TH  The Jute Corporation of India (JCI) has increased the minimum selling price (MSP) of jute for crop year 2025-26 to discourage...

16 May 2025 Cropping Patterns

Millets for Sustainable Agriculture

This editorial is based on "The paddy pivot: Rethinking subsidies to drive sustainable farming", published in Financial Express on 05/05/2025. The...

10 May 2025 Cropping Patterns

Balancing Ethanol Production with Sustainability

For Prelims: Ethanol, Ethanol blends, Photochemical smog, Methane, Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana, Carbon credits  For Mains: Ethanol Blending...

19 Apr 2025 Cropping Patterns

Decline in India’s Cotton Production

For Prelims: Cotton, Bt cotton, Genetically modified (GM) crop, whitefly, Pink bollworm, Kasturi Cotton  For Mains: Challenges in...

01 Apr 2025 Cropping Patterns

Transforming Northeast India into a Saffron Hub

Source: PIB  India has identified the Northeast as India’s next saffron cultivation hub, following Jammu & Kashmir’s Pampore....

17 Mar 2025 Cropping Patterns

Strengthening India's Spice Industry

Source: TH  Why in News? The World Spice Organisation (WSO) highlights that despite being the largest spice producer, India holds just 0.7% of...

10 Mar 2025 Cropping Patterns

Tea industry and Jhumoir Dance

For Prelims: Jhumoir dance, Tea, Geographical Indication, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana  For Mains: Tea Industry in India –...

03 Mar 2025 Cropping Patterns

Farmers' Earning in Agri Produce: RBI

Source: IE  Why in News? The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) conducted a pan-India survey on farmers’s share in consumer prices in rabi...

01 Mar 2025 Cropping Patterns

Boosting India's Rubber Industry

For Prelims: Rubber Board, Rubber,  National Rubber Policy (NRP) 2019, European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), EU, European...

20 Jan 2025 Cropping Patterns

National Turmeric Board

Source: PIB  Why in News?  The Ministry of Commerce & Industry launched the National Turmeric Board (NTB) with its headquarters at...

16 Jan 2025 Cropping Patterns

Changing Trends in Fertilizer Use

For Prelims: Fertiliser, Fertilizer Subsidy, Urea, DAP, Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) Scheme  For Mains: Issues Related with Fertiliser...

13 Dec 2024 Cropping Patterns

Sustainability Concerns in India’s Agricultural Export Growth

For Prelims: Tea, Sugar,  Cropping patterns, National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Sub-mission...

15 Nov 2024 Cropping Patterns

First Advance Estimates for Kharif Crop Production

For Prelims: Kharif crop, Digital Crop Survey, Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM), Girdawari method, Gross Domestic Product, Digital Public...

07 Nov 2024 Cropping Patterns

Sustainable Agriculture to Recover Groundwater

For Prelims: Groundwater, Rice cultivation, Cropping patterns, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Global Warming, sustainable...

12 Oct 2024 Cropping Patterns

Weed-Induced Crop Losses

For Prelims: kharif crops, rabi crops, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, herbicides, mechanization, weed management, organic and sustainable farming...

11 Oct 2024 Cropping Patterns

World Cotton Day 2024

Source: PIB On the occasion of World Cotton Day (7th October 2024) the Ministry of Textiles jointly hosted the conference with Cotton Corporation of...

09 Oct 2024 Cropping Patterns

Need of Reforms in Tea Industry

For Prelims: Tea Industry, Extreme Weather Events, Pesticide, Dooars, Terai, Nilgiris, Tea Board of India, Landslides, E-Commerce Technologies,...

19 Sep 2024 Cropping Patterns

Need for Reforms in the Jute Industry

For Prelims: Natural Fibre, Alluvial Soil, Water Hyacinth, Marginal and Small Farmers, Carbon Sequestration, Geotextiles, Jute Packaging Materials...

16 Sep 2024 Cropping Patterns

India Becomes Net Importer of Maize

For Prelims: Ethanol Production, Minimum Support Price, White Revolution, Ethanol Blended Petrol, Sugar for Ethanol Production For Mains: Impact...

07 Sep 2024 Cropping Patterns