-Financial Express Higher sowing augurs well for bountiful wheat and oilseed production The resilience of India’s agricultural sector has been a positive factor in the India Growth story. During the ongoing rabi season, the average area sown for wheat is up by 25%, to 25.5 million hectares as of December 9, from a year earlier. Area under oilseeds, too, is at record levels. All of this augurs well for bumper rabi crops...

-ThePrint.in In a study published in the Nature journal Wednesday, scientists attributed the methane Growth in 2020 to wetland emission and changes in ‘atmospheric sink’. New Delhi: In 2020, the year Covid-19 pandemic led to global economic slowdown, researchers documented an alarming rise in atmospheric level of methane emissions, despite a drop in human-induced emissions. Scientists attributed the methane Growth rate anomaly to lower hydroxyl radical (OH), which is the main remover of...

-The Hindu Reaching the target by 2030-31 has to be ruled out, as it requires a nominal annual Growth rate of 18.2%; instead, the scenario can be 2033-34, with the required real rate of Growth at 9% The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has set Tamil Nadu the goal of becoming a trillion dollar economy (by 2030), as he has indicated over the past year. This is a good aspirational goal. Tamil...

-The Hindu  A steady stream of investments in rural locations over the last two decades has ensured that 42% of factories and 62% of fixed capital is in the rural side There is growing evidence to suggest that the most conspicuous trend in the manufacturing sector in India has been a shift of manufacturing activity and employment from bigger cities to smaller towns and rural areas. This ‘urban-rural manufacturing shift’ has often...

-India Spend India's transition to sustainable farming has to be calibrated and orchestrated well, drawing lessons from the successes of India's Green Revolution and the recent crisis in Sri Lanka, says sustainable farming expert P.S. Vijayshankar Bengaluru: The production-centric intensive agriculture brought about by India's Green Revolution in the 1960s, using high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and high levels of groundwater utilisation, helped India achieve food self-sufficiency by the 1970s, but has created a...