-TheWire.in * The Parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and Fertilisers has produced a report highlighting gaps in the availability of COVID-19 drugs and devices during the pandemic. * The committee has asked the national government why PSUs didn’t receive licenses to make COVID drugs when private manufacturers did. * The MPs on the committee also spotlighted widespread irrational drug use in COVID-19 management, despite the existence of a standard treatment protocol. New Delhi: The...
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India’s natural, organic farming strategy for rice and wheat -K Nagaiah, G Srimannarayana, and Phaniraj G
-Down to Earth This can help in targeting global export market, thereby feeding the world population and getting valuable foreign exchange for the country India is predominantly agrarian — 80 per cent of the population is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture. Rice and wheat are the staple for 90 per cent of the country’s people. Till the early 1960’s, the predominant mode of cultivation was what is now called “organic farming”, with...
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