All posts tagged "Agriculture"

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  Government Outlines Measures to Deal with Apparent Agricultural Distress

  Presenting the Union Budget in the Parliament, Arun Jaitley -Minister of Finance (FM) promised to reduce poverty, expedite infrastructure creation and build...

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  Union Budget 2018 : Take A Quick Glance And Find Out Which Sector Gets How Much

  The union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as the last one for the Narendra Modi government ahead of the...

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  Soil Health Cards: High Hopes, Low Returns

  Source: The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare  Recently, India celebrated the World Soil Day with a pledge of the Prime Minister...

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  Environment

  From Bread Basket To Basket Case

   Soumya Sarkar After degrading rich farmland through reckless use of chemical fertilisers and depleting aquifers by overusing groundwater – an outcome, ironically...

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  Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change

  Image: Outline India By Amarnath Tripathi Climate change has increasingly become an interesting area for researchers in India but most studies focus...

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  India Needs a Climate-smart Agriculture

  Photo Credit: Outline India    The success of policy-driven adaptation depends on the understanding of an entity’s vulnerability because it helps identify...

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  Integrating Weather Reporting in India: The Big Challenge

  Weather reporting has to get beyond launching a weather balloon [Image courtesy: NOAA Photo Library]   In India, weather forecasts have become...

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  Policy Hawks, Flying Blindly!

  In India, political leadership, public servants, and experts are busy in listing the benefits of the Goods Service Tax (GST). It seems...