What’s the news? The Union Health minister in his address to commemorate World Malaria Day 2022 has called for prioritization of malaria elimination and said leveraging technology and innovation will help in developing tailor-made solutions to advance India’s malaria elimination …
About DigiLocker DigiLocker is a flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY). Linked to both Aadhaar card and cellphone numbers, DigiLocker eliminates the use of physical documents as part of the government’s Digital India drive, since all …
About the scheme The Soil Health Card (SHC) scheme is promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare to provide information to farmers on nutrient status of their soil along with recommendations on appropriate dosage of nutrients to be …
Cooperatives have been contributing substantially to our economy — accounting for about 30 per cent of sugar, 20 per cent of milk, 30 per cent of fertilisers and 15 per cent of agricultural credit. While there are sterling examples of …
Background Fertilizers are crucial productivity augmenting inputs. To meet the challenge of rising demand for food, feed, and fibre with limited land and water resources, it is imperative to augment land productivity and one way to do this is to …
What’s the news? Palli village in Jammu’s Samba district has become the country’s first panchayat to become carbon neutral, fully powered by solar energy and with all its records digitized and saturation of benefits of all the Central schemes. News …
What are Invasive Alien Species Invasive alien species are plants, animals, pathogens and other organisms that are non-native to an ecosystem, and which may cause economic or environmental harm or adversely affect human health. In particular, they impact adversely upon …
Palm oil is the world’s most widely used vegetable oil with its global production in crop year 2020 exceeding 73 million tonnes (MT). Output is estimated to be 77 MT for the current year. Made from the African oil palm, …