| Surinder Sud: Zeroing in on tillage | 17-NOV-09 |
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| The specialised zero-tillage seed drill, which could sow seeds in fields without ploughing it, was introduced by the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Pakistan much before it was brought into India. Yet, the zero-tillage system of cultivation, one of the key technologies under the environment-friendly conservation agriculture, has proved a bigger success here than it did in Pakistan. |
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| Area under wheat in Punjab to touch 35.20 lakh hectares | 13-NOV-09 |
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| There might be political uproar over the meager revision of MSP of wheat (Rs 20 per quintal hike), but the farmers in Punjab are firm on expanding the area under wheat cultivation. The state agriculture department is hopeful that this year also the total area under wheat would surpass the designated target of 35.20 lakh hectares. |
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| Punjab rejects wheat MSP fixed by Centre | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today rejected the hike of Rs 20 per quintal in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for wheat by the Centre, raising it to Rs 1,100 from last year’s Rs 1,080 per quintal. He described it as ‘woefully inadequate and unjustified’. |
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| Avesthagen forms JV with Limagrain | 28-OCT-09 |
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| Avesthagen, a Bangalore-based life sciences firm, has announced the formation of a joint venture (JV) with Limagrain, a French international cooperative group. Limagrain will hold the majority 51 per cent in the JV, Atash Seeds Pvt Ltd, to build a agri-biotech business model for field crops. |
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| Rice output to slump by 16 mn tonnes: FM | 23-OCT-09 |
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| Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has apprehended that rice production this year could be 16 million tonnes below the 2008-09 level due to twin-impact of drought and floods. |
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| Wheat carryover stock to rise 140% this year | 23-OCT-09 |
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| India’s wheat carryover stock may rise 140 per cent in the next financial year on favourable climate leading to a near bumper crop estimates during the ensuing rabi season. |
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| CSA develops heat resistant wheat varieties | 12-OCT-09 |
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| The Kanpur-based Chandra Shekhar Azad (CSA) agriculture university has developed two new heat resistant varieties of wheat to tackle the challenges posed by global warming. |
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| Punjab mills ready to buy wheat from govt via tender | 07-OCT-09 |
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| Punjab millers have expressed their readiness to buy the foodgrain under the current tender system to immediately get the raw material to run their mills, a day after the flour owners' federation's call to shift to 'first come, first serve' basis. |
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| Wheat export ban to stay | 07-OCT-09 |
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| India, the world’s second-biggest producer of wheat, won’t end a ban on exports of the cereal to avoid food shortages after drought and floods damaged crops of rice and sugar cane. |
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| Global wheat trade may slump by 17% | 05-OCT-09 |
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| The global wheat trade is likely to decline by 17 per cent to 666 million tonnes (MT) in 2009-10 due to lower purchases in the Middle East and north Africa, UK-based International Grains Council (IGC) said. |
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