-The Indian Express Who is the rightful owner of the potato variety, FL 2027? Is it the farmer who bought, planted, harvested the potatoes from his own farm, or is it the innovator who cross-bred and modified the potato to have a low moisture content for crispier chips? There could not have been a better heading for the IE editorial (April 30) on PepsiCo’s infringement suit against the farmers who have...
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Growth in Agri GVA deflator saw a rising trend between 2005-06 & 2009-10, despite using different sources of back-series data
The year-on-year (y-o-y) growth rate in Agri Gross Value Added (GVA) deflator (an alternative measure of inflation) shows a rising trend between 2005-06 and 2009-10. In other words, price rise pertaining to the agrarian sector accelerated during the period under discussion. This particular trend has been observed irrespective of whether one uses the GVA/GDP back-series data (Base 2011-12=100) that was computed by the National Institution for Transforming India Aayog (NITI Aayog)...
More »Gujarat: File case on toor dal scam, says Congress MLA as quality checks on
-The Indian Express The checking of bags of toor dal lying in the yard of Visavadar Agricultural Produce Market Committee began on Sunday after Congress MLA of Visavadar Harshad Ribadiya staged a dharna outside the office of the district collector of Junagadh. Rajkot (Gujarat): Teams of Gujarat State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited (GSCSCL) and National Agricultural Cooperative Market-ing Federation (NAFED) of India Limited continued their quality check on 24,000 bags of toor...
More »30 per cent of poll code violations registered in BJP-ruled UP, says Election Commission -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express In UP, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan has been mentioned in 12 cases of alleged violations. Final decisions by the EC are awaited in several of these cases. NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh, which is witnessing a fierce political battle in this political season, topped the list of states which registered cases of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) violations, according to data from the...
More »Chandigarh: Farm activists demand action on 'illegal' Bt Brinjal cultivation in Haryana -Seema Sharma
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: Farm activists have demanded imMediate action on suspected illegal Bt Brinjal cultivation in Haryana. Sharing their findings with Media persons in Chandigarh on Wednesday, the activists said that while acting on a tip-off about the same, they collected sample from the impugned farm, and conducted a lateral flow strip test for detection of Bt Cry1AC protein test which showed a positive result of the suspected sample...
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