Vadde tells farmers to use human excreta as manure
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Agriculture Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao felt that Indian farmers should shun their inhibition, and make use of human excreta as manure in counterparts in China were doing.
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EU ban stays on new GM crops
The European Union will remain closed to new genetically modified foods for the foreseeable future, despite the entry into force of tough regulations on authorising the growing or importation of new
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Task force on food, public distribution
Government has formed a task force on food and public distribution to ensure that foodgrains reach the targeted poor as part of the proper grains management in the country. New programmes for
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Distant farming lessons to peasants, students
Farmers and others eager to acquire knowledge in agricultural science will no longer need to be experts in reading, writing and arithmetic, if the decision to educate them through Gyan Vani and Dyan
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Jogi to raise loan, bail out farmers
With Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi's attempts to urge the Centre to solve some of his paddy problems not paying off, he has decided to help himself out. Jogi said he will now try and raise a
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Gowda, VP threaten stir for farmers
Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and V P Singh attacked the economic policies of the National Democratic Alliance government on Tuesday. They claimed that the government had put the farmers in a
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Insurance cover for eight crops
Eight crops have been brought under the crop insurance scheme for the 2002-03 kharif season at the hobli level. Under the two-year-old National Agricultural Insurance Scheme, financial support will
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Gowda, V.P. Singh assail Centre's farm policies
The former Prime ministers, H.D. Deve Gowda and V.P. Singh joined hands to take up the cause of farmers and threatened to launch a country wide agitation if the BJP led National Democratic Alliance
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Pune No.1 on food security index
Pune is the city which has been ranked first among 18 metropolitan cities in the country on the food security index by the Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India released by President A P J Abdul
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NE has potential for sweet potato cultivation
The northeastern region may not provide the perfect climate for all types of agricultural produce but its typical environment suits well to produce sweet potato which could generated employment and
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State Adm. to discontinue recovery from farmers
As several parts of Madhya Pradesh are reeling under severe drought, state administration has decided to discontinue the recovery drive for the ongoing year. These recoveries would be made in the
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Bio-farming yields results
District administration's efforts to develop awareness among farmers to adopt Bio-farming in Madhya Pradesh has started yielding results. Vigorous drives of bio-revolution that were undertaken by the
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Infam to take up baffalo death issue
A team of senior officials of Indian Farmers' Movement (INFAM), an organisation for the welfare of ryots, visited Pedickkattu Thuruthu today to study the circumstances that led to the death of scores
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Many go hungry in MP's cities
The northern states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi are the most food secure in urban areas, lists the Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India, prepared for the first time in the
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Crop diversification: Johl panel to meet today
The Johl committee, working on the blue print for diversification of Punjab state agriculture, will meet at Punjab Agricultural University to finalise the report. "The report is more or less ready.
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Agri contribution to Meghalaya economy on the decline
In an alarming scenario, the contribution often agriculture sector in Meghalaya to the state's economy is declining indicating that the 80 per cent of the state's population who are department on
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In China, gene work lies fallow
Huang Danian, an expert at China's National Rice Research Institute, has created a rice so resilient and tasty, he says, that 'every farmer in China will certainly want it. So far, however, it grows
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Ajit Singh seeks consensus on WTO position
India will evolve a domestic consensus based stand for the forthcoming negotiations on the World Trade Organisation's agreement on agriculture that could take care of the country's interests over the
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21 m. tonne shortfall in kharif crops likely
There is likely to be a shortfall of 21 million tonnes of foodgrains production, mainly in rice, coarse cereals and pulses, this year due to drought. The major loss of sowings during the kharif
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State 'bans' paddy cultivation
It is official now. The Andhra Pradesh State Cabinet is understood to have decided to "ban" rising of paddy during the Rabi season and will send a message to farmers that if they go ahead with paddy,