Tag: Indian Council Of Agricultural Research

Kolkata: Warning that wheat blast could be “catastrophic” for South Asia, scientists from Bangladesh, which was ravaged by an outbreak of the disease in 2016, have offered to help their Indian counterparts tackle the deadly fungal foe, reported here for the first time this year. Following the first sightings of wheat blast in India in […]

Cuttack: Director General of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Dr Trilochan Mohapatra has called upon farm scientists to encourage youths to take up farming in large scale. Speaking at ‘Dhaan Diwas’, the foundation day celebration of National Rice Research Institute here today, Mohapatra, who is also the secretary of Department of Agricultural Research and […]

Bengaluru: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will start a Farmers’ Innovation Fund (FIF), said Director General Trilochan Mohapatra at the first-ever Farmers’ Science Congress, a part of the ongoing 107th Indian Science Congres. “We will start in a small way to see how successful it is and then move in a big way. […]