Agriculture secretary cancels $600K grant for study on menstrual cycles in transgender men OK this makes sense Agriculture is about things growing Transgender men all have something that grows https://t.co/YZxsWlndMV

The agriculture sector, like many Maine industries concerned by a potential trade war, is deeply interconnected with the state’s northern neighbor. Every year, Maine exports $1.4 billion in goods to Canada and in turn imports more than $5 billion worth of goods. #tariffs# #tariffscostUS# #tariffscostMaine# #tradeconnectsus# https://t.co/nYzpoiaadg

To enhance cooperation in the field of agriculture and food security, a high-level meeting was held between Union Minister @ChouhanShivraj and Israel’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Avi Dicter ➔ Agreement signed to strengthen cooperation in the field of Agriculture ➔ Work Plan exchanged between India and Israel in Horticulture Sector Read here: https://t.co/7RqTzBalKK

New machine vision technologies have opened doors for precision agriculture, enabling advances in crop monitoring, automated harvesting, weed detection and livestock management. From identifying diseased plants before they spread to ensuring that crops are harvested at peak ripeness, this #IndustryInsight# looks at how machine vision enhances productivity and sustainability—as well as exploring which applications aren't yet ready for prime time: https://t.co/Ue7bVYj47y With insights from David Dechow of Machine Vision Source, Minna Törmälä of Specim and Cornelius Neufeld of @Nature_Fresh. 👏 #MachineVision# #Agritech# #PrecisionAgriculture# #Drones# #HypospectralImaging# #YieldOptimization#

Algorand is bringing real-world assets on-chain. ✈️ Airline Tickets 💰 Currencies 📈 Stocks ⚽️ FIFA World Cup Tickets 🏡 Real Estate ☕ Coffee 🏦 Financial Assets 🏺 Historical Events 🖼️ Art ⚡ Solar Panels 🌊 Water Credits 🏅 Precious Metals 🎶 Music Royalties 🌍 Carbon Credits 🌾 Agriculture ...and more. Algorand is powering real-world adoption, one asset at a time.

While in Bangalore, I also visited @DBT_inStem, a leading hub for biological research tackling global health, agriculture, and nutrition challenges. This work is a great reminder of how our partnerships can lead to global solutions and how exciting innovations are underway. https://t.co/6hAa58NTxy

Union Minister @AmitShah chairs a review meeting on development projects in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar During the review meeting, the achievements of the Union Territory in the fields of power, connectivity, industry, tourism, agriculture etc. were presented before the Union Minister Read here: https://t.co/2bICjJO6P7 @HMOIndia

Wi-Fi 7, along with Wi-Fi 6/6E and Wi-Fi HaLow, is enhancing speed, coverage, and latency, making it a strong alternative to cellular networks. These technologies are crucial for IoT, smart homes, and applications like AR/VR. Wi-Fi 7 improves reliability with multi-link operation and reduced latency, while Wi-Fi 6/6E offer better efficiency and power management. Enhanced WPA3 security makes these technologies ideal for enterprise use. Wi-Fi HaLow supports long-range, low-power applications like agriculture. With growing demand, Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 is expected to capture 43% of the market by 2025. Read Quectel’s new white paper to learn more about the growing versatility of Wi-Fi, and how Quectel’s vast portfolio of Wi-Fi antennas and modules can support applications from wearables and smart home appliances to critical infrastructure in factories, hospitals and stadiums. Download this white paper today! https://t.co/QUnyOZrxQ8

Sampoornata Abhiyan Ustav was celebrated in Harichandanpur Block, Keonjhar District, Odisha on the eve of the launch of Block Level Sampoornata Abhiyan. It commenced as a vibrant and engaging event at Harichandanpur with participation from students, PRI members, block officials, frontline workers, and locals. Over 400 students took part in a spirited Pravat Pheri, followed by the Sampoornata pledge, a signature campaign, quiz and sports competitions. The event featured a Paushtik Aahar Mela with millet food stalls, health camps for Sickle Cell Anemia, Hypertension, and Diabetes testing, and a sapling distribution by the Horticulture Department. #SampoornataAbhiyan# #NITIAayog# #PMOIndia# #BharatKeBadhteKadam# #HealthcareforAll# #Agriculture# #PoshanAbhiyan#

Sampoornata Abhiyan launches in Odisha with eager participation across Harichandanpur Block, Keonjhar District, Banspal Block, Keonjhar District, Nuapada District, Lamtaput Block, Koraput District, and Thuamul Rampur Block, Kalahandi District! This initiative targets saturation of 12 key indicators in health, nutrition, agriculture, social development, and education sectors within 3 months. Sampoornata Abhiyan Utsav was celebrated with zeal, featuring Paushtik Aahar Mela, health camps, sapling distribution, and cultural programmes Other activities included Paushtik Aahar Mela, health camps, ICDS camps, and cultural programmes. #SampoornataAbhiyan# #NITIAayog# #PMOIndia# #BharatKeBadhteKadam# #HealthcareInfrastructure# #SocialDevelopment# #Agriculture# #PoshanAbhiyan#

Odisha takes a significant step towards holistic development! Sampoornata Abhiyan was enthusiastically launched in various blocks and districts, including Laxmipur block of Koraput district, Phirigia block of Kandhamal district , Madanpur Rampur of Gumma district, and R Udaygiri block. This campaign aims to achieve saturation in 6 key indicators across health, nutrition, agriculture, social development, and education, impacting the lives of thousands. It promotes collaborative efforts among citizens, officials, and stakeholders to ensure comprehensive development. The launch events saw enthusiastic participation, with rallies, cultural performances, informative stalls, and pledge ceremonies. Around 200-250 people attended the launch in Koraput, which featured a rally and informational booths on healthy food and disease testing. There were rallies and pledges with active participation by residents, students, and block officials. Vibrant"Sampoornata Mela and Utsav" followed, where local tribes showcased cultural performances, and various stalls highlighted local products aligned with the six indicators of the Sampoornata Abhiyaan. The event also featured competitions at the block level, providing students with an opportunity to display their talents. #SampoornataAbhiyan# #NitiAayog# #PMOIndia# #BharatKeBadhteKadam#

The EU’s offer is insufficient. They propose eliminating tariffs solely on manufactured goods while excluding agricultural products and failing to address the barriers that hinder many of our products from entering their markets.

Rural women's role is crucial to: 💵 reduce rural poverty 🍅 improve food security 🍌 improve nutrition 🌾 increase agricultural productivity #InvestInRuralWomen#, invest in prosperity. https://t.co/cJoXzeGcjO

PHOTO | Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel (@Bhupendrapbjp) introduces transformative reforms to simplify land revenue processes, including treating agricultural lands under new tenure as old tenure, faster issuance of revenue certificates, and streamlined approval for land conversions. These measures aim to boost industrial growth, support farmers, and create a more efficient, citizen-centric governance system. (Source: Third Party)

Great work today by @USDOL @SecretaryLCD @Sonderling47 cancelling $577M in “America Last” grants for $237M in savings, including: - $10M for "gender equity in the Mexican workplace" - $12.2M for "worker empowerment in South America" - $6.25M for "improving respect for Worker's rights in agricultural supply chains" in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador - $5M for "elevating women's participation in the workplace" in West Africa - $4.3M for "assisting foreign migrant workers" in Malaysia - $3M to "enhance social security access and worker protections for internal migrant workers" in Bangladesh - $3M for "safe and inclusive work environments" in Lesotho

Livestock Ministry Faces Digital Deficit: No Website or Contact Info Months after its creation, Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Livestock Development (FMLD) remains without a website, making it the only ministry in the country lacking an online presence. A review by TheCable revealed that the ministry also has no official social media accounts. The FMLD was proposed by President Bola Tinubu during the inauguration of the Presidential Committee on Livestock Reforms in July 2024. Tinubu emphasized the sector's potential to boost agricultural productivity, enhance exports, and stimulate economic growth by developing a strong value chain that benefits farmers, processors, herders, distributors, and consumers. The committee, set up in September 2023, aims to reform the livestock industry and address the ongoing conflicts between pastoralists and farmers over land, pasture, and water. It was established following a report from the national conference on livestock reforms and conflict mitigation in Nigeria. The committee presented 21 recommendations, including the establishment of the Ministry of Livestock Resources. The president announced that he would chair the committee, with former INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega serving as co-chair.

The purpose of science in GOD's plan John 1:3 Through Him, all things were made, and without Him, nothing was made that has been made. Science removes our need for GOD. Science dispels faith and the need for GOD. Many of the life's answers can be answered by science. Hence, no one needs to run into a church for healing if they can walk into a hospital. No farmer needs to pray for an abundant harvest when they have agricultural science behind them, ensuring many of their problems can be resolved through science. Therefore, no one needs to go to GOD in prayer for every trivial matter. In other words, GOD outsources man's reliance on Him to Science. Hence, a man does not need to waste his time early in the morning praying for his sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, and a long list of mundane things but to pray for things of eternal value. GOD, through science, answered man's prayers before he even asked. Via the Internet, any problem can be answered immediately. All we have to do is ask the most knowledgeable person, AI ( artificial intelligence), and the next thing we know, voila, we get a perfect answer. Science allows us to solve things ourselves before we approach GOD. Even if we ask God, we might not get a fast answer. Therefore, science, in terms of technology, plays a more significant role in a person's life than GOD. Supremacy of GOD over science Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out. If science dispels faith and the need for God, then what is God's purpose for science? GOD is a jealous GOD, and He will not allow anything to stand higher than Him, not Satan and not even science, replacing His importance. He is the creator of all things, and He will not create anything that diminishes His supremacy. He planned the beginning from the end and knew the cause and effect of everything so nothing would catch Him by surprise. When GOD said, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts", He means He is supreme beyond our understanding. He is much better and knows much more than we do. Science is merely a search engine that searches for what GOD has concealed. Since science discovers the mysteries of the universe that GOD has, it implies science is not above GOD and will not supersede Him because the master behind science is GOD. Science's failure to find GOD. Mark 4:12 They may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding. Science often messes up our heads regarding GOD. What science cannot establish does not mean it does not exist. Science establishes itself through facts and figures, while GOD is through faith. If we use facts and figures to measure GOD, we will not be able to find Him because we are using the wrong parameters. It is similar to using a thermometer to measure the volume of water. We cannot use physical means to measure spiritual matters because GOD can only be spiritually discerned. Since science has yet to develop a spiritual detector, it fails to find GOD. To see Him, we need faith to connect with Him and know His existence. Without faith, we are spiritually dead and can never find Him. Science is like an atheist, lacking in spiritual dimension; it is spiritually dead and, metaphorically speaking, has no wifi connection to GOD. They are 'ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding.' Only spiritually alive people have spiritual detectors to see and hear from GOD. Hence, science, figuratively speaking, cannot hear and see from GOD. GOD, beyond science but within the Bible John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. What science cannot do, but we can. By reading the Bible, we can discover GOD. He presents Himself in the complexity of His Word, the Bible through events, stories and parables. To find Him, we cannot read the Bible at face value as if reading a novel. The Word needs to come alive by the anointing of the Holy Spirit to make GOD alive. Then, we can piece Him together. If not, we will be like the six blind men from ancient Indian folklore of the blind men and an elephant. Each blind man who had never seen an elephant tried to imagine what the elephant was like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part. They then describe the animal based on the portion they touched. The first man who touched his leg said the elephant was like a pillar. The second man who touched his tail said the elephant was like a rope. The third man who touched his trunk said the elephant was like a tree branch. The fourth man who touched the ear said the elephant was like a fan. The fifth man who touched the belly said the elephant was a wall. The sixth man who touched the tusk said the elephant was like a solid pipe. The importance of knowing the whole picture The descriptions of the same elephant differ from one another, each insisting he was right. All of them were right in parts, but none of them got the whole picture right. Therefore, none of them know what an elephant is. It was no fault of their own as they were blind. We are not blind, but GOD is like the elephant, too big to see within our range of vision. Our eyes limit us. Therefore, our minds cannot conceptualize Him. To know GOD with our restricted vision, we need to piece the fragments of GOD together with the borrowed eye of the Holy Spirit to see through the Bible, to see what we cannot. Like a puzzle, we need to put all the parts together to understand the totality of GOD. If not, it is as good as holding a piece of the puzzle, thinking we know GOD through it. Thus, if anyone were to tell us something different from what we know, do not label them as false prophets. Instead, be humble and pray for GOD to open our eyes and expand our minds so that we can see beyond what we can. Science does not point us to GOD. Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Spiritual blindness robs us of knowing GOD. Science has no spiritual radar. It is spiritually blind and cannot see GOD. Therefore, science cannot discover GOD and point us to Him. What science cannot do, the Bible can. The reason for our spiritual blindness is our carnal nature, the flesh. If we cannot master our evil nature, we are confirmed blind. Our evil nature turns us away from GOD, so we cannot see Him. If we are not totally blind, we can be partially blind because of our spiritual limitation, which comes from the lack of anointing of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is like the elephant in ancient Indian folklore, and we are like the blind men. When we read through the Bible, we touch the different facets of God. However, we are partially blind towards Him because we are stiff-headed in our opinion, not accepting all that is written in the Bible, wearing blinkers, and, like the blind men, refusing to look from other angles. Mental blind spot syndrome In other words, we have mental blind spots that lead to spiritual blindness, which science cannot help. The reason is many perceive God from their favourite perspective by accepting what suits our sinful nature, creating a lopsided view of GOD. Preachers like to speak on messages of forgiveness of sin but not on stopping sin, and blessings but not curses because that is what many want to hear. We become like small children; they pick what they like to eat, and we choose what we want to hear, which is unhealthy. Therefore, like the six blind men's ideas of an elephant, we create our idea of GOD. He becomes an alien, not who He is, but what we formulate Him to be. Scientific discoveries are from GOD. God said, "Now, if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him" He understood that many mysteries of things are beyond our understanding and scientific investigation. In other words, by default, we lack wisdom and understanding. However, when a solution is critically needed, those who seek Him, regardless of believers or unbelievers, will be satisfied. When we ask, He will answer. The advancement in science is that many who ask GOD tough questions get solid solutions. He will not find fault with anyone who asks, even if he is not with His. Therefore, it is GOD, through science, who created the miracles, not science, through the ingenuity of men. Hence, the solutions that science provides are nothing more than ideas from GOD. Everything revolves around GOD, including science. Science liberates us time to know GOD. Science improves life and liberates many of the inconveniences of living, providing solutions to many earthly problems. God wants us to be more like Mary and not like Martha, who was weighed down with the daily chores and worried over many things. GOD does not want us to be busy with unnecessary things, so we have more time for Him. He wants us to concentrate on one crucial thing: spending more time learning His Word and developing a closer relationship with Him. The purpose is for us to prepare for our eternality. Without enough spiritual knowledge, we cannot grasp the different aspects of God, making Him contradictory and lacking in consistency. If we want to know God, we need to seek Him with all of our hearts by understanding His Word. Only when we have spiritual understanding will we have the tools to decode the mysteries written in the Word and not be misguided by our ignorance. If not, we are like a computer lacking the required language to understand spiritual matters. Knowing the Bible is not knowing how to read all the words in it but understanding what is being said in between the lines. Science reduces our transactional relationship with GOD. When there is a problem, there is a need, and that is when a man needs GOD. If a man is happy and has what he wants, he is contented with life and has no problems. He does not need GOD. That is the reality: a man only seeks God when he is in need. Once his problems are over, he may forget about Him. This transactional relationship with God, akin to a marriage of convenience where the focus is on 'What can I get out of it?' is dangerous. When the need is over, the relationship is over. A relationship based on needs is a one-sided relationship with much to be needed. The person in need puts himself in a disadvantaged position in the relationship where he is always not measuring up. If we worship GOD, it is out of motive and not out of love. GOD's love for us is pure, without motives. Therefore, He does not want to dangle carrots in front of us for love. He does not want us to be like a bird in a cage but a bird free to soar the sky. If we love Him, we will fly back to Him voluntarily, without compulsion but of love. Science reduces the problems of life and our reliance on GOD. That releases us from a relationship out of need but out of choice. If anyone were to choose Him, it would not be out of benefits but because they want to. Science becomes a good test of a man's heart towards God. Science frees man from many mundane problems and frees us from the need for GOD. So if the Son sets us free, we will be free indeed, even of Him. Through science, GOD created a better and more exciting world for us that is independent of Him. The question remains: Do we still want Him who is against our fallen nature or move on to one who is accommodating to our fallen selves? Time and advancements in science have revealed the answer. In Europe, many churches of the early Christians are left empty and are converted for drinking, dancing, and other purposes other than a place of worship. There are more people in the pub than in a church, showing that Christianity has lost its favour and popularity. In other words, men have left their faith because they have found something better. Once GOD has outlived His usefulness, they dump Him. Conclusion: The limitation of science Science can have its benefits, but it is not above God. No matter how excellent science is, it can only clean the outside of the cup and not the inside. What is of eternal value is to clean the cup on the inside, which science cannot do. No matter what science can do for us to liberate us from the need for God, we should not let go of Him. Our lives are more than what we have on earth. Improvement, progress and advancement are only temporary. What we have with GOD is eternal. Prayer: God, thank you for the comfort and convenience that science and technology bring. Continue to open my eyes and expand my mind to know You better. Let Your Word wash the inside of my cup, and let me not be contented with science that cleans on the outside. Science is only Your servant. Let me not be contented with Your servant and miss out on You, the Master