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Highlights:

Ø  Agri ministry launches crop insurance awareness campaign

Ø  “Edible Schools”: a novel initiative to connect children to food crops and farm fields

Ø  `Matsya Setu`: mobile app for aqua farmers launched by GoI

Ø  `Space Rice`: China harvests first batch

Ø  ‘Bhalia Wheat’: GI tagged Gujarat wheat exported to Kenya, Sri Lanka

Ø  ‘National Fish Farmers Day: Celebrated by National Fisheries Development Board

Ø  India to sign MoU with Bangladesh to export 10 lakh bales of cotton annually

Ø  India’s “Grain ATM”: established in Gurugram

Ø  Kisan Saarthi App: a way to connect farmers with KVK scientists launched

Ø  Amul wins trademark suit in Canada

Ø  GoI permitted sanction of Agri Infra Fund loans to APMCs

Ø  MOMA market:  mobile application launched by Manipur government for delivering vegetables at home amid Covid-19

Ø  ‘Ankur’: Madhya Pradesh launches scheme to award people for planting trees

Ø  IFFCO to set up Nano Urea Fertiliser Plant in Argentina, Brazil

Ø  WTO reported India Among Top 10 Agricultural Produce Exporters in World

Ø  Horticulture Cluster Development Programme: launched by Union Minister of Agriculture

Ø  Bamboo Market Page on Govt e-Marketplace (GeM) portal launched

Ø  Managing Director, Amul, R S Sodhi appointed as board member of International Dairy Federation (IDF)

Ø  NAFED launches Fortified Rice Bran Oil to Boost Healthy Living

Ø  Sale of illegal HTBt cotton seeds doubles: Farmers organization in favour of legalizing HTBt

Ø  Pusa Samba 1850: the expected game changer non-basmati variety from IARI, New Delhi

Ø  India’s first-ever yellow watermelon variety, ‘Yellow Gold 48: launched by Bayer

Ø  Cotton MSP: New trouble for India in WTO forum

Ø  France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022

Ø  Nagaland’s King Chilli or ‘Raja Mircha’ exported to London

Ø  Atmanirbhar Krishi APP

Ø  GMO ‘Golden Rice’: Philippines approved for cultivation, first in the world

Ø  Rubber census: launched by Rubber Board, India

Ø  Philippines Approves Bt Eggplant for Direct Use as Food, Feed, or for Processing

Ø  Project BOLD: an initiative to Prevent Desertification and Support Rural Economy

Ø  Agriculture ministry to bring data policy for the farm sector

 

Ø  Dairy Investment Accelerator: set up by GoI

 

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