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The latest victim – or multiple victims – are vegetable oils. The prices of rapeseed, sunflower and palm oil have all tracked ...
Raghava Reddy made the remarks during a visit to the oil palm nursery in Jangaon district as part of his campaign to promote ...
The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare will extend the NMEO-OP scheme to Assam's tea estates for oil palm ...
Preventive measures, including pheromone traps and Forate tablets, urged to combat Rhinoceros Beetle and protect oil palm crops in critical season.
Leading tea planters' body, the North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) on Thursday urged both Central and state governments to ...
The central government has allowed tea estates in Assam to benefit from the flagship oil palm mission, weeks after an ...
The central government has approved the inclusion of Assam's tea estates in the National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm ...
The government is set to launch a Palm Industry Policy aimed at cultivating 50,000 hectares of oil palm across the country. The first 20,000 hectares require an estimated investment of $100 million.
Tea estates can now use up to five percent of their land for oil palm cultivation while receiving financial assistance ...
Oil palm trees are perennial crops with an economic life of 25 years. The same amount of land being used for producing one tonne of palm oil would require at least five to eight times the land ...