Financial assistance up to 40% available for establishing farm machinery custom hiring centres
SMAM scheme aims to promote mechanization in areas with low farm power availability Under its Sub Mission on Agricultural…
HAU becomes India’s first agri-varsity to develop e-tractor
The vehicle uses 16.2-kilowatt lithium-ion battery The College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology (COAE&T) of the Chaudhary Charan Singh…
IIT Mandi scientists develop app to detect disease in potato crop using photos
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection…
Micro irrigation: A way forward to conserve water
Agriculture is the biggest water consumer. It uses around 70 percent of all freshwater withdrawals worldwide. With a growing world…