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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Bananas

Bananas are India’s horticulture success story. Time to up the game in international markets

Siraj Hussain -
Better farm practices, and improved storage, ripening and transportation by reefer vans can reduce losses and enhance the quality of Indian bananas in the international market.

The banana is in danger. Nuclear tech can save it

Victoria Masterson -
A staple across the world, the fruit is under threat from one of the world's deadliest banana diseases.

Andhra is going bananas — how India’s largest producer of the fruit is breaking own record

Samyak Pandey -
Andhra is set to export 75,000 metric tonnes in 2020-21, continuing its run of success in producing bananas. Officials & private firms credit partnership model.

Good news from the farms — fruit, vegetable prices set to ease with big jump in production

Samyak Pandey -
Ministry of Agriculture’s estimates, however, show that production of apple, spices & tomato is estimated to decline in 2020-21 as compared to previous year. 

Masks made from Banana-tree species could be the answer to cutting Covid plastic waste

Andreo Calonzo -
Abaca, a fiber derived from a banana tree relative, is as durable as polyester but can decompose within two months. The Philippines is the world’s largest producer of it.

Climate change threatens cultivation of Indian banana, global warming likely to hit output

Sandhya Ramesh -
A new study has found that climate change will slash banana yields, in a prospect daunting for India, the biggest consumer and producer of the fruit.

Scientists are in a race to save the humble banana from extinction

Stuart Thompson -
This crisis is a warning that we are growing our food in an unsustainable way, and we need to look at more radical changes for a permanent solution.

Bananas and biwis: The two things Virat Kohli wants for cricket World Cup 2019

Sandip Roy -
If we cannot stand up for our right to bananas from the sahibs why did we win Independence at all?

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Opinion

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

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Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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