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Agriculture: After sugarcane price hike, PM Modi says committed to farmers’ welfare

February 22, 2024 revoi editor

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Amid the Punjab farmers’ ongoing agitation on Haryana borders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday his government, which has just increased the minimum price that sugar mills have to pay to sugarcane growers, is committed to the welfare of all farmers in the country. After a Cabinet meeting, chaired […]

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Agriculture: India’s wheat production in 2024 to be “good,” says Munda

January 19, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With the completion of sowing of wheat, the main rabi (winter) crop, its production this year is expected to be “good,” Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda said on Friday. The sowing, which began in October 2023, was completed in various states, including the three top producers—Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and […]

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Poverty: ‘5 billion people are now poorer; the wealth of the 5 richest has doubled since 2020’

January 15, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic may have been a blessing in disguise for some and an existential crisis for many. For, the fortunes of the world’s five richest men have more than doubled since 2020, and nearly five billion people have already turned poorer in this “decade of division,” according to the […]

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2024: India to remain the world’s fastest-growing economy, says Assocham

December 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid a gloomy 2024 creeping into many recessionary economies worldwide three days from now, India’s leading business and industry body has predicted that the South Asian nation, currently the fifth-largest economy in the world, is likely to remain the fastest-growing as well in the new year beginning on Monday next. […]

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Hydroponics: Scientists develop “electronic soil” to enhance barley crop growth by 50%

December 26, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Can hydroponics, the soil-less cultivation method, solve the planet’s increasing need for farm products? For, Swedish scientists have developed what they call “electronic soil” (eSoil) that enhances crop growth by 50 percent in about two weeks, the media reported on Tuesday. Hydroponics uses a root system that is stimulated electrically […]

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Agriculture: Despite restrictions, exports may reach $53 billion in FY24

December 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India’s exports from the agricultural sector are likely to reach USD 53 billion in FY24, the same as in the previous fiscal, 2022-23, despite restrictions imposed on shipments of certain key commodities like rice, wheat, sugar, and onions, among others. “We expect that we would reach that level despite a […]

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Additional spends: Parliament okays Rs. 58k crores, mainly for rural and farm sectors

December 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: During the ongoing Winter Session, Parliament on Tuesday approved a net additional spending of Rs 58,378 crore in the current fiscal ending March 2024, with a large chunk allocated to MGNREGA and fertilizer subsidies. The gross additional spending would now be more than Rs 1.29 lakh crore, out of which […]

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Onions: Ahead of LS polls, India bans the bulb’s export until March 2024

December 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The humble onion, whose higher prices have affected election results in the past, is back in the headlines. Some months ago, the onion prices had sky-rocketed multiple times and the government had to arrange for their marketing through its channels in different places to cool down the prices. Now, ahead […]

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Growth: Nirmala junks Chidambaram’s claims of jobless growth as “whimsical calculations”

December 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Tearing into the Opposition’s claims of India witnessing a ‘jobless growth,’ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday dubbed these claims as a result of “whimsical calculations” and said careful implementation of various welfare schemes by the Modi government has ensured that benefits reach the people. Slamming Congress for its claims […]

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Economy: RBI hikes FY24 GDP estimate from 6.5% to 7%

December 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After several leading global rating agencies’ positive outlook in recent weeks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also raised the South Asian country’s GDP estimates from 6.5 percent earlier to 7 percent in the financial year 2023-24 on buoyant domestic demand and higher capacity utilization in the manufacturing sector. After […]

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