RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
Ministry Of Agriculture
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Pesticide testing labs should be fully-equipped, directs High Court
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government to make its laboratories fully-equipped for testing the presence of pesticide residues in samples of vegetables and fruits sold here so that
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फील्ड ट्रायल की इजाजत मांगी
जीएम फसलों पर कृषि मंत्रालय ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में दिया हलफनामा सरकार ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट से आग्रह किया है कि वह उसे जीएम फसलों के फील्ड ट्रायल की इजाजत दे। कृषि मंत्रालय ने कोर्ट में एक हलफनामा दाखिल करते
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Rs. 352 crore to farmers for replanting horticultural crops
Parts of M.P., Rajasthan hit by rain, hailstorm The Centre will provide an assistance of Rs. 352 crore to farmers for replanting horticulture crops that were hit by untimely rain and hailstorm earlier this month in parts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
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Farmers driven to suicide as unseasonal rains, hailstorm ruin crops
Nearly five dozen farmers in Maharashtra, MP have committed suicide this month over debt worries, say advocacy groups Unseasonal rains and hailstorms this month have damaged the winter-sown crops of millions of Indian farmers, but Rekha Garole lost more than others. Her 42-year-old husband Santuka killed himself this month after hail devastated the wheat and chickpea crops that they had been counting on to repay a bank loan of Rs 90,000.
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In Maharashtra, 23 farmers commit suicide in hailstorm-hit villages
Puts Congress-NCP alliance under embarassing situation ahead of Lok Sabha polls About 23 farmers from the hailstorm and untimely rainfall hit villages in Maharashtra have so far committed suicides. Six each are from the underdeveloped Vidarbha region and Nashik in north Maharashtra, 10 from Aurangabad and one from Sangli.
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Launch awareness campaign about effects of pesticide residue: HC
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government and the Union Agriculture Ministry to launch an awareness campaign about the harmful effects of pesticide residue in fruits and vegetable
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Nod to field trials of GM seeds flayed
The nod given to field trials of more than 200 genetically modified (GM) seeds by the Union Agriculture Ministry smacks of vested interests of the Congress-led government, claimed Bharatiya Janata Party
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Experts want GM field trials without NoC from states
Thirty-five agricultural scientists, most of them associated with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), on Tuesday mooted the continuation of field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops under their guidance, without a no-objection certificate (NoC) from the respective state governments. “Agriculture is a state subject, and state agricultural universities and agriculture departments of respective states must involve themselves in field trials for GM crops without losing time.
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Allow us to pump water from BML, Haryana pleads in SC
Punjab, Rajasthan oppose state’s plea on using Hansi-Butana canal Citing Centre’s alert on possible drought in 2014 due to the El Nino effect, Haryana today pleaded in the Supreme Court for using the 109-km Hansi-Butana canal by pumping water from the Bakhra Mainline (BML).
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Okay with GM crops after strict trial: Govt
Even as the final call on the fate of genetically modified (GM) food crops in India will be taken by the Supreme Court, the government on Wednesday made it clear that it does not have any reservation against