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APEDA to develop Hortinet software to ensure quality vegetable exports

With rising concerns for presence of pesticides in Indian vegetables exported to European and Middle-Eastern countries, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is working on a tool to monitor pesticide residues in vegetables. In this regard, “Hortinet, a software is in the process of development, which is likely to bring a chain of growers, processors and exporters together in order .....

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Agriculture Ministry, Isro to forecast accurate farm production

The union agriculture ministry is gearing up to provide advance and accurate forecast of farm output in the kharif season by setting up a remote sensing centre in New Delhi with the help of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). The centre is likely to be operational in a month's time. "Isro has developed basic procedures, models, and software packages for crop area and production forecasting, .....

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Madurai jasmine to be promoted as global brand

The famous ‘Madurai Malli’ (jasmine flower) will soon be promoted as a global brand jointly by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and International Crops Research Institute of Semi-Arid Tropics. The TNAU and ICRISAT stated this after a joint study revealed the export potential as it has superior fragrance, extra petal thickness and better shelf life. The process for acquiring a patent for this variety is currently on. A meeting was also organised .....

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Pune has potential to be hub for food processing, food scientists’ meet told

Pune is a hub for food processing given its location and character of population, which is majorly an earning population. Also, there are different initiatives being taken up in Pune. These include the Government of Maharashtra's approved Rs 100 crore project for horticulture development, upcoming mega food parks, vegetable clusters set up by the ministry of agriculture, Wine Board, Deccan Sugar Technologists Association, .....