Rs. 318 crore sanctioned under RIDF

The Federal Government has secured $1 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to provide agriculture infrastructures in Staple Crop Processing Zones (SCPZ) across the country, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, ...

Saudi crown prince to visit India Feb 26 UAE to help set up strategic petroleum reserve in India Agriculture growth single major factor in food security... PM to attend BIMSTEC summit on economic cooperation Cairo, March 4 (IANS) The ...

Afghanistan's first national agriculture university, a major capacity-building project backed by India, will be inaugurated here today. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived here for a day-long visit and along with Afghan President Hamid Karzai ...

Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar said on Friday there was no Modi wave in the country but argued that the new government at the Centre should be stable in the larger interest of the economy and the country. He observed that development would be a major plank in the run up to the coming parliamentary elections. Pawar said he did not see an anti-Congress wave across the country and added that the results of the recent assembly elections in four ...

Harsh Kumar Bhanwala has taken charge as Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard). Bhanwala succeeds Prakash Bakshi, who retired in September, the apex agriculture development bank in a statement. Bhanwala was earlier ...

The United Nations and its Food and Agriculture Organisation have appealed to governments to boost support to the world's small-scale family farmers in order to win the fight against hunger. Governments can empower family farmers, especially ...

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has reduced refinance rate for banks and other lending agencies by 0.20 per cent to promote rural credit and rural infrastructure.

The programme, according to the minister of Agriculture, establishes the main actions that will be developed by 2012, as part of a national irrigation project. Pedro Canga, who was speaking on the occasion of the Cattle Show, held in the city of ...

Spain and Gambia will sign a new agreement on trade and infrastructure to boost economy in the West African nation and the EU member state, according to Antonio Sanchez Benedito, Spanish ambassador at large for the Sahel region. "We will sign the ...