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Jun 14
IIRF Ranking 2026:
#1. ICAR-IARI retains top spot among India's government agriculture and horticulture universities
#2. Punjab Agricultural University
#3. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
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Jun 8
Some plants can poison you. So how did humans figure out what is safe to eat?
Over centuries, humans have learnt which plants are safe to eat and which are not, often by combining ancient knowledge with modern science.
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India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.
Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.
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Jun 6
Protecting India’s seed sovereignty

Over 10,500 plant varieties registered under PPV&FRA, including over 5,250 farmers’ varieties, 3,118 private-sector breeder varieties and 2,164 public-sector varieties
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May 29
India’s Summer Crop Sowing Rises to 86.02 Lakh Hectares; Pulses, Maize and Groundnut Lead Growth
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May 26
INDIA: 33.4 Million hectare of wheat crop remains resilient despite weather-related challenges (heat stress), due to higher acreage, timely sowing, and improved varietal adoption.
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May 23
How climate-resilient agriculture, sustainable farming are emerging as key investment focus within India’s
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May 23
In India, agriculture, which still supports close to half the country’s workforce, cannot be carried into that vision on a climate-stressed, water-short, soil-depleted production base.
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May 22
Wageningen University & Research Launches Field Trials for Gene-Edited Potatoes to Cope with Phytophthora.
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Rishi Tyagi retweeted
Seeds of Transformation- The Raj S. Paroda Story
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May 19
Indian scientists create world’s first AI-designed gene editor for crops
While a US company had earlier developed a similar AI-designed system for human cells, this is the first successful demonstration in plants
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May 17
Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough! Nature salutes you
The science communicator has raised awareness of the natural world and its myriad interconnections on which humans depend
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May 13
Did Bt cotton fail India, or did India fail Bt cotton?
For 20 years, the pink bollworm has been quietly evolving past India's Bt cotton, while the country's laboratories waited for a regulatory signature that never came.
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May 13
CODE PARODA book by Mr Arun Tiwari - one of the authors who also wrote Best Seller
“Wings on Fire” - on Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
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