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  RASHTRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJANA (RKVY) By: Anshika Rani Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana or (RKVY) aka National Agriculture Development Programme was launched as a part of 11 th five-year plan on august 2007 by   National Development Council (NDC). The aim of this scheme was to provide overall development of agriculture and its allied sector and obtain gross annual growth of 4% through development of agriculture and its allied sector. Objectives of RKVY To make agriculture one of the main source of economic activity. To prompt the state that increase its expenditure in agriculture and allied sector with funding. To reduce yield gaps of important crops To maximize return to farmers   To address agriculture and its allied sector in integrated manner To allow states to choose their own activities to develop agriculture and allied sectors based on the needs, priorities, and agriculture plan that suits their district and states. Features : It is state plan scheme, aka...

  Soil Health Card Scheme By- Anshika Rani Soil health scheme or SHC with the tagline of ‘Swasth Dharaa Khet Hara’ (healthy earth, green farm) was launched by PM Narendra Modi on 19 February 2015 (the international year of soil) from Suratgarh, Sriganganagar, Rajasthan, and is promoted by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare. A soil health card is a detailed printed report which gives the farmer’s a soil nutrient report of his/her holding and advices them the amount of fertilizers that should be used to maintain the soil and get optimal yield. This report is predicated on 12 parameters, i.e., N,P,K(macro nutrient); S(secondary nutrient); Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, Bo (micro nutrient) & pH, Electrical Conductivity, Organic Carbon (physical parameters). The samples required for testing are generally taken twice a year after harvesting of the rabi & kharif crops in a grid of 2.5 Ha in case of irrigated...

  Byproducts from the beer and agricultural industry have been shown to reduce numbers of root-knot nematodes and increase yields of lettuce crops.   By Frontiers on May 31, 2021   The use of many chemical fumigants in agriculture have been demonstrated to be harmful to human health and the environment and therefore banned from use. Now, in an effort to reduce waste from the agricultural industry and reduce the amounts of harmful chemicals used, researchers have investigated using organic byproducts from beer production and farming as a potential method to disinfest soils, preserve healthy soil microorganisms and increase crop yields. In this study published to Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems , researchers from the Neiker Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development in Spain investigated using agricultural by-products rapeseed cake and beer bagasse (spent beer grains), along with fresh cow manure as two organic biodisinfestation t...

                                            Written By - Astha Singh While startups have disrupted a number of industries around the world, India is often seen as the true test of new and revolutionary offerings. Health-tech, Fintech, Edu-tech, eCommerce have made huge inroads in India over the last few years, and now, startups are also beginning to overhaul India's traditional mainstay - the agriculture sector. The frontrunner in this domain is a startup that traces its origins to Bihar - DeHaat . Now Gurgaon-headquartered, DeHaat is one of the fastest-growing startups in India's Agri-Tech sector and among its highest-valued, having raised almost $42 million in little over a year. Now 9 years old, it aims to offer farmers a rang...