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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet continues PMFBY and RWBCIS till 2025-26; creates ₹824.77 crore technology fund

The overall outlay is ₹69,515.71 crore for 2021-22 to 2025-26.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet extends one-time special package on DAP at ₹3,500 per tonne beyond NBS subsidy

The extension from 1 January 2025 till further orders will cost up to about ₹3,850 crore.

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🚄 Infrastructure & Energy 📍 Andhra Pradesh Important

Andhra Pradesh plans ₹80,112 crore Godavari-Banakacherla project to take Polavaram water to Rayalaseema

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu unveiled the three-segment project at the Secretariat in Velagapudi on 30 December 2024.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Rabi sowing crosses 614 lakh hectares; wheat at 319.74 lakh ha, oilseeds trail last year

The Agriculture Ministry released rabi area coverage as on 30 December 2024, showing 614.94 lakh hectares sown.

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🏛️ Governance & Administration 📍 Tripura

Tripura to get FCI regional office at Agartala: Pralhad Joshi gives in-principle approval

Union Food Minister Pralhad Joshi visited the FCI office and godown in Agartala on 28 December 2024 and approved, in principle, an FCI regional office for Tripura.

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🚄 Infrastructure & Energy 📍 Madhya Pradesh Important

MP cabinet approves ₹28,798 crore Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal link projects and Birth and Death Registration Rules, 2024

The Madhya Pradesh cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on 26 December 2024 gave administrative approval of ₹28,798 crore for projects under the Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal river link project and approved the MP Birth and Death Registration Rules, 2024.

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🚄 Infrastructure & Energy 📍 Madhya Pradesh Must know

PM lays foundation stone of Ken-Betwa river linking project at Khajuraho on Vajpayee's 100th birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Ken-Betwa River Linking National Project at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, on 25 December 2024, the 100th birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Odisha Important

Odisha CM Mohan Majhi launches 1,542 new MPACS, taking State's PACS to 4,253

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi launched 1,542 new Multipurpose Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies at Lok Seva Bhavan, Bhubaneswar, on 25 December 2024.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Amit Shah inaugurates 10,000 new M-PACS, dairy and fisheries cooperatives

Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated 10,000 newly established Multipurpose Primary Agricultural Credit Societies, along with dairy and fisheries cooperatives, in New Delhi on 25 December 2024.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Kerala Important

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan opens Milma milk powder factory at Moorkanad, Malappuram

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated Milma's milk powder factory at Moorkanad near Valanchery, Malappuram, on 24 December 2024.

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📋 State Schemes 📍 Tripura Important

Tripura: eight cooperative initiatives launched, including NCOL MoU on organic farming; ₹668 crore projects in Dhalai

Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched cooperative initiatives in Tripura and inaugurated or laid foundation stones for projects worth over ₹668 crore in Dhalai on 22 December 2024.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Gujarat Important

Climate Smart Agro-Textile Demonstration Centre opens in Navsari, Gujarat, under the National Technical Textiles Mission

The Ministry of Textiles and SASMIRA launched a 15,000 sq m demonstration centre for agro-textiles in Navsari, Gujarat, on 21 December 2024 in the presence of Jal Shakti Minister C. R. Patil.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

CCEA fixes copra MSP for 2025 season: ₹11,582 per quintal for milling copra, ₹12,100 for ball copra

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the Minimum Support Price for copra for the 2025 season on 20 December 2024.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Rajasthan Important

Bikaner workshop on strengthening camel milk value chain held as part of International Year of Camelids 2024

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, FAO and ICAR-National Research Centre on Camel held a stakeholder workshop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, on 20 December 2024.

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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 Chhattisgarh Important

Foldscope microscopes help farmers in 20 Chhattisgarh districts detect plant diseases

A DST-supported project run by ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management is training Chhattisgarh farmers to diagnose crop diseases with the low-cost Foldscope, PIB reported on 20 December 2024.

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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 India Must know

Kisan Kavach, India's first anti-pesticide bodysuit for farmers, launched

Union Minister Jitendra Singh unveiled Kisan Kavach, a first-of-its-kind anti-pesticide bodysuit for farmers, on 17 December 2024.

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📋 Central Schemes 📍 India Must know

Credit Guarantee Scheme for e-NWR based Pledge Financing (CGS-NPF) launched

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi launched the Credit Guarantee Scheme for e-NWR based Pledge Financing (CGS-NPF) with a ₹1,000 crore corpus on 16 December 2024.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Chhattisgarh Important

Chhattisgarh signs agreements with NCOL and NDDB to boost forest produce and dairy cooperatives

Two agreements to boost the minor forest produce and dairy sectors in Chhattisgarh were signed in the presence of Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on 16 December 2024.

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💹 Banking & RBI 📍 India Must know

RBI raises collateral-free agricultural loan limit to ₹2 lakh

The Reserve Bank of India raised the limit for collateral-free agricultural loans, including loans for allied activities, from ₹1.6 lakh to ₹2 lakh per borrower, effective 1 January 2025.

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💹 Economy 📍 India

Centre lowers wheat stock limits until 31 March 2025

On 11 December 2024, in India, the Centre revised wheat stock limits applicable until 31 March 2025, cutting the limit for traders and wholesalers from 2,000 MT to 1,000 MT.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Punjab

Farmers' 'Delhi Chalo' foot march stopped at Shambhu border

On 6 December 2024, at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana, Haryana Police used tear gas to stop a group of 101 farmers who had begun a foot march to Delhi, and the march was suspended for the day.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

India and ADB sign $98 million loan for the Clean Plant Programme in horticulture

On 29 November 2024 in New Delhi, the Government of India and the Asian Development Bank signed a $98 million loan for 'Building India's Clean Plant Programme' to give horticulture farmers certified disease-free planting material.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

FCI to offload 25 LMT wheat under OMSS (Domestic) 2024 to moderate prices

On 28 November 2024, the Centre decided that the Food Corporation of India will offload 25 lakh metric tonnes of wheat through e-auction under the Open Market Sales Scheme (Domestic) 2024 to moderate open-market prices.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

BAHS 2024 released on National Milk Day: milk output 239.30 million tonnes in 2023-24

On 26 November 2024 (National Milk Day) in New Delhi, Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh released Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2024, putting 2023-24 milk production at 239.30 million tonnes.

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💹 Banking & RBI 📍 Delhi Important

Amit Shah at NAFSCOB Diamond Jubilee: goal of district cooperative banks in 80% of districts in 5 years

On 26 November 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, Cooperation Minister Amit Shah attended the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of NAFSCOB and a national meeting of Rural Cooperative Banks.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet approves National Mission on Natural Farming with ₹2,481-crore outlay

On 25 November 2024 in New Delhi, the Union Cabinet approved the National Mission on Natural Farming as a standalone Centrally Sponsored Scheme with an outlay of ₹2,481 crore till 2025-26.

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🏆 National Awards 📍 India Important

National Gopal Ratna Awards 2024 announced; special award for North Eastern States added

On 23 November 2024, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying announced the National Gopal Ratna Awards 2024 winners, to be given on National Milk Day, 26 November, in New Delhi, and added a special award for North Eastern Region States.

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💹 Economy 📍 Delhi Important

Amit Shah at NCDC's 91st General Council: five-year plan to raise sugar mill funding to ₹25,000 crore

On 23 November 2024 in New Delhi, Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed the 91st General Council meeting of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) and proposed a five-year plan to raise sugar mills' funding to ₹25,000 crore.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Tomato Grand Challenge: Centre funds 28 innovations out of 1,376 ideas

On 22 November 2024 in New Delhi, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said 28 ideas under the Tomato Grand Challenge have been funded for prototype development and mentorship, out of 1,376 received.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Delhi Important

World Fisheries Day 2024: 5th Marine Fisheries Census launched; Kerala best marine state, Telangana best inland

On 21 November 2024 in New Delhi, Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh marked World Fisheries Day by launching the 5th Marine Fisheries Census, a National Plan of Action on Sharks and other initiatives, and presenting awards to Kerala, Telangana and others.

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