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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
| RISING BHARAT | News Count (101791) | |
23931. बड़ी सफलता- एक साल में इस कृषि प्रोडक्ट का एक्सपोर्ट हुआ डबल, इन देशों ने की जमकर खरीदारी
- पशुधन उत्पादों का निर्यात अप्रैल-जून (2021-22) के दौरान अप्रैल-जून, (2020-21) की तुलना में 106 फीसदी बढ़ा है, जो इस अवधि के दौरान 3668 करोड़ रुपये से बढ़कर 7543 करोड़ रुपये हो गया है.
- एपीडा के जरिए निर्यात होने वाले उत्पादों का निर्यात, वित्त वर्ष 2020-21 के दौरान 23.8 फीसदी की बढ़ोतरी के साथ 19.97 अरब डॉलर पर पहुंच गया है. जो वित्त वर्ष 2019-20 के दौरान 16.13 अरब डॉलर था.
- यहां तक कि कोविड-19 महामारी के दौरान भी कृषि उत्पादों का निर्यात निर्बाध रूप से हो रहा है. भारत ने वित्त वर्ष 2020-2021 के दौरान लगभग 41 अरब डॉलर मूल्य के कृषि और प्रसंस्कृत खाद्य उत्पादों का निर्यात किया है. जिसमें 17.4 फीसदी की बढ़ोतरी दर्ज की गई है
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23932. Farmer Gives Up 50-Acre Land To Protect ‘Deer’ Friends, Increases Population To 1800!
- R Gurusamy, a farmer from Tamil Nadu, gave up most of his ancestral land to care for a few wandering deer in the vicinity. Today, even amid water and food shortage in the nearby forest, his land is a safe haven for over 1,800 deer
- K Ravindran, an environmentalist and president of the Nature Society of Tirupur, an NGO, says, “I have been following Gurusamy’s work since 2010, and his work is commendable in protecting and increasing the deer population. However, deer is a herbivorous species, and there are no carnivores to keep a tab on the grazing population in the surroundings. Moreover, with banana, tapioca and other dense tree plantations, one can mistake Gurusamy’s farm for a mini forest.”
- “I saw about 110 deer during my first visit over a decade ago, and today there are hundreds thriving in the area. The district collector and forest department officials frequently visit the farm to ensure the protection of the wildlife.
23933. How World Vision India is solving irrigation woes of farmers in Nagpur
- World Vision India (WVI) is conducting a livelihood development and water management project in Nagpur, Maharashtra, changing the lives of almost 805 farmers in the district.
- The organisation — which introduced a livelihood development and water management project in Nagpur — provides marginal farmers in villages with the necessary assistance to switch to solar irrigation pumps to meet their irrigational demand through renewable energy applications.
- WVI has also implemented training programmes to build capacities of 59 marginal and small farmers in the project area. These programmes aim to enhance farmers’ understanding of the importance of conservation agriculture and crop diversification.
23934. Wadhwani Foundation partners with Frontier Markets to empower 10,000 women in rural India
- Wadhwani Foundation has funded Jaipur-based Frontier Markets’ initiative Saral Jeevan Sahelis, which aims to recruit women from rural India and provide them with skill training and opportunity to earn a stable livelihood.
- The partnership aims to empower the startup’s saleswomen from rural India to earn a monthly salary of Rs 7,000 to Rs 10,000.
- Sanjay Shah, Chief Operating Officer of Wadhwani Foundation in India and Southeast Asia, said that Frontier Markets is changing the way villages buy products and services, and how businesses are conducted across the hinterland through an army of rural women salesforce called ‘Sahelis.
23935. No more bad hair days: How this entrepreneur couple’s D2C venture is helping Indians embrace their curls
- Ahalya Ram and Mithun Chakkaravarthy quit stable jobs in the US to launch Curl Up, a haircare brand for curly and textured hair. The D2C brand has received a lot of love on social media, and aims to help people across India embrace their curls.
- The idea behind offering a basic set of products was to keep it simple as the consumers are already overwhelmed and unaware due to the presence of many products in the market. Now working with a team of 20 people, the haircare startup has a total of six different products priced between Rs 595 and Rs 750.
- The duo spent time on research, attended many conferences, and spoke to formulators and professionals in the cosmetic industry before flying to India. They then started the ground work from Bengaluru, developed an in-house formulation for Indian hair, and officially launched Curl Up in 2019.
23936. IIT Madras incubated startup has developed a head-mounted wearable device to operate computers, smart devices.
- Chennai-based Dextroware Devices has developed a head-mounted wearable device called ‘Mouseware’ that enables hands-free operation of computers and smartphones.
- The project got recognised through various tech fests like IEEE SS’12, IIT-M Shaastra, and Google - Build for Digital India, where it won accolades. “This validation motivated me to scale it up,”
- out of the 40,000 people who lose their upper limbs (hands), 85 percent live without any assistive devices due to the prohibitively high costs of such arm prosthetics.
23937. Union Minister Piyush Goyal to inaugurate 40th edition of IITF on 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'
- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will inaugurate the India International Trade Fair (IITF) 2021 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday.
- The 40th edition of IITF, a magnum of the India Trade Promotion Organization represents India in totality as an ideal destination for numerous business and investment opportunities.
- The fair is being organized including at the New Exhibition Complex at Pragati Maidan. Being an integral component of the ongoing iconic International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre project, the Complex comprises four New Modern Exhibition Halls which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the 13th of last month.
23938. More than 120 crore vaccine doses provided to States, UTs for free, says Centre
- over 120 crores eight lakh vaccine doses have been provided to States and UTs so far through the Centre's free of cost channel and through the direct state procurement category.
- Health Ministry said, more than 16 crores 74 lakh balance and unutilized COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States and UTs to be administered.
- the Centre has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost. In the new phase of the universalization of the COVID19 vaccination drive, the Union Government will procure and supply free of cost 75 per cent of the vaccines being produced by the vaccine manufacturers in the country to States and UTs.
23939. King Chilli ‘Raja Mircha’ from Nagaland exported to London for the first time
- In a major boost to exports of Geographical Indications (GI) products from the north-eastern region, a consignment of ‘Raja Mircha’ also referred as king chilli from Nagaland was today exported to London via Guwahati by air for the first time.
- The consignment of King Chilli also considered as world’s hottest based on the Scoville Heat Units (SHUs). The consignment was sourced from Tening, part of Peren district, Nagaland and was packed at APEDA assisted packhouse at Guwahati.
- The chilli from Nagaland is also referred as Bhoot Jolokia and Ghost pepper. It got GI certification in 2008. APEDA in collaboration with the Nagaland State Agricultural Marketing Board (NSAMB), coordinated the first export consignment of fresh King Chilli.
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23940. कृषि व्यवसाय को मिला बड़ा प्रोत्साहन, उत्तराखंड से सब्जियों की पहली खेप संयुक्त अरब अमीरात निर्यात की गई
- 2019-20 में 10,114 करोड़ रुपये के बराबर के निर्यात की तुलना में 2020-21 में भारत ने 11,019 करोड़ रुपये के बराबर के फलों एवं सब्जियों का निर्यात किया
- उत्तराखंड से कृषि उत्पादों के निर्यात को मिले एक बड़े प्रोत्साहन में हरिद्वार के किसानों से प्राप्त करी पत्ता, भिंडी, नाशपाती और करेला सहित सब्जियों की पहली खेप आज संयुक्त अरब अमीरात के दुबईको निर्यात की गईं।
- सब्जियों का निर्यात उत्तराखंड में उगाए गए बाजरा की एक खेप के मई, 2021 में डेनमार्क को निर्यात किए जाने के बाद हुआ है।
- उत्तराखंड कृषि उत्पाद विपणन बोर्ड (यूकेएपीएमबी)तथा एक निर्यातक जस्ट ऑर्गेनिक, के सहयोग से एपीडा ने निर्यात के लिए उत्तराखंड के किसानों से रागी, और झिंगोरा प्राप्त एवं प्रसंस्कृत किया, जो यूरोपीय संघ के जैविक प्रमाणन मानकों को पूरा करता है।
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