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With kite flying and pujas, India welcomes the harvest season
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe festivals of Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Bhogali Bihu, Uttarayan, and Paush Parva significantly mark the harvesting season of crops as the winter season ends and ushers in the spring
Delhi in November was more polluted than the past four years in spite of firecracker ban
• 5 years agoThis year farmers also started burning crop residue early due to early harvesting this year and hence the farm fires raged for a longer time.
Amid farmer crisis in Tamil Nadu, agriculture ministry predicts record harvest across India
Indiaspend • 8 years agoIn the midst of Tamil Nadu's agrarian turmoil in a state that produced 5.6 percent of India’s rice in 2014-15, the agriculture ministry has predicted a record national harvest.
Vishu: The traditions, importance and history associated with Kerala's New Year festival
Fp Staff • 8 years agoMalayalis believe that an auspicious object is the first thing they should see on Vishu, so that the rest of the year is prosperous.
'Nano Energy' may soon help us harvest energy from human motion to charge electronic devices
Fp Archives • 9 years agoYou may soon be able to charge cell phones and power Bluetooth headsets with the swipe of a finger as scientists have developed a device that can harvest energy from human motion.
India to receive normal rains, not surplus, as La Nina chances fade
• 9 years agoEarlier this month, the IMD had forecast monsoon rains at 106 percent or above normal
India’s major agricultural produce losses estimated at Rs 92,000 crore
Indiaspend • 9 years agoHarvest and post-harvest loss of India’s major agricultural produce is estimated at Rs 92,651 crore ($13 billion), according to data published by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries on 9 August, 2016.
Truant monsoon is not raining good news just yet
Fp Staff • 12 years agoWhile early monsoons have improved prospects for bountiful harvests, the intense rainfall of the last few days is expected to subside and move to the east in the next two-three days.
Monsoon covers entire India a month ahead of schedule
Fp Archives • 12 years agoThe rains usually cover all of India by mid-July, but this year it happened on June 16, said a senior official at the India Meteorological Department, who did not want to be named.
In spite of delayed rains, harvesting of kharif crop on schedule: govt
Fp Archives • 11 years agoNormally harvesting of kharif crops begin from end of September till November.