Crop Diversification in India
🌾West Bengal farmers are shifting from wheat cultivation to more lucrative options like bananas, lentils, and maize, especially in border districts like Murshidabad and Nadia.
🌾Reasons Behind the Shift from Wheat Production:
Wheat Blast Disease ,Economic Viability(higher profitability compared to wheat) , Shift to Higher Output Crops (higher per-hectare output and demand from poultry and food processing industries) ,Pulses and oilseed production.
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🌾West Bengal farmers are shifting from wheat cultivation to more lucrative options like bananas, lentils, and maize, especially in border districts like Murshidabad and Nadia.
🌾Reasons Behind the Shift from Wheat Production:
Wheat Blast Disease ,Economic Viability(higher profitability compared to wheat) , Shift to Higher Output Crops (higher per-hectare output and demand from poultry and food processing industries) ,Pulses and oilseed production.
@AgentsofUPSCCAPF
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Why Botswana threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany 🔗
#botswana #elephant #express_explained
#botswana #elephant #express_explained
The Indian Express
Why Botswana threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
Botswana has an elephant problem — there are simply too many of them. That is why, when Germany proposed to enact stricter limits on import of hunted trophies, Botswana’s president clapped back.
Context: IMD warns of more tornadoes in West Bengal after a recent one killed 5 and over 100 injured in Jalpaiguri.
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DTE_-_Down_To_Earth_April_1_15.pdf
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Remembering Mangal Pandey, and the legacy of the revolt he inspired 🔗
#express_explained #mangal_pandey
#express_explained #mangal_pandey
The Indian Express
Remembering Mangal Pandey, and the legacy of the revolt he inspired
The Revolt of 1857 ended the rule of the East India Company over India, which would now be governed by and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State. The British were forced to announce the aim of their rule, and what would be their…
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