Tata Steel wins EEPC award

 Arun Jailey, Union minister of commerce & industry was present and gave away the awards. T Mukheerjee, deputy managing director (steel), Tata Steel received the award for Tata Steel.

 The agriculture ministry has suggested some steps to the states for achieving a quantum jump in the production of pulses.

 These include emphasis on the production and distribution of seeds of improved varieties of pulses, balanced use of nutrients including sulphur, seed treatment with the Rhizobium culture, irrigation at the critical stage of the crop growth, use of the sprinkler mode of irrigation, adequate availability of bio-control agents like NPV for controlling pod borer, the major pest.

 The ministry has also highlighted the need to encourage the inter-cropping and multiple cropping of rabi pulses.

 Although there is not much scope for expansion of area under pulses, the expansion of area coverage is possible through inter-cropping and multiple cropping.

 The scope exists for cultivation of gram as inter-crop with mustard in Punjab, Harayana, western Uttar Pradesh, northern Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.