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Highlights:

 

ü  NABARD to come up with Farmer Distress Index (FDI)

ü  India boosts fertiliser imports from Canada and Israel as Russian supply interrupted

ü  Cabinet approves Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) rates for Phosphatic and Potassic (P&K) fertilizers for Kharif Season

ü  ICAR Launches 2 Special Programmes to Scale up Biofortified Crops through KVKs

ü  A million tonnes of wheat export from India approved by Egypt

ü  Mumbai declared as ‘2021 Tree City of the World’

ü  NABARD launches JIVA to promote natural farming

ü  Kerala to introduce carbon-neutral farming methods

ü  Govt approves 477 pesticides for being sprayed by drones

ü  Himachal records birth of 1st female calf using sexed semen technique

ü  NITI Aayog and FAO Release Book "Indian Agriculture 2030"

ü  Fertiliser subsidy hike to cost exchequer Rs 60,000 crore

ü  ‘Kisan Bhagidari, Prathmikta Hamari’ organized as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav

ü  Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh to get India`s first geological park

ü  Palli in J&K becomes India’s first ‘carbon neutral panchayat’

ü  PM Modi launches Asia`s biggest Bio-CNG plant in Indore

ü  Launch of Agri Infinity programme by YES BANK

ü  ‘One Health’ pilot project launched by Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in Uttarakhand

ü  Operation Greens Scheme is being put into action

ü  Cabinet authorises MSP for raw jute in 2022-23

ü  Environment Minister unveils ‘Prakriti` green waste management programmes

ü  Dileep Sanghani elected as IFFCO chairman

ü  Amazon launches its first mango collection center in Maharashtra

 

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1. Agri Current Affairs_May 2022_compressed.pdf