Fake pesticides add to woes of farmers
For farmers like Gurbeer Singh of Bajewal village in Ferozpur district, it's raining woes. First, the cotton crop failed, and now the pesticides in the market are proving to be less than pure.
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Fruit bowl shrinks in Himachal
Solan, the fruit bowl of Himachal, may soon fall empty. The signs are ominous: The area under fruit cultivation has fallen from 12,000 hectares six years ago to 6,400 this year. With no market
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Jasmine growers in Kovai in dire straits
Jasmine growers in three blocks of the Coimbatore district are keeping their fingers crossed as the cost of production has exceeded the selling price. The three blocks, Karamadai, Periyanaicken
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Your poison may be my food'
A day after the Union Cabinet okayed the move to ban cow slaughter across the country, Kerala became the first state to oppose the proposed law, saying beef constituted nearly 40 per cent of the
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No beef in this law
This Bill could have been drafted by the VHP. In this parliamentary session, before the upcoming assembly polls in November, the government is set to shepherd legislation that proposes a nationwide
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Cow may become MP's state animal
The Madhya Pradesh Government is actively considering to declare cow as the "State animal". Revealing this during a function, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh said the related proposal was under
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Kerala Farmers' Venture Plans Diversification
The Nadukkara Agro Processing Company (NAPC), a Kerala-based farmers' venture, is in a diversification mode. The company is into manufacture of pineapple juice and concentrate under the brand
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Bovine Economics
Every now and then the Bharatiya Janata Party comes up with a policy announcement that reveals how embedded is the antediluvian thinking on economic and social issues within its ranks. Even as an
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Andhra Pradesh Bill soon on biofertiliser quality
The Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister V. Sobhanadreeswara Rao said that the state government would soon come up with a Biofertilisers Monitoring and Quality Control Bill on the lines of the
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Encroachment threatening Sonapur rubber project
The Bogipahar Rubber Plantation Association, Sonapur, Assam, said large-scale encroachment on the sprawling 1,000 bighas of land reserved for rubber plantation and establishment of the Rubber
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Legislating a diet
The proposed central legislation to ban cow slaughter has predictably kicked up a ruckus, with the governments of Kerala, West Bengal and Meghalaya indicating their unhappiness at such a move. Of
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Lands for plantation workers
In a bid to improve the living conditions of the country's plantation sector the Government has decided to grant land to plantation workers living in linerooms. Accordingly, state land in all
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China to help develop agricultural sector
The Chinese government has pledged its fullest support to develop and restructure Sri Lanka's agricultural sector when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met the Chinese Agricultural Minister Du
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Experts for effective laws against substandard seeds
Seeds experts in Inaruwa (Nepal) have pointed out the need for effective laws to check and take action against the illegal traders involved in the trade of substandard seeds from across the porous
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Farmers: New Gurgaon only at price we set
The ambitious New Gurgaon project to expand the Millennium City has run into controversy with farmers and panchayats opposing the land acquisition over compensation. The New Gurgaon project is worth
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The first harvest on their own turf
Work on the the 5 km long stone wall which surrounds the Kaimuriya (Panna), village in Madhya Pradesh began last November, the result of one of the few poverty alleviation programmes that has
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Bill on cow slaughter covers bulls too
The Prevention of Cruelty to Cows Bill, 2003, proposed to be tabled during the current monsoon session of Parliament, seeks to impose a nation-wide ban on the slaughter of not just cows, but the
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Court suspends GM soya ban
A Brazilian federal tribunal said it suspended a long-standing ban on the sale of Monsanto's genetically modified Roundup Ready soyabeans in the world's No 2 soya producer. The Federal Judge, Selene
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Canada Set to Sharply Increase Mad Cow Testing
Canada is prepared to dramatically increase the number of cattle it tests for mad cow disease to prove that a single sick animal found in May was an isolated case, a government official said.
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Farmers' agitation turns violent
Farmers' agitation against the hike in power tariff turned violent in Central and South Gujarat after the protesting farmers flouted prohibitory orders and confronted police. At least 1,000 farmers