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Today we will know about some agriculture update 

• Agriculture export in India has well performed during 2020-21 which increases of 17.34% at $41.25bn. While in last three year was $38.43bn in 2017-18, $38.74bn in 2018-19, and $35.16bn in 2019-20.

• Availability of milk in India per capita is 406gm/day in 2019-20 while in 2015-16 it is 337gm/day.
• Amount of vitamin D in a glass of milk is equal to vitamin D in 3 large eggs.
• Recently India got 3 GI tag in different mango variety which are khirsapati (Himsagar) & lakshmanbhog both are from madhya pardesh and Zardalu from bihar.
• We can use 625kg of cattle dung to set up a bio gas plant of 3KW capacity. (Note-: Methan village in patan distric of gujrat is home to india's largest biogas plant)
• 3 centers of excellence establish \ed in karnataka under indo-israel agri project. Israel agro technology will be tailored to local condition.
• Jaffrabandi is the heaviest indian buffalo breed which weight is upto 800 kg. It is also known as bhavanagri, gir, and jaffari.
• Recently ICAR-IIRR (Indian Institute of rice research) release 4 new variety namely DRR Dhan 53, DRR Dhan 54, DRR Dhan 55, DRR Dhan 56.
• Recently cabinet approves minimum support price MSP for kharif crop for marketing season 2021-22. the highest absolute increase in MSP over the previous year has been recommended for seasam is rs 452/quintal followed by tur & urad rs 300/quintal.
• recently Govt. of India increase subsidy on fertilizer previously it is 500rs per bag but now it increase 1200 rs per bag which have been increase 140%.
• In a flower of kesar, only three thread of kesar found which is the reason of kesar high price.
• do you know world agri tourism day celebrated on 16 may every year  this year theme was'' rural women sustainable entrepreneurship opportunities through agri tourism''.
• recently indian scientist develop new soybean variety ‘’MACS 1407'' this new variety has yellow seed, white coloured flower, and black hilum. it is high yielding variety approx 39 quintal / hac. which contain 41% protein and 19.81% oil content.
• Recently telangana govt. ban fertilizer glyphosate. which is a herbicide specially use in HtBt cotton.( In 2015, world health organisation classify glyphosate under category 2A, that is  a''probably carcinogenic in human'') 

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