Iffco launches e-kiosk for farmers
Farmers in Karnataka can now have agricultural market information literally at their fingertips, courtesy the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative (Iffco). The fertiliser co-operative has launched
Filters
- Agriculture
Search Results
-
-
Industry should invest in farm sector: pant
Industry needs to invest in the agriculture sector because lack of its synergy with farmers has been deterring the sector's growth, feels Planning Commission deputy chairman KC Pant. Addressing the
-
US, EU to bring hybrid formula on farm tariff cuts
The US and the EU will work on a "hybrid formula' for tariff reduction in agriculture and present it to the World Trade Organisation by August 11. This decision was taken at the mini-ministerial meet
-
Rights groups up in arms on wheat piracy
Environment and farmers' rights activists said if the Indian Government does not contest the Indian wheat hybrid patent granted to a multinational company in Europe, they would take up the challenge.
-
Bill moots five-year imprisonment for cow slaughter
The Centre is all set to provide for a law with a stringent five-year jail term for killing a cow. The Union Agricultural Ministry's draft Bill that seeks to ban cow slaughter is likely to be taken
-
Poor countries put demands to trade ministers
Trade mnisters from African, Caribbean and Pacific nations have called on members of the World Trade Organisation to focus on the demands of developing countries at a crucial meeting of WTO ministers
-
EU 's GM crop norms may affect global farm trade
The European Union is implementing new labelling, traceability and approval legislation for genetically-modified (GM) food, feed and ingredients
-
Politics of farm interest rates
In the context of the cap on farm loan interest rates announced by the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister, Sharad Joshi traces the history of the protection farmers in debt got even in
-
'Easier tobacco growing norms needed'
Appreciating the usefulness of the auction system in the interests of the Indian tobacco farmer, a section of merchant exporters of tobacco still favour further liberalisation to infuse healthy
-
Kerala takes steps for herbal 'biovalley'
The Kerala government has initiated steps on the recommendations of the Commisssion on WTO Concerns in Agriculture, headed by Dr M S Swaminathan. The Government constituted the Commission in 2001 to
-
Farmers launch national forum to popularise organic food
In order to kickstart a chemical-free food movement, over a 100 organic farmers from all over the country got together in Bangalore city to form the Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI).
-
NGOs to take up cudgels against Monsanto
The government is reluctant to challenge the patent rights recently acquired by Monsanto on crossbreeds of Indian wheat landrace,
-
Facing farmers' ire
Gujarat's farm leaders say the agricultural tariff hike, which puts a burden of Rs 600 crore on farmers, has been effected under pressure from the ADB. The BJP is bracing up to meet the challenge
-
KVK meet on new technology for sali cultivation
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Nazira organized the first farmers' training programme on modern technology of sali rice production recently at MC Club, Nazira. This is a unique achievement of the
-
USDA requires permits for industrial biotech crops
Biotech companies will have to obtain a federal permit before growing experimental plants engineered for industrial purposes like making paper, detergent and minerals, the U.S. Agriculture Department
-
Farmers are dying out
The steady decline of small farms in the UK is being accelerated by the sale of country land to townies who have no intention of cultivating it. Earlier this week, a 40-hectare farm on the Welsh
-
Govt ready with Bill to protect rights, of cows
Hardening its earlier stand and making it compulsory for all states to implement, the Centre is ready with a Bill prohibiting the sale of beef across the country, slapping jail terms and fines for
-
Locust threat in Rajasthan
An alert has been sounded in desert areas of western Rajasthan along border with Pakistan against threat of invasion by locusts. The widespread monsoon rains this year in western Rajasthan which
-
ICAR chief moots definite roadmap for food security
According to Dr Mangala Rai, Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India can attain the status of a developed nation through agricultural research. ''We need to develop a
-
Cheating on patent
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE)/Navdanya, which led the campaign that forced cancellation of the majority of claims on the Ricetec patent, have now launched a campaign