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Magical mushroom: Scaling up Ganoderma lucidum cultivation will benefit farmers, users -Arvind Bijalwan and Kalpana Bahuguna

-Down to Earth Ganoderma lucidum has over 400 chemical constituents with medicinal properties Ganoderma lucidum is a medicinal mushroom in use for centuries to heal diseases like diabetes, cancer, inflammation, ulcer as well as bacterial and skin infections. In India, however, the potential of the fungus is still being explored.  It is considered one of the most important medicinal mushrooms in the world since its chemical constituents exhibit numerous medicinal properties. They have...

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Wheat export at 70.30 lakh tonnes till Mar 21 this fiscal: Govt tells Parliament

-PTI/ Business Standard "The total export of Wheat in terms of quantity during 2021-22 (till 21st March 2022) was 70.30 LMT" The total Wheat export stood at 70.30 lakh tonnes till March 21 this fiscal, with maximum shipments to Bangladesh followed by Sri Lanka and UAE, Parliament was informed on Friday. As both Ukraine and Russia are major exporters of Wheat with more than 25 per cent total share in the global Wheat...

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How Will India Fare in the Brewing Global Food and Fertiliser Crisis? -Kaushal Shroff

-TheWire.in According to a research note by SBI, for every one dollar of increase in the pooled gas rate, India’s fertiliser subsidy bill shoots up by Rs 4,000-5,000 crore. There is no such thing as a localised conflict in a globalised world. Sooner rather than later, fallouts from the Russia-Ukraine war will overwhelm the operations of developed and developing economies alike, leading up to the largest, and possibly, the worst food crisis...

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Government extends free ration scheme by six months

-The Hindu Pandemic relief was to end in March 2022. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) for another six months till September 2022. The scheme was originally introduced in April 2020 a month into the first lockdown during the initial onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the sixth phase of PM-GKAY. The Phase-V of the scheme was...

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Soaring prices of Wheat also have broad implications -Vivek Kaul

-Livemint.com Painful food inflation has stoked political unrest in many countries before and could do so again In order to understand the political and economic repercussions of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, analysts and economists have been concentrating on the rise of crude oil and natural gas prices, among other things. This isn’t surprising given that Russia is the world’s second largest exporter of oil and the largest exporter of natural gas. But...

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