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Onion output likely to be more than last year in FY22; potato slightly less -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

-Business Standard Total horticulture production pegged at 333.3 million tonnes in 2021-22, outstripping foodgrains output again India’s potato and tomato production could be marginally less in 2021-22 as compared to the previous year while onion output could be almost 17 per cent more than last year, the first advance estimate of horticulture production released today said. The government also said that total horticulture production is estimated to be at 333.3 million tonnes, a...

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These superwomen from Himachal Pradesh show why empowered women make for an empowered country -Raksha Kumar

-The Hindu Bhuira's women are coping with the higher workload by creating vastly more flexible family and community structures. And they are simultaneously pushing towards modernity much faster than their neighbours. Everyone in the village sneaks a glance when Upasana Kumari drives her White Maruti 800 to work. “Driving a car is intoxicating,” says Kumari. A winding, muddy, single lane road that starts from the edge of the hillock where Kumari’s house...

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Major change in crop weather advice -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

-Business Standard Advisory will also have information on the type of crop needing to be sown, depending on irrigation India Meteorological Department (IMD) plans to change its weather advisory service for farmers, linking it to a dynamic crop calendar of each district, based on the onset and progress of the monsoon. The advisory will also have information on the type of crop needing to be sown, depending on irrigation and rain in that...

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Rebooting India’s agricultural policy -Himanshu

-Livemint.com The efforts of the government in revamping the crop insurance and land titling schemes are long-term solutions which will take time to bear results The agricultural sector is facing its worst moment in the last three decades. The last time India saw such distress caused by back-to-back deficient rains was during the drought of 1986-87 and 1987-88. The severity of the situation is evident from the stories of migration and...

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Flower fascination: India set to be Floriculture trade leader -Vishwa Mohan

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India's share in global Floriculture trade may not be significant but the country has, of late, shown enough potential to eventually turn itself as a favourite destination of flower importers in near future. Surprisingly, the small land-holding pattern, considered a handicap for the country's agricultural production, comes as an advantage in Floriculture due to its 'low volume high value' character. Since the sector has huge export...

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