2022-11-05T13:30:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|Tags: The Hindu|
Background The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), India’s apex regulator of genetically modified plants and food products, has approved the environmental release of Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 (DMH-11), a genetically-engineered variant of mustard. If approved for commercial cultivation it would be the first genetically modified food crop available to Indian farmers. [...]
2022-05-15T21:03:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
2022-05-15T20:44:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
2021-11-26T13:24:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|Tags: The Hindu|
Sri Lanka’s decision to ban imports on chemical fertilizers was not backed by scientific evidence […]
2021-10-05T14:07:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|Tags: The Hindu|
Context:- The first and historic United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021 which was held in September this year, concluded after an intense ‘bottom-up’ process conceived in 2019 by UN Secretary General António Guterres to find solutions and ‘catalyse momentum’ to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks [...]
2021-06-01T08:27:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Context:- The government recently launched the horticulture Cluster Development Programme (CDP) in order to promote the export of horticultural produce, identifying 12 out of a total of 53 clusters for implementation in a pilot phase. […]
2021-03-21T05:21:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) wanted to find out per capita food waste generated after the food reached retail stores, restaurants and canteens and homes. They scoured research studies and data to estimate the amount wasted. […]
2021-03-10T03:29:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
It is no news to anyone that India fares poorly in giving economic freedom to its citizens and business firms. Two key indexes in this regard establish the poor standing of India. […]
2021-02-25T23:45:59+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
It took us substantial amount of time to come with this piece of writing. But it is all rewarding at the end. The fact that students can almost answer any questions related to agriculture (fully/partially) from this article is worth our sweat. What we require from you is patience to [...]
2017-11-01T07:16:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Polity|
Reports of farmers dying from pesticide exposure in Maharashtra’s cotton belt in Yavatmal make it evident that the government’s efforts to regulate toxic chemicals used in agriculture have miserably failed. […]
