Mangaluru: An integrated pest management approach will help in checking the whitefly menace affecting the coconut trees in different parts of South India, including Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Scientists from CPCRI, Kasargod, said that Rugose Spiralling Whitefly (RSW), is an invasive pest first reported on coconut palms from Belize, Central America during 2004. It […]

Mangaluru : Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (CAMPCO) Ltd. has achieved a record turnover of Rs. 1,600 crore and registered a net profit of Rs. 26.22 crore during 2016-17, said its president S.R. Satishchandra. Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Mr. Satishchandra said CAMPCO has now ventured in to pepper procurement and marketing […]

Mangaluru: Prabhakar Bhat, principal scientist, All India Project for Small Millets, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), said on Saturday that it was essential to consume millets as they were more nutritious and had medicinal value. He was speaking after the inaugurating an awareness programme on millets organised by Radio Manipal, a community radio station, […]

Kasargod: The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited (CAMPCO) will organize ‘Kisan Mela’ and a mega exhibition ‘Centenary Expo’ from December 10-13 at CPCRI, Kasargod. ‘Kisan Mela’ is being organized by ICAR – Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod on the occasion of their centenary celebrations. Honorable Union Minister for Agriculture and […]

Mangalore: Even as the proposal to convert the College of Fisheries (CoF) here into a National institute is being considered, the Indian Centre for Agricultural Research (ICAR) will sanction Rs. 2 crore for maintenance of the more than four-decade-old college. Announcing this at a formal function to handover a patent on a shrimp disease testing […]