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 …
New Delhi: Taking suo motu cognizance of a Sunday TOI report showing alarming levels of toxicity in vegetables and fruits in India, a concerned Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the Delhi and central government to respond. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan converted the …
Rampant use of banned pesticides in fruits and vegetables, which continues to put at risk the life of the common man, forced the Delhi high court to take suo motu cognisance over the matter after going through a media report. A division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak …
A paper on giving away Indian agriculture on a platter to Monsanto through public-private partnerships. This brief paper on "Monsanto-ising Indian Agriculture" is seeking to throw light on the nature of this profiteering corporation from experiences from its operations the world over, on its operations in India and then focuses …
Prospective cohort studies have shown that high fruit and vegetable consumption is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD). Whether food processing affects this association is unknown. Therefore, we quantified the association of fruit and vegetable consumption with 10-year CHD incidence in a population-based study in the Netherlands and the …
COIMBATORE: Vegetable cultivation in India is hampered by pests and diseases which cause a total loss of Rs.1,40,000 crore worth of food crops. With a targeted production level of 170 million tonnes of vegetables by 2025, the present productivity has to be stepped up substantially, P. Murugesa Boopathi, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil …
Due to hard work and help from the state government's Horticulture Department, the life of a medium category farmer Tularam Patel has completely changed. Tularam, a resident of village Mohgaon Kalan in Seoni district, had only 1.20 hectares of land. He used to grow wheat on this land but had …
For several decades, a diverse literature has claimed that urban agriculture has the potential for hunger and poverty alleviation. This article reviews empirical data from equatorial Africa that touch on this assertion, updating the work on the subject published in the mid-1990s. Research, largely from East Africa but also including …
Seasonality of vegetables poses problems for both the consumers and the producers. And add to this problem of the changing climate pattern which makes food security or more precisely nutrient security a major concern worldwide. Advanced greenhouse technologies like vertical farming, hydroponics, aeroponics have been devised for the purpose. The …
New Delhi: The National Academy of Medical Sciences has distanced itself from the controversial pro-Bt brinjal report that it had co-authored with five other premier national science academies. It also pushed for a fresh report with scientific rigour and not just a reiteration of the existing report with referencing of …
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate a two-day symposium, training and exhibition on September 14 at Bhopal, which will be held to give a fillip to protected cultivation in Madhya Pradesh. The function will be presided over by Horticulture Minister Shri Kailash Vijayvargiya. The function based on greenhouse/polyhouse …
An overwhelming 86.7 percent of the farmers use medium to high chemical fertilizers like urea, triple super phosphate (TSP), Muriate of Potash (MP), Zinc and Sulpur for cultivation of vegetables, according to a recent study. The study revealed that farmers in the study areas mainly used urea, TSP, MP, Zinc …
Although quite a number of experiences with community supported agriculture (CSA) and box schemes in Europe and the United States have been documented, there are not so many examples from the South. Abalimi/Harvest of Hope is a special case even in the South, as it is a social enterprise that …
The government is planning to take up a three-year project involving Taka 10 crore to boost the production of quality vegetables in the country. The project has been proposed with a view to increasing export market of vegetable products alongside meeting local demand for perishable items. Sources in the Ministry …
In Vietnam, urban agriculture still represents a substantial share of food supply and employment. Its contribution to the food needs of the entire population of Hanoi was estimated at 44 per cent in 2002 (Mai et al., 2004). In the same year, over 70 per cent of leafy vegetables originated …
In this second version of the Safe Food Guide, Greenpeace reassesses the scenario in India with respect to the use of genetically modified organisms, consumer attitudes towards GMOs and behaviour of popular food brands. In 2010, in consumer opinion poll conducted by GfK Mode, over half of the citizens questioned …
These Chemicals Can Cause Abnormalities, Kidney Failure, Brain Damage Durgesh Nandan Jha | TNN New Delhi: It is time to get careful while consuming fruits or vegetables. The lush and leafy green cabbage and the
