AgriTech News : Post-harvest Losses ‘Alarming’

Highlighting alarming data about post-harvest loss in agriculture, K Alagu Sundaram, Deputy Director General (Engineering), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) said the loss was estimated to range between 6 and 18 per cent in the two year period between 2005 and 2007. The exercise of assessing the loss was repeated seven years later during 2012 and 14 when it was found to hover between 5 and 15 per cent.


AgriTech News : Second Green Revolution in Tamil Nadu State Possible

The Minister for Housing and Urban Development, R Vaithilingam was speaking at the inauguration of the International Agricultural Conference held as part if the AGRI INTEX-2015 organised by the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (CODISSIA) at Codissia Trade Fair Complex, at Avinashi Road here, on Saturday.


AgriTech News : Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT) System

The Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT) system is a matrix of cutting edge molecular breeding technologies used by DuPont Pioneer researchers that is helping increase rate of genetic yield gain, reduce yield variability and improve performance predictability in our corn, soybean, sorghum and canola products.