War over water
Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat
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BRAZIL
Government inspectors in Brazil are burning fields and seizing sacks of bio-engineered soybean seeds. Brazil is yet to approve the cultivation of these beans and has thus emerged as the world's
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MORE CASH CROPS
More and more farmers are slowly getting attracted towards cash crops instead of traditional paddy, maize and wheat. Farmers in Nepal's Nuwakot district now grow vegetables in their kitchen
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In defence of ostrich farming
Promoting ostrich and emu farming in India s drought prone districts could be a boon to farmers
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Protecting knowledge
The Plant Varieties and Farmers Protection Bill is to be tabled in Parliament
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When ducks get to work
Employing ducks in the paddy field heralds an era of prosperity for farmers in Japan, and in time worldwide
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Restoring the past
A civil engineer revives an age old system of farmers managing irrigation tanks in Tamil Nadu
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Compensation demanded
several political parties have demanded that south Haryana should be declared "drought-hit' and have asked for adequate compensation to the affected farmers for the loss incurred due to water
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Written in blood
The police firing on helpless farmers in Madhya Pradesh was one of the most grisly incidents in recent times. But the tragedy was precipitated by the apathy of the Union government
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Scent of good business
Herbs spell commercial success for villages in Jowahar Valley
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china
Li-Yuxing has been looking at the skies in despair. He is one of the many farmers of northeast China's Shandong and Henan provinces that produce about half of China's winter wheat. At the time when
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Cashing in on Kyoto
american farmers can survive and possibly make money off the Kyoto global climate change treaty if market-based incentives are included in a final agreement, a study by the us department
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Batting the pests out
Farmers have a largely unappre ciated friend. It is the Bat. At the Annual Walnut Research Con ference in Bodega Bay, California, USA, researchers said that bats help to keep the skies above farms
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Operation pest guard
Integrated pest management treatments come to the rescue of cotton farmers
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Farmers panic
soil erosion due to the fast-flowing Ravi river currents has created panic among the farmers in the Makaura Ferri and Bharial Bulge areas of Gurdaspur district in Punjab. As many as 648 hectares
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Super high yield
Even though farmers all over the world fear that grain yields are plateauing, Yuan Longping, the director of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre in Hunan Province, China says
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Water cooperatives
the Karnataka government has decided to sell water for agricultural use through cooperatives. The move is being seen as a measure to facilitate optimum use of water resources and is also a step
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Farmer s right
A new draft of the Union for Protection of New Plants Varieties protects the rights of the farmers
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PROTEST AGAINST POWER
Nuraicholai, previously a quiet coastal village in Sri Lanka, inhabited by mostly Roman Catholics and Muslims farmers and fisherfolk, has become hot bed of protest. The villagers are opposing
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Farmer s bible
An ancient manual from Kerala could offer solutions to modern agricultural problems