Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The Haryana government is yet to notify the crop insurance scheme for the 2014-15 rabi season, despite claiming itself to be a farmer-friendly government. The state had announced Rs 12,000 per acre as crop loss in the 2014-15 season, and publicised it as the highest, to help farmers tide over …
If the Maharashtra government is to be believed, only three farmers have committed suicide in the State because of crop failure due to unseasonal rain and hailstorms since January. The government, however, acknowledges that 598 more farmers have taken their own lives during the period, but is unaware of the …
Farmers facing the vagaries of weather for the past two weeks are on tenterhooks as the Met office has predicted heavy rain and thunderstorm, accompanied with hailstorm in mid and lower hills of Himachal over the next 100 hours. Mid and lower hills suffered extensive damage to rabi crops and …
A day after India officially informed the Paris-based Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) of an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, the Union agriculture ministry directed the state to intensify surveillance to monitor further spread of the virus. Uttar Pradesh has …
SURATGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the Soil Health Cards (SHC) Scheme at Suratgarh in Sriganganagar district. "Take care of the health of your motherland. This is as important as saving the girl child and today, in Suratgarh, I launch the Soil Health Card Scheme with the same …
Scheme Aims To Educate Farmers To Help Boost Yield A centrally-sponsored nationwide `soil health card' scheme will be finally rolled out from Suratgarh in Ganganagar district of Rajasthan on February 19. The card, carrying cropwise recommendations of nutrientsfertilizers required for farms of different soil types, will make it possible for …
Maharashtra government has been warned of decline in food grain production in the year 2014-15 because of prolonged drought situation in some parts of state. The state focus paper (2015-16) of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development discussed with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis warns, “There will be a …
In line with the Narendra Modi-led government’s moves to allow the states more autonomy in planning their schemes, the Centre has agreed to the suggestions of a few state governments to have their own plan to protect farmers’ incomes from adverse circumstances. While the Centre will soon unveil a Centrally-sponsored …
About 75 per cent of the cultivable land in the country has been adversely affected by excessive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Commissioner in the Union Ministry of Agriculture Dr JS Sandhu said 114 million hectares of cultivable land out of total 142 million hectares had high levels of …
Centre Holds State Govts Responsible Maharashtra continues to face the challenge of dealing with rising cases of farmer suicides. It has reported 204 such suicides in the first four months of the year — which is nearly half of what the state had reported in the entire year in 2013. …
Abuja — In his efforts to modernise agriculture, President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday launched the National Schools Agriculture Programme (NSAP). When fully on steam, it will ensure the building of technical and entrepreneurship skills in the students with a view to running agriculture as a business. It will also equip …
The Chinese government is trying to convince Zhou Guangxiu that the corn in the congee she wants to feed her son is safe. That may not be easy. Zhou, the owner of a recycling business in the northeast coastal city of Weihai, said one source of her concern was an …
With an aim to encourage farmers to give up tobacco farming without any economic loss, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan has written to the agriculture and commerce ministers regarding developing a scheme to lure away growers from tobacco. The minister has asked both the ministries for a brainstorming/consultation of experts …
After declaring drought in 44 of Uttar Pradesh’s 75 districts, the Samajwadi Party government on Thursday raised a demand for Central assistance of Rs 6138.42 crore to compensate affected farmers. Following a meeting with a team of officials from the Union agriculture ministry, UP chief secretary Alok Ranjan said UP …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre to finalise the national policy for controlling and preventing pollution resulting from burning of agricultural waste in open fields. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar also directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to state what directions it proposes to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vikrant Kumar Tongad Vs. Environment Pollution Authority & Ors. dated 25/09/2014 regarding controlling and preventing the pollution arising from crop burning. The Tribunal has asked the Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Additional Secretary, MoEF and the Chairman, Central Pollution Control …
The National Green Tribunal has expressed regret for not involving the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in finalising the national policy for controlling and preventing pollution resulting from burning of agricultural remnants in open fields. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Additional Secretary of Ministry of …
Battling deficient rains, Punjab and Haryana farmers today sought Rs 500 per quintal bonus on paddy from Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, besides direct payment of drought relief sought by the two state governments. A memorandum submitted by the Bharti Kisan Union demanded a review of the MSP of paddy …
The commercial cultivation of genetically modified rice in China may still be far in the future as the safety certificates of two varieties of GM rice have expired and it is unknown if they have been extended. The expiration of the certificates came only days after a report that GM …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed all concerned of the Agriculture Ministry to be more active to implement every development project on time by maintaining the quality. She said that the budget of Agriculture Ministry in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) is being enhanced in every fiscal year and Taka …
