Agri StartUps are fast emerging as a lucrative avenue of livelihood by intelligently blending traditional organic farming practices with cutting-edge scientific technologies, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said.
With the world realizing that climate change is real and its impact being felt worldwide, experts on the subject have called for urgent steps to counter its effect on life and livelihood.
The Centre's Department of Fisheries has accorded approvals to proposals worth Rs 4969.62 crore with a Central share of Rs 1823.58 crore during the last four financial years (FY2020-21 to FY2023-24) and the current fiscal year (FY25) to develop small fishing communities, traditional fishers and provide livelihood support to them.
They were participating in a two-day 'Manthan Shivir' organised by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to undertake progress-review of various schemes for tribals and deliberate on ''Vision 2047'' and the 100-day action plan of the Ministry in New Delhi.
Mukesh Kumar Meshram, Principal Secretary, Tourism and Culture, Deepa Ranjan, Mission Director, UPSRLM, Eesha Priya, Special Secretary, Tourism, and other distinguished guests were present at the MoU signing ceremony.
Besides Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, other Union ministers and Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat too would be joining the global event being held in India after 48 years.
To give readers an idea, more than 39 lakh people were associated in fisheries activities in Uttar Pradesh alone in 2019-2020.
The projects we work on in VietNam and most other parts of ASEAN tend to be around very similar themes, largely because I think most of us are trying to deal with the same issues.
Traditional skills of diverse communities provide a tremendous reservoir of creativity which can be adapted to present times to add…
