Himachal extends weather based crop insurance cover to tomato, spring potato
byShimla: A Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) has been launched on pilot basis in Solan and Bilaspur district for tomato crop and for…
Shimla: A Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) has been launched on pilot basis in Solan and Bilaspur district for tomato crop and for…
Shimla: Extending the market intervention scheme (MIS) for citrus fruits, the Himachal cabinet today approved procurement rates for the fruit, redrew the norms for…
Shimla: To overcome the constraints for marketing apples, mainstay of the agri-economy in Shimla hills, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today laid a foundation…
Space application centre to be set up Shimla: Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today announced setting up space application centre for using Geo-Informatics in…
Shimla: Assessing a loss of Rs 700 crores to the fruit grower’s community, Communist Party of India (Marxists) has taken the government to task…
Shimla: Its harvest time and farmers at a village near Shimla are making the best of the sunny autumn days by spreading out a…
Shimla: For promoting innovative practices in agriculture, the Himachal Pradesh government was awarded the State Agriculture Leadership Award – 2010. Punjab Governor Shiv Raj…
Shimla: Having revised the central governments Venture Capital Fund (VCFS) scheme for dairy, other than the name even the norms have been changed for…
A team of Indian scientists has grown for the first time, a genetically modified spud called ‘protato’ that makes up to 60 per cent…
Shimla: For the first quarter, banks in Shimla district disbursed loans worth Rs 478 crore, which included Rs 258 crore in the priority sector…