What’s in the news? Union Minister of State for Fisheries and Information & Broadcasting Dr. L. Murugan said that India has made it clear that it will not succumb to pressures to withdraw subsidies for the fisheries sector at the …
What’s the news? Recently, a paper titled “Integrated farming with intercropping increases food production while reducing environmental footprint” appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). Some of the Indian Farming Practices mentioned are as follows …
CONTEXT Livestock breeding in India has been largely unorganised because of which there have been gaps in forward and backward integration across the value chain. Such a scenario impacts the quality of livestock that is produced and in turn negatively …
Background India has been a founding member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is a signatory to the multilateral Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), which, among other things, regulates domestic subsidies granted by governments in the agricultural sector. The implementation …
About AIF The Government of India launched the Central Sector Scheme of financing facility under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) in 2020. AIF is a medium – long term debt financing facility for investment in viable projects for post-harvest management …
What’s in the news? Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar has announced that the Centre has created a National Farmers’ Database with records of 5.5 crore farmers by taking data from existing national schemes such as …
About GMOs Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be defined as organisms i.e. plants, animals or microorganisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating or by natural recombination. The …
What is food fortification? Food fortification is defined as the practice of deliberately increasing the content of an essential micronutrient, i.e. vitamins and minerals (including trace elements) in a food, to improve the nutritional quality of the food supply and …