Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
CHANDIGARH: Eminent citizens, farmers and environmental activists on Friday threatened to launch a sustained agitation to oppose entry of BT Maize crop into Punjab and prevent any attempt to jeopardise the country's food sovereignty. This was announced at a press conference organised in response to reports that Chief Minister Parkash …
LAHORE (June 17 2010): Institute for Agriculture Research for Maize, Yousafwala (Sahiwal) has developed two hybrid varieties of maize namely FH-810, Yousafwala Hybrid and two synthetic varieties Pearl and MMRI-Yellow. The scientists of the institutes have sent these newly developed varieties to the Punjab Seed Council (PSC) for approval, said …
It was May 2009. S Abdul Rahman at Cumbam village in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district was worried about his coconut plantations. The palm trees were drying at the roots, leaflets were bending and the older leaves were completely dry. These were dreaded symptoms he knew well. Neighbouring farms were also …
One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to …
The release of 13 new crop varieties including four high-yielding vegetable crops and two farm implements marked the annual Farmers' Day celebrations at the Farm Varsity here. The new crop varieties include TNAU Rice
WITH the introduction of short-term, high-yielding varieties of cereal and oil-seed crops, the cropping intensity has now reached almost 300 per cent in Punjab. Moreover, the intensive use of chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides involve greater use of scarce groundwater resources. The water table has gone down alarmingly resulting in …
''Farmers should adopt modern farming methods to get good yield and thus improve their economic condition,'' said MLA M P Appacchuranjan. Speaking after inaugurating taluk-level Krishi mahotsava organised jointly by Kodagu Zilla Panchayat in association with Agriculture department, taluk panchayat and other organisations at Koodige on Tuesday, he said
Brussels: The European Union is to radically overhaul its approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops from next month, opening the way to large-scale GM cultivation in Europe, EU sources said on Friday. With most Europeans showing no appetite for GM produce in food, EU politicians have approved just two …
This study presents foliar application effect of Kappaphycus alvarezii (5-15%) extract on yield and seed quality of greengram at flowering stage. Application of K. alvarezii (conc. 10.0%) significantly increased seed yield (30.11%) compared to control,due to increase in yield of pods, weight of pods as well as seed yield per …
A field experiment was conducted during 2002-03 and 2003-04 at Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana to study the possible options for diversification of existing rice-wheat cropping system.
The potential of biotechnology to contribute to the reduction of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Africa can only be realised with the presence of biosafety legislation. Recently, Kenya enacted the Biosafety Act 2008 after more than six years of stakeholder engagement with farmers, academicians, researchers, members of the community, funders, …
An experiment was conducted at Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal during March-July 2008 to explore the impact of ambient ozone on crop growth and yield. Mungbean cultivar "Pratikshya" was used as a test crop for the study. Original Source
If any crop needs an evolutionary boost, it's rice. Nearly half of humanity relies on the stuff, and yields must increase more than 50 per cent by 2050 to feed growing demand, so the discovery of a gene mutation that can bump up yields by a full 10 per cent …
Himanshu Bhatt | TNN Surat: Use of pruning and plastic mulching technique in mango farming have brought very encouraging results in the last few years for the farmers who export their produce to Gulf countries. Recipient of Sardar Patel Agriculture Research Award in 2009 from Fansa village in Valsad Rajesh …
Sandip Das New Delhi: India's bumper wheat production in the last few years has largely been attributed to favourable weather and significant rise in minimum support price, but a big factor also has been the virtual absence of any threatening crop disease, particularly the dreaded Ug99, commonly known as yellow …
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi May 28, 2010, 0:36 IST Monsanto licencees have earned over Rs 1,500 crore since 2002. A quiet but determined battle is being fought in the courts, and outside, by US agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, its Indian affiliates and seed lobbyists to free the prices of …
A one-day workshop on Bt Brinjal and Bt Crops organised by the Karnataka Biodiversity Board attracted none of the Government representatives except Principal Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry M Muniappa. The invites which included Minister for Ports, Inland Water Transport Public Works Department, Ecology and Environment, Krishna J Palemar and …
Seeds of high quality are necessary for a good crop. In this connection Gwalior-based Agriculture University is putting in important contribution by preparing nuclear seeds of wheat. Vice Chancellor of Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Agriculture University Dr. Vijay Singh Tomar has informed that Dr. KPS Malik has started preparation of wheat
