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Agriculture

Mobile labs for water, soil testing for Har farmers

Haryana's Fisheries and Animal Husbandry Minister Shyam Singh Rana today said that keeping in view the convenience of fish farmers, the state government has decided to start three mobile water testing laboratories. This laboratory will be in a van and will go to the farmers and test the water and soil quality of their ponds.

Chouhan asks officers to engage with state govts on agricultural issues

Union Minister for Agriculture Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan has asked officials to consistently engage with the state governments on agricultural issues as addressing them at the ground level would require involvement of the state government officials.

Minister holds review meet at Hooghly on crop loss compensation

State agricultural minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay yesterday conducted a review meeting of Hooghly district zilla parishad to assess the total loss of paddy crops and vegetables due to untimely heavy rainfall followed by cyclone Dana and also from the release of water from DVC dams.

Food Systems

For 2.5 million years humans fed themselves by gathering plants and hunting wild animals that lived and bred without their intervention.