Innovation scores over limited natural resources
The newly born districts of Seraikela Kharsawan came into being in 2001, six months after the creation of Jharkhand. The district is known for its famous Chhau dance and also the Aditya Industrial
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Bio-pesticides: An opinion, but...
Figures with the Indian council of Agricultural research (ICAR) indicate that pesticide use was down from about 60,000 metric tonnes of technical grade material in 1990 to about 43,000 metric tonnes
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It's raining suicides here
Karnataka may be in the forefront of the information technology sector, but farmers in the state have been dying in dozens every week for the past few weeks. According to official estimates, there
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Uttaranchal for pvt cos in agri business
The Uttaranchal Government is seeking active participation from private enterprises, NGOs and research institutes in agribusiness to boost the state's economy. To help business in the region, the
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India Inc Taps European Bodies On Sustainable Farming, Exports
Indian industry, with a view to boost exports to the European Union, the US, Japan and other developed countries, has decided to directly cater to customers' choice in these countries as regards the
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Cow slaughter ban: CLE convenes meet
WITH the prospects of a nation-wide ban on slaughter of cow and its progeny looming large, the Council for Leather Exports (CLE) is convening a meeting to take stock of the situation. "Besides
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States seek funds for crop switch
Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have sought financial assistance from the Centre to encourage farmers to shift a creage from staple cereals to other
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Lok Sabha passes demand for grants
The Lok Sabha today passed the supplementary demands for grants for Rs 8,518.93 crore. This includes Rs 607.19 crore for the Agriculture Ministry for making payments to sugarcane
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Haryana to increase area under oilseed in kharif
Haryana has introduced an action plan on crop diversification to increase the area under oilseed from 12,000 hectare to 45,000 during current kharif
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CTRI develops disease-resistant varieties
The Central Tobacco research Institute at Hunsur has developed pipeline crop varieties to deal with fungal diseases fusarium wilt and brown spot afflicting the tobacco leaf in the Karnataka Light
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Maize replaces paddy as main crop in Shikaripur taluk
Green paddy tracts and constant rain are familiar scenes at Malnad, specially during the months of Shravana. But, not so this time. The paddy tracts are almost non-existent, while the tanks and lakes
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No initiative on development of pasture land
Despite constituting a major development intervention, pasture land has hardly been treated as an issue of concern in drought management across Rajasthan. No initiative was taken during the past four
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Precision farming
In recent years, the concept of precision farming based on a comprehensive system designed to organise agricultural production through the use of state of the art technological tools including GPS
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Farmers complain of difficulties in maintaining small tanks
The Farmer Organization in the Anuradhapura district complained that the funds allocated for repair ing small tanks made to farmer organizations by the Irrigation Department are reduced annually, and
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US escalates GM food row with Europe
Europe's dispute with America over genetically modified food escalated yesterday after Washington asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to force the EU to lift its five-year-old ban on new GM food
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Monsanto vs DuPont in cotton fields
In the cotton fields of India, the biggest slugfestnow is between the two US corporates - Monsanto with BT cotton, and DuPont with leading pesticide brand Avaunt. The war is fundamentally about
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Organic crop centre to be set up in Ghaziabad
To tap the $26 billion global organic farm products market, the central government has decided to set up a national institute of organic farming as part of the country-wide programme taken up in
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Is government helping farmers?
India is conducting a two phased study on the economic status of farmers to gauge the impact of government policies and programmes during the last 50 years. For the first phase, titled - "State of
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Cow slaughter ban feared to bring down leather exports by $700 m
Leather exports may drop by $700 million if the Centre goes ahead with the cow slaughter ban, the Chairman of the Council for Leather Exports, Mr S.S. Kumar, has said. He told presspersons after the
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Relief package for farmers soon: Krishna
The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, has said that the Government will announce a comprehensive relief package for the benefit of the drought-affected farmers