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Volume : 1, Article : 1
Agricultural News Updates August 2020
Author : Team FSR

Centre launches pilot project to reduce emissions from agriculture The government of India on July 28, 2020, launched the Green-Ag Project funded by the Global Environment Facility to reduce emissions from agriculture and ensure sustainabl...

Volume : 1, Article : 2
Microwave assisted freezing: The freezing technology of future
Author : Ammu V K, Amit Kumar Juneja, Ditty Maria Dominic, Dharin kumar and Bharat kumar Jayswal

ABSTRACT Microwave assisted freezing promises to be the technology of the future in the field of food freezing and its applications.  It is an innovative freezing technique in which microwaves were applied to the freezing process. The...

Volume : 1, Article : 3
Carbon-sequestration in Agro-forestry systems: An old practice emerging as antidote of modern hazard
Author : Chandni Pradhan,Tusharkanta Behera, Bharti Yadav and Astha Pandey

ABSTRACT With the rising concern for global warming due to emission of green house gases, the need for mitigation of the hazard has gained momentum. Amid such time Carbon-sequestration has emerged as a promising solution. Among various sys...

Volume : 1, Article : 4
Turmeric (Haldi) - A strapping strategy for enhancing the immune system to reduce the effect of SARS-CoV-2
Author : Jyoti Prakash Sahoo, Upasana Mohapatra, Ambika Prasad Mishra and Kailash Chandra Samal

ABSTRACT From the evolution of the human race, turmeric has been used in conventional medicinal drug development. For turmeric, India is in lead for producing, marketing and exporting. Curcumin, the primary curcumoid principle in turmeric,...

Volume : 1, Article : 5
Decision support systems: Models for strategic and planned plant disease management
Author : G.S. Jasudasu, K. Basavaraj, D.Ladhalaxmi and V. Prakasam

ABSTRACT Decision-support systems (DSSs) are interactive computer-based systems that help decision-makers in understanding and solving unstructured problems under complex, uncertain conditions. Experimental use of DSSs has resulted in impr...

Volume : 1, Article : 6
Transgenes free gene silencing through exogenous application of RNA
Author : Tondonba S. Puyam, Philanim W. S, Hage Sumpi, Bharti Lap and Umakanta Ngangkham

ABSTRACT RNA interference/RNAi is a promising natural mechanism for crop protection that permits knockdown of a gene (which may be a foreign gene, transposonsor a virus) by limiting its expression. Conventionally, RNAi is based on the use ...

Volume : 1, Article : 7
Agro-Eco-Tourism: A New Dimension of Green Economy
Author : R Mohan Kumar, Yamanura and N Nagesha

ABSTRACT India has a flourishing tourism industry and becoming an important global tourism destination. The tourism industry not only contributing Rupees 106.9 billion US dollars to Indian GDP but also creating 42 million jobs which are ex...

Volume : 1, Article : 8
Impact of Elevated CO2 and Temperature on Plant Carbon Metabolism
Author : Heena Rani and Rahul Sen

ABSTRACT In the past 400,000 years, the concentration of CO2 ranged between 200 ppm to 280 ppm but since the mid-19th century, its concentration has been increasing and reached 410 ppm in June 2018. Rising concentrations of CO2, along...

Volume : 1, Article : 9
Can Haryana go the Sikkim way? Problems and prospects of transition to organic farming
Author : Gunjan Bhandari and Babita Kathayat

ABSTRACT Haryana has emerged as one of the pioneers of green revolution by undertaking intensive cultivation of rice and wheat, chartered the path of food self-sufficiency for India. Driven by the higher yields, farmers in the state resort...

Volume : 1, Article : 10
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the agriculture sector and food security
Author : Pavan Kumar Malav, Lal Chand Malav, Gopal Tiwari, Abhishek Jangir

ABSTRACT COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease. As the pandemic left deep wounds all over the globe, India was able to predict the extent of the socio-economic damage that the pandemic could soon inflict. Due to the contagion of COVID-...