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Silk is a prominent part of our country’s sartorial identity. Silk garments are a key part of Indian fashion. Particularly saris serve as a cultural card for the country’s weaving communities. Even those who have never visited places like Mysore and Kanchipuram, Varanasi or Bhagalpur, Chanderi, Tirubhuvanam and Varanasi are well-known for their silks. ReshaMandi, a Karnataka-based […]

ICAR creates feed supplements that reduce emissions and increase milk production. Out of the 90 million tonnes of livestock methane, India’s belching cattle, buffaloes, and sheep emit 9.25 to 14.2 million tonnes (mt/year) of methane. There is reason to be concerned about methane’s potential for global warming – 25x that of CO2 over 100 years, making

 Vertical farming is gaining popularity for a while. The United Nations estimates that the world’s population will dramatically increase from 7.8 billion people to 9.7 billion by 2020-2050. This population explosion may be due to a rising number of urban dwellings – nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will likely live in urban areas. In recent years, incomes

Origins of agriculture The origins of agriculture are the active production of useful plants and animals in ecosystems. These have been created by humans. Although agriculture has been often viewed narrowly as a collection of specific activities and organisms (e.g., wet-rice production in Asia, European wheat farming, cattle ranching in the Americas), a holistic view