Submissions by DGM Project Punjab Mandi Board in the matter of Kapil Dev & Others Vs State of Punjab & Others dated January 14, 2025. All possible efforts were being made by the Punjab Mandi Board to comply with the NGT guidelines and to dispose of the vegetable waste of …
The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to set up a taskforce to keep tabs on the markets and to monitor prices of vegetables. “State government officials will monitor the wholesale and retail markets daily and inform the taskforce about hike in prices and hoarding of vegetables,” the Home Secretary, …
The BT brinjal case just got murkier. Government’s National Biodiversity Authority has decided to take legal action against Mayhco and Monsanto for using Indian varieties of the vegetable without mandatory permissions. The authority, meant to govern use of Indian genetic resources by business and research groups, decided in its meeting …
Ban imposed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) government on mining of raw phosphate has created fear of phosphate fertilisers' shortage in the country, which will increase economic burden on the growers who are already facing severe hardships due to day-by-day increasing prices of the agricultural inputs. This was claimed by …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced on Wednesday that it required $96 million for its early recovery programme to support an additional 430,000 farming households in 14 flood-hit districts of Pakistan over the next two years. Despite some successes, much remains to be done to restore rural livelihoods …
The importance of organic agriculture is increasing in eastern hill districts, all for better health and healthier environment. Three VDCs of Dhankuta, Sankhuwasabha and Terhathum have started off-season organic vegetable farming. Phulek of Tehrathum, Marekatahare of Dhankuta and Tamaphok of Sankhuwasabha are gloating at the start of organic farming by …
New Delhi: The Central and state governments on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that tests ordered by them on vegetables showed permissible levels of pesticides in them. Submitting their reports before a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, both the governments also stated that …
The Union Government on Wednesday submitted before the Delhi High Court that there was no need to panic over presence of pesticide residue in vegetables and fruits sold in the Capital as no banned pesticide was found in them during the laboratory test of samples of the two items lifted …
Genetically engineered tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) with the ability to synthesize glycinebetaine was generated by introducing the codA gene encoding choline oxidase from Arthrobacter globiformis. Integration of the codA gene in transgenic tomato plants was verified by PCR analysis and DNA blot hybridization. Transgenic expression of gene was verified by RT-PCR …
IT IS a case of deadly food poisoning. Caused by a new strain of Escherichia coli bacterium, the outbreak has sickened over 2,000 people in the EU in the past month. At least 25 succumbed to the disease in Germany, the epicentre of the outbreak; more than 600 were hospitalised …
The French authorities said Sunday that the latest outbreak of a deadly strain of E. coli in Europe appeared to be isolated, even as European Union officials discussed wider action to restrict sales of bean sprouts, the suspected cause of the outbreak. Seven patients remained hospitalized Sunday, said V
The Health Ministry has revealed that the strain of E-coli found in public water tanks in Addu City and those recently found in vegetables in Europe are two completely different strains.
Health authorities groped in the dark in search of the source of the E coli infection with suspicions about bean sprouts being a potential carrier yet to be substantiated, as the death toll in Germany
The German government came under increased criticism on Tuesday at home and abroad, accused of mismanaging the crisis surrounding an E. coli outbreak that has killed more than 20 people. German officials, however, reported a slight fall in the rate of newly reported infections.
The European Commission said Tuesday it will ask EU states to release 150 million euros in aid to European vegetable producers whose sales have been decimated by a deadly bacteria outbreak. European agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos also urged German authorities to quickly find the source of the lethal strain of …
Cucumbers may be out of favour on earth, but a Japanese astronaut said on Monday that he plans to harvest the vegetable on board the International Space Station. Satoshi Furukawa is set to blast off on Wednesday for a half-year stint in orbit along with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and …
The area under organic farming is increasing in Punjab with more farmers adopting this method to grow vegetables, fruits and cereals. Officials of the Organic Farming Council of Punjab said they had registered farmers practicing organic farming on more than 5,000 acres in the state. The figure is likely to …
German agricultural authorities on Sunday identified locally grown bean sprouts as the likely cause of the deadly E coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and sickened over 2,200 others in Europe. The Lower Saxony agriculture ministry sent an alert on Sunday warning people to stop eating the sprouts, Ministry …
Geneva: Escherichia coli, a deadly foodborne bacteria, has infected over 1600 people in 11 European nations, including Germany and Spain, even as experts are working to find out the source of the malady. World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said
