New facilities at NIPHM

Hyderabad: Chevella MP R Ranjith Reddy along with Union Agriculture Minister NS Tomar on Tuesday launched Pesticide Formulation and Residue Analytical Centre in a virtual inaugural programme. The new Analytical Centre was set up with a cost of Rs 17.54 crore at Rajendranagar. In addition to Pesticide Formulation facility, Ranjith Reddy and Tomar also virtually […]

Hyderabad: Chevella MP R Ranjith Reddy along with Union Agriculture Minister NS Tomar on Tuesday launched Pesticide Formulation and Residue Analytical Centre in a virtual inaugural programme. The new Analytical Centre was set up with a cost of Rs 17.54 crore at Rajendranagar.

In addition to Pesticide Formulation facility, Ranjith Reddy and Tomar also virtually laid the foundation for a Bio Control Lab to be set up with a cost of Rs 14.18 crore on the National Institute of Plant Health Management (NIPHM).

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NIPHM provides sustainable agricultural practices such as Agro eco system analysis, ecological engineering, use of parasitoids etc. It has also developed the media for multiplication of various microbial bio-pesticides and the mother cultures of different bio-fertilisers and bio-pesticides.

Considering the importance of setting up a bio control, the Ministry had recently sanctioned setting up of a bio control lab at NIPHM, said a press release.

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