Food and Civil Supplied minister Manoj Kanti Deb said, the state government is willing to purchase rice from farmers for public distribution system as FCI buys rice of Rs. 600 crore from out of the state.
Category: Agriculture
FRC-LE to introduce Bufang Kaimani Ter for promoting Afforestation
The FRC-LE planned to introduce the concept of ‘Plantation Festival Initiative’ for Barkathal Village Cluster. The local community has also welcomed the idea and gave it a local name in Kokboroak language as 'Bufang Kaimani Ter'.
Waste to wealth: Hunt for bioenergy in Loktak's invasive plants
On the agenda is a proposal to set up a biorefinery, in the lake landscape, that churns carbohydrate-rich feedstock -- derived from an invasive weed called paragrass -- into alcohol and other value-added chemical products.
SMDS – VI youth summit and main summit
In this summit there were 6 youth representatives from Tripura (Pritam Choudhury, Robert Lushai, Monica Debbarma, Manusri Jamatia, Sariel T Reang and Poulami Saha).
World Ozone Day and World Bamboo Day organized by CFLE
The programme was inaugurated by the Regional Director CFLE. In his address Regional Director, CFLE, Agartala, Pawan K Kaushik explains the importance and objectives of the two international days.
CFLE organised Training on Bamboo Harvesting and Preservation
A total of 25 farmer trainees from two selected clusters namely Machmara in North Tripura and Barkathal in West Tripura Districts actively participated in the program.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar inspects Vedavathi Rejuvenation project sites
After his visit to Vedavathi basin, Gurudev will inspect and review Kumudavathi river rejuvenation work on Thursday. The Art of Living is currently working on reviving 30 rivers across India.
Promotion of Organic Farming with Low Cost Vermi-Composting Technique
There are many advantages of using LCVC technique like huge quantities of organic waste can be converted into a valuable product.
Delegation of GOI visits works under RKBY
Dr. Mamata Saxena said that she visited the state to observe different projects under Rastriya Krishi Vigyan Yojona implemented in the financial years 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14.
CFLE observing Van Mahotsav in Tripura
Bamboo species like Kanak kaich, Pecha, Hill jati, Rupai, Buddha belly and Guadua and other plant species like Chandan, Noni, Ashoka, Areca Palm, Yangchak, Australian Babulwere distributed for planting to the farmers of Yesrai village.
Forest smugglers vacate 50 pc trees at Atharomura
The smugglers are vacating the forest by cutting down valuable trees in large scale. The smugglers cut down the teak wood tree at 36 Mile area of Atharomura Hill at any time at night on Sunday.
Bamboo plantation comes to zero level by sale of bamboo shoots
Conscious people are thinking that the administration should start awareness programme on bad effect of plucking bamboo shoots at Panchayat to Village Committee level, at block and district level.
Congress in Tripura blocks rail stations to protest police fired-killing of 5 farmers in MP
The firing on Tuesday came during raucous protests to demand better crop prices in the drought-ravaged region that saw one farmer suicide every five hours in the past two years.
DMs, SPs of violence-hit MP districts transferred
The farmers agitation entered its eighth day on Thursday. The peasants have been on strike since June 1, demanding loan waiver and fair price for their produce.
Indian American selected among 12 NASA astronaut candidates
He continued on to earn a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from the US Naval Test Pilot School.
World's oldest human species' fossils found in Morocco
The institute said the remains of the Homo sapiens, which were found in a remote village called Jbel Irhoud, date back to over 300,000 years ago, Xinhua reported.
Yechury manhandled by two Hindu Sena activists at press meet
The Hindu Sena activists entered the CPI-M office premises in Gole Market area of central Delhi chanting "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and slogans against Yechury, a police official said.
SBI, Belonia Branch felicitates Akash and Rakesh
Besides, the bank authority felicitated Rakesh Goldar who passed Madhyamik this year by scoring 82 percent marks.
BJP organizes Sabka Sath Sabka Bikash meeting
Among others Prabhari of State BJP Sunil Deodhar, Asset Manager of ONGC, Tripura Satya Prakash Soni and Woman leader of BJP Pratima Bhowmik were present in the meeting.
Meeting for Third Division football to be held tomorrow
In this regard all the club representatives along with the TFA officials will discuss about the start of the tournament with 7 teams.
Kajal Memorial Football Tournament: Tripura Sports School to face Mungiakami School in final
Tripura Sports school once again played with lots of dominance and continued their good record in this tournament as previously they won the title for three times.
Souradip Wins Mayor Cup in international Chess Event
The tournament which was started from June 4 ended today at Lottery International School where 350 chess players from across the country took part.
Seminar held on ‘Protection of Women from Domestic Violence, Act-2015’ held at Agartala
Minister Bijita Nath said that despite equal rights are being dispatched for both man and women in the society, the male dominated society has come up raising the violence against women in the country.
Presidential election on July 17
"The date on which polling will be held, if required, is July 17. Counting, if required, will be done on July 20," Zaidi said.
BJP Mahila Morcha voices against increasing crime against women in Tripura, meets DGP
They also pointed out that crime against women in Tripura has crossed previous records of the country and the Left Front government has not taken adequate measures for providing security to women.