THE Department of Education (DepEd) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) have issued new guidelines to strengthen the government’s School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) through a joint administrative order. The order, signed by Education Secretary So... [1528 chars]
Continue ReadingThe government has taken a series of measures to modernise agriculture through expanded support for farmers, climate-resilient farming and greater use of technology, aiming to strengthen food security. A key feature of the plan is the nationwide rollout of the Farmer Card program
Continue ReadingA new study has found that as farming spread across ancient Europe, plant diversity rose rather than fell. Researchers reading pollen buried in Swiss lake mud tracked the pattern over roughly 7,000 years, and found the land grew richer in species as agriculture expanded. The reve
Continue ReadingDespite this guarded response from the cultivators to Haryana’s DSR push, the state agriculture department has set the target of bringing 5-lakh acres under the DSR this year. In 2025 against the target of 4 lakh acre, 31,605 farmers cultivated paddy... [4316 chars]
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