Modern Agriculture India

US welcomes India's move of reducing tariffs on agricultural products The United States has welcomed the recent Indian move to reduce tariffs on several American agricultural products. Last week, India agreed to reduce...

Need to boost crop productivity with new technologies: India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant Synopsis Digitisation of agriculture, the technological transformation and innovation in the farm sector has been the central priority pushed in...

Seeds for growth: How technology can boost Indian agriculture New seed technologies supported by scientific validation and enabling regulatory mechanisms offer significant advantages for sustainable agriculture at little additional cost Agriculture and allied...

India's kharif crop planting area rises; paddy leading year-on-year Synopsis Commodity-wise, paddy sowing is at 328.22 lakh hectares, as against 312.80 lakh hectares same period last year. Notably, India in July amended the...

India to import tomatoes from Nepal amid surge in price, says Nirmala Sitharaman Synopsis Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that India will be importing tomatoes from Nepal, amid a record...

Robust rains accelerate rice planting in India Indian farmers have planted 28.3 million hectares (69.9 million acres) with summer-sown rice, according to the farm ministry's latest data, up 3.28% from the same period...

Agritech platform Arya.ag partners with SOPA Synopsis As part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), SOPA will receive information, datasets, maps, and data-enriched secure APIs for their subscribed districts, spanning Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,...

Govt launches digital crop survey in 12 states on pilot basis Synopsis The Centre has launched digital crop survey in 12 states on a pilot basis from kharif (summer-sown) season of this year...