Rishi Tyagi

Passionate for genetic diversity, believe in science, technology, innovations for sustainable food and nutritional security🌾🌽🍌🍎 RT not always as endorsement

[AF Post @AFpost]

India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.

Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.

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Protecting India’s seed sovereignty

Over 10,500 plant varieties registered under PPV&FRA, including over 5,250 farmers’ varieties, 3,118 private-sector breeder varieties and 2,164 public-sector varieties

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India’s Summer Crop Sowing Rises to 86.02 Lakh Hectares; Pulses, Maize and Groundnut Lead Growth
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INDIA: 33.4 Million hectare of wheat crop remains resilient despite weather-related challenges (heat stress), due to higher acreage, timely sowing, and improved varietal adoption.

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#AI

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In India, agriculture, which still supports close to half the country’s workforce, cannot be carried into that vision on a climate-stressed, water-short, soil-depleted production base.

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How climate-resilient agriculture, sustainable farming are emerging as key investment focus within India’s

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Wageningen University & Research Launches Field Trials for Gene-Edited Potatoes to Cope with Phytophthora.
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[Dr Rajendra Singh Paroda @ParodaDr]

Seeds of Transformation- The Raj S. Paroda Story
@icarindia @AgriGoI
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Seeds of Transformation: The Raj S. Paroda Story

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Indian scientists create world’s first AI-designed gene editor for crops

While a US company had earlier developed a similar AI-designed system for human cells, this is the first successful demonstration in plants

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[the meji. @mejitwo]

Petition to change "et al." to "and gang" in academia

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Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough! Nature salutes you

The science communicator has raised awareness of the natural world and its myriad interconnections on which humans depend

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Did Bt cotton fail India, or did India fail Bt cotton?

For 20 years, the pink bollworm has been quietly evolving past India's Bt cotton, while the country's laboratories waited for a regulatory signature that never came.

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CODE PARODA

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CODE PARODA book by Mr Arun Tiwari - one of the authors who also wrote Best Seller
“Wings on Fire” - on Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

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Cabinet Clears Rs 5,659 Crore Mission for Cotton Productivity to Boost Self-Sufficiency by 2030-31

https://t.co/AFu92sojZT

[Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources @IJPGR]

Calling all researchers in Plant Genetic Resources from Peninsular India!
We are delighted to announce that NSPPI 2026 will be hosted at ICAR–Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, on 17-19 September 2026.
Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract!

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Hunger declines globally, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report

This year’s The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report also examines the causes and consequences of recent food inflation

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The Role of Genetically Modified Crops in Eradicating Hunger and Their Acceptance in Indian Society

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