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Highlights:

ü  India receives US$ 10.88 billion FDI in the food processing sector from April 2000 till November 2021

ü  Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurugram declared as India’s first OECM site

ü  eAgronom raises $7.4M to tackle emissions with farming-based carbon credits

ü  India hopes to replace diesel with green energy in its farms by 2024

ü  PM Modi inaugurates Asia’s biggest bio-CNG plant in Indore

ü  PM Modi launches 100 agricultural Kisan drones across the country

ü  Cabinet approves Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Copra for 2022 season

ü  Effective duty on crude palm oil slashed to 5.5% to cool edible oil prices

ü  Government Releases Second Advance Estimates of Production of Major Crops for 2021-22

ü  India emerges as largest exporters of cucumber and gherkins in the world

ü  Centre to reach out to 1 crore farmers under Fasal Bima policy

ü  CROPSR: A new tool to accelerate genetic research in crops

ü  PMKSY scheme extended till FY’26 with Rs 4,600 crore outlay

ü  Pulses importers land in trouble after government’s move on moong beans

ü  Jammu & Kashmir signs MoU with New Zealand company to transform sheep farming sector

ü  Centre proposes law to control distribution, price, quality of fertilizers

ü  Agriculture minister launches mobile agri knowledge centre ‘Shashwat Bharat Krushi Rath’

ü  ICAR-NRC for Banana licenses and transfers Farmers’ friendly Macropropagation Technology to Gujarat-based Jarvi Nursery

ü  Narendra Singh Tomar launched centre’s doorstep crop insurance scheme ‘Meri Policy, Mera Hath’

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