Tag «Pulses»

The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan organise ‘Pulse 2016’ – Self Sufficiency in Pulses: Challenges and Way Forward

19th November 2016, Santiniketan: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations reaffirmed in their recent publication that pulses can help to improve health, nutrition, biodiversity, food security and climate change adaptation. Diet is an important contributor to health, and to disease. However, a large part of the population faces nutritional problems, from undernutrition …

Agriculture Sector Grows at 1.9% in 2012-13

As per the Provisional Estimates released by CSO on 31st May, 2013 this sector is estimated to grow at 1.9% in 2012-13 at 2004-05 prices and the contribution of agriculture to the GDP is likely to decline to 13.7 % in 2012-13. The decline in growth rate and contribution of agriculture to GDP is on …