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Nurpur: While the government machinery has for quite some time been tutoring the farming community, especially those with small land holdings, to diversify into cash crops to get better returns, some of those who took the advice seriously are today finding themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Recently, over 100 silk cocoon producers-cum-farmers from Nurpur, [...]

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Addressing media persons after assuming charge as the new vice-chancellor of Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Dr. K.R. Dhiman said he would focus on improving horticulture produce, provide qualitative education facility to state youth and bridge the gap between university and the farming community.
Dhiman said apple was the mainstay of the agrarian [...]

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Shimla: This was the last thing apple growers in Himachal Pradesh were expecting after good snowfall this season. Heavy rain and hailstorms in the past few days have caused bout 30 to 40 per cent damage to apple orchards in areas between 3000 to 6000 feet in height. As of now, the amount of damage [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today said that efforts would be made to explore possibilities of creating required infrastructure to produce byproducts of fruits within the state to provide growers remunerative prices.
He said efforts would also be made to change old root-stocks of apple by importing high-yielding quality root stock. He said [...]

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The union government has in principle agreed to include apple under the crop insurance scheme. This was revealed by Himachal Pradesh horticulture minister Narinder Bragta during an orchardists’ meet in Shamsi.
The minister said that teams from the centre are already visiting the state to work out modalities. The risks to be involved under the insurance [...]

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Shimla: The first-of-its-kind Primate Park for monkeys in Himachal Pradesh was inaugurated by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal at Tara Devi near Shimla today. Earlier, the government had decided to open two Primate Parks in the state on experimental basis - one in Shimla and the other in Nadaun to keep 2,500 monkeys annually at [...]

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Karsog: Setting a new example of running a farm cooperative, vegetable growers in the Karsog valley of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh are about to rewrite the rules of supply chain mechanism by doing away with all middlemen. Or, in fact, it’s the branding power they now want to cash on.
Known for growing exotic vegetables [...]

By: Ajai Srivastava
Shimla: Soon after being administered oath by State Governor, V S Kokje, the new Cabinet didn’t waste much time and got to work immediately.
In some of the important decisions taken by the Cabinet’s first meeting, today, the support price for citrus fruits (kinnu and galgal) were raised by 50 per cent per kg.
The [...]

HimVaniKarnal: Second in a series, a five days training programme on scientific dairy farming organised for 38 members of three blocks of Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh concluded here at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Dairy Training Centre (DTC) of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI).
Second in a series, a five days training programme [...]

हिमाचल प्रदेश के वन विभाग द्वारा समुद्र तल से लगभग १२ हजार फीट की ऊंचाई पर पांगी घाटी में  हर्बल नर्सरी विकसित कर जनजातीय क्षेत्रों में रहने वाले लोगों की आय के नये द्वार खोले हैं।  लगभग पांच वर्ष की अल्प अवधि में नर्सरी उन लोगों के लिए, जो मिलो पहाड़ी सफर तय कर घने [...]