NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient and biofortified varieties of 61 crops, including 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops, and suggested that the ‘Krishi Vigyan Kendras’ (KVKs) – agri extension centres – should proactively inform farmers about the benefits of the new varieties as it will help them…
NEW DELHI: In a strong message to investors and opponents, PM Modi Tuesday said his govt was not lacking in political will to take decisions based on a “nation first” approach and urged “wealth creators to be the primary driving force” of development, in what was seen as a retort to Congress’s repeated allegations of…
NEW DELHI: While silent on legal guarantee to procurement of crops at minimum support price (MSP), BJP‘s manifesto on Sunday talked of the party’s promise of continuing to increase MSP from “time to time”.The party promised to “further incentivise” crop diversification to make agriculture “sustainable and remunerative” – a pitch it had made to protesting…
