Recently Agri-News

Indian Prime Minister launched the Kisan Suryodaya Yojana in Gujarat.
Under the scheme, 16 hours of power supply shall be provided to farmers.

Key Point

Objective: To provide day-time power supply for irrigation.
Under this scheme, farmers will be able to avail power supply from 5 AM to 9 PM.
The state government has allocated a budget of Rs.3500 crore for installing transmission infrastructure under this scheme by 2023.
234 ‘66-Kilowatt’ transmission lines will be established under the project, in addition to 220 KV substations.
Districts to be covered in initial phase: Dahod, Patan, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Kheda, Tapi, Valsad, Anand and Gir-Somnath have been
The remaining districts will be covered in a phase-wise manner by 2022-23.

Recent Agri-news: Recently, the restoration process of seagrasses is taken up by Tamil Nadu in the Gulf of Mannar

Seagrasses

These are flowering plants that grow submerged in shallow marine waters like bays and lagoons.
These have tiny flowers and strap-like or oval leaves.
Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants that recolonised the ocean around 70-100 million years ago.
Seagrasses also produce food by photosynthesis
They reproduce sexually as well as asexually.
Some of the important seagrasses:

Recent Agri Current affair News

After 35 years, India has assumed the Chairmanship of the Governing Body of International Labour Organization (ILO).
Labour & Employment Secretary Apurva Chandra has been elected as the Chairperson for the period October 2020-June 2021.
Functions of ILO :

Apurva Chandra