Hi, NewsWrap for April 09, 2021

Coronavirus News, Agriculture update, Weather Report, Fertilizers

9 April 2021

  • Thunderstorms expected over West Bengal and North East states

    Thunderstorms with lightening with fast winds are expected today, over West Bengal and North East states. Rainfall is expected to follow it till 12th April.

  • Cleaning river Ganga

    Clean Ganga Fund has received over Rs 450 crores in donation from individuals and organizations, both private and public. Citizens are showing their enthusiasm in cleaning the river by contributing to the fund. These funds are being used in projects to clean the river.

  • Multi-feed millet dehuller simplifies life for Dehradun farmers

    Processed millet can be used to produce biscuits, breakfast cereals and snacks. Separating millet from the husk is a time consuming and labour intensive task and introduction of the dehuller has simplified and speeded up the way the farmers work. This will revive millet farming in the region. These machines are shared by a number of millet growing villages.

  • Tikait's Instagram account verified

    Rakesh Tikait, the farmers agitation spokesperson, has an Instagram account with photographs of his and protesting farmers daily activities. Photographs of their rallies, meetings and any extraordinary incidents are added here. This account is now a verified account.

  • 1.2 million hectares of deforested area to be restored in Indonesia

    Big multinational companies are joining hands with total investments amounting to 1 billion to stop deforestation and to grow forests wherever possible. Pepsico and Nestle are pumping this investment for forest conservation and tackling the world wide problem of pollution.

  • No price increase for fertilizers

    Government has announced that prices of fertilizers will not be increased as some fertilizer companies were trying to do. The fertilizer companies had announced this increase in price due to increase in the price of the chemicals, that form these fertilizers, globally.

  • 21 retail stores for Glass House pot in California by early next year

    21 retails stores selling pot will be part of Glass House's operations in California, by the first quarter of 2022. It's new acquisitions will be funded by the Mercer Park Brand Acquisition Corp with whom it has decided to merge.

  • More deaths and infections in Uttar Pradesh

    36 persons have died in UP in last 24 hours and almost 10,000 new cases of infections have been registered. Uttar Pradesh has been moderately affected by Corona so far but the situation is being continuously monitored to make sure that situation is in control.

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9 April 2021

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