Agriculture fair in Rajkot
Aiming at developing farming and agro-based industrial sectors in Gujarat, a five-day agricultural fair would be held at Rajkot from May 28. It was a matter of concern that there was considerable
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Brazil farmers draw line in field over GMO soy
Brazilian farmers in the No. 3 soy state of Rio Grande do Sul faced off last week over one of the most hotly contested agricultural safety issues in the country and the world - genetically modified
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Farmers unhappy over budget
While the sugar sector deamanded more protection to save the industry, farmers dubbed the Maharashtra government's budget as anti-farmer.
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Bengal finalises blueprint to boost farm production
The West Bengal Government has finalised the blueprint of an alternative agricultural policy, the hallmarks of which are to increase agricultural production in a sustainable manner while setting up
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Taking farmers up the garden path
In the latest budget, the Finance Minister seems to have been ill-advised in as much as agriculture is concerned. By aggressively promoting the cause of horticulture and floriculture, he may
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Centre alerts 16 states on sugarcane pest
The Union Agriculture Ministry has alerted 16 sugarcane-growing states on the outbreak of pest on sugarcane crops and to take intensive monitoring measures down to the village level. The ministry's
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Powdery mildew disease may affect mango crop in Bidar
With the rain gods playing truant, the farmers in Bidar district in Karnataka who had lost most of thier other crops, had pinned their hopes on a bumper mango yield. But even this dream seems to have
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Land reforms in reverse?
The Tamil Nadu government's wasteland development programme, which will pave the way for the entry of corporate giants into the State's agricultural sector, is likely to deprive thousands of farmers
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Govt. to frame law to regulate release of saline water in fields
The Goa government has decided to come out with an appropriate legislation to regulate the activity on the controversial question of allowing saline water in the Khazan
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Kalam to Punjab farmers
President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's advice to the farmers to adopt new methods of agriculture is indeed timely and correct. Punjab has long been the grain bowl of India and it has been the cradle of
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Factories bump rural Chinese
Last May, Song Defu's cornstalks were already reaching skyward when the local television station broadcast the news : From that day forward, village officials had announced, there would be no more
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States alerted against new sugarcane pest
The agriculture ministry has alerted 16 sugarcane growing states about the attack of a new pest, White Woolly Aphid, on sugarcane crop has asked them to undertake intensive monitoring to facilitate
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FAO readies appeal to guard Iraqi food output
The United Nations food agency will appeal soon for more than $100 million for emergency aid to safeguard Iraqi food production disrupted by war and combat the spread of animal diseases, an agency
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Krishna dips into middle class pockets to please farmers
In the backdrop of two consecutive drought years and with elections in the Karnataka State at striking distance, Chief Minister S M Krishna in his budget proposals for 2003-04 announced a slew of
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Farm mechanisation wakes up in State
If the agriculture department has its way, the purr of contented machines would soon replace the sweet sound of good old harvest songs in the Kerala State's paddy fields. In an effort to liven up the
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Sowing seeds of hospitality the organic way
Under the guidance of the Casino Group, about 520 tribal families (350 families in Mannankudy and 170 in Paliyakkudy, Kerala) are growing organic pepper in about 150 hectares of land. The produce is
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Southern Africa ponders safety of gene-altered crops
Gene-altered crops pose a more immediate risk to the environment than to humans, says a study conducted by southern African countries where a debate has raged over the safety of biotech food aid.
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Farmers rally rejects new WTO agreement
Hundreds of farmers in Pakistan and their rights organisations have outrightly rejected the new World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement, terming it as inhuman facilitating unceremonious demise of
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Maralinga site finally clean
A report into the five-year, $108 million clean-up of South Australia's Maralinga lands, poisoned by British atomic tests 50 years ago, has hailed the rehabilitation of the land a success, despite
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Greenpeace activists protest
A group of Greenpeace activists who chained them selves to the pillars and walls of multinational Monsanto company's office in Banglore removed by the police after sawing of their chains. They were