Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Cut off of IBPS Specialist officer (Agriculture field officer) 2017-18

Main examination was of 60 marks. Markes out of 60 was converted into marks out of 80. Ratio of mains : interview is 80:20. So final cut off marks were given out of 100.


Monday, January 1, 2018

Livestock Disease Forewarning (LDF) Mobile app launched by Minister of Agriculture, gov of India

Shri Radha Mohan Singh launches Livestock Disease Forewarning –Mobile Application (LDF-Mobile App) 

Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh today launched Livestock Disease Forewarning –Mobile Application (LDF-Mobile App), developed by ICAR-National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics (ICAR-NIVEDI), Bengaluru, in New Delhi. At the launch, Union Agriculture Minister informed that dreaded Rinderpest disease has been eradicated from India and stressed that similar efforts are needed to control and eradicate diseases like FMD, PPR, Brucellosis, CSF, BT, HS etc., which cause huge economic loss annually to the livestock rearers and livestock industry as a whole.

Union Agriculture Minister said that ICAR-NIVEDI has identified 13 priority diseases based on their past incidence patterns and has built a strong database of these diseases and has been providing monthly livestock disease alerts to the state and central animal husbandry departments.