Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) The IIHR is a subsidiary of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). The Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), which was set up in 1967, is India’s first-ever horticultural research institute and it …
About PMGSY The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), was launched in 2000 as centrally sponsored scheme to provide connectivity to unconnected habitations of designated population size (500+ in plain areas and 250+ in North-East, hill, tribal and desert areas …
About the Scheme The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme was introduced in 1998 with the aim of providing adequate and timely credit support from the banking system under a single window with flexible and simplified procedure to the farmers for …
What is a Farmer Producer Organization? A Producer Organisation (PO) is a legal entity formed by primary producers, viz. farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, rural artisans, craftsmen. A PO can be a producer company, a cooperative society or any other …
Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2005. Objective: It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by …
Summary Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first ever digital Union Budget for 2021-22. The key highlights of the Union Budget 2021-22 are as follows: 6 pillars of the Union Budget 2021-22: Health and Wellbeing …
CONTEXT After the February military coup, the future of Myanmar’s democracy is uncertain, but the country, sandwiched between two powerful states competing for power and influence, is certain to be a key piece in the region’s geopolitics. As the coup …
CONTEXT In recent times, movement led by farmers against the Central government’s agricultural laws has become a part of our national and international discourse. Besides the contentious legislation, the manner in which the Centre introduced the Bills and its actions …
Why in News? An automated computational tool – Infectious Pathogen Detector (IPD) – developed earlier by researchers at the Mumbai-based ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, to identify the presence of 1,060 different pathogens in any genome sequence sample and perform mutation …
Why in News? The first Arab interplanetary mission- HOPE- successfully reached Mars’ orbit to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. About the programme The unmanned probe — named “Al-Amal”, Arabic for “Hope” — was launched by the …