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 …
This new report by Oxfam International calls on governments and donor countries to prioritise investments in agriculture as a way of fighting poverty. It says that investing in agriculture will also help to ensure food security and mitigating climate change. Decades of faltering public commitment to investing in agriculture has …
University bans field trials THE Maharashtra agriculture university announced it would no longer allow field trials of GM food crops in its field at Kolhapur. The move came in the wake of a protest in March by hundreds of farmers and citizens against an open-air field test of GM corn …
Gene manipulation with bio-tech tools can address some challenges before agriculture, and we should have foolproof testing & approval processes Business Standard / New Delhi May 25, 2009, 0:55 IST Amidst unrelenting opposition from environmentalists and consumer activists, the gene-altered hybrid of a widely consumed vegetable, the brinjal or egg …
Direct Seeded Rice, on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season, is ready for large-scale cultivation GG OOD NEWS for growers who were contemplating giving up rice cultivation largely due to non-availability of labourers and scarcity of water. The Direct Seeded Rice (DSR), whose successful experiments were …
The farming community has urged the government to conduct district-wise yield survey to collect information on the varieties of seeds sown by the farmers. Khawja Muhammad Shoaib of Farmers Vision Forum said that many factors had combined to give a sizeable wheat crop, including reasonable procurement price announced by the …
BHUBANESWAR: Two new rice varieties - Swarna Sub-1 and IR.64 Sub-1 - developed by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, combining high-yield potential with high degree of tolerance to submergence, have proved as a boon for flood-prone area farmers of South Asia, including Orissa. Talking to this paper, Jafran Keshari …
Agri-experts have said that increased farming of jute could revive the past glory of the golden fibre to usher in a new era in the country's economy as well as save the environment and soil health. Because of its completely eco-friendly characters with quick rotting system, demand for jute has …
KHUMTAI: The lone Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) of Golaghat district situated in Khumtai is ready to serve farmers this monsoon season. Dr H C Baruah, programme co-ordinator of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, informed newspersons that his institution has taken an action plan to institute about 68 training programmes among agriculturists …
COIMBATORE: Biotech crops are poised for a second wave of strong adoption that will drive sustained global growth through the end of the second decade of commercialisation
The Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) has entered the production and distribution of hybrid rice seeds to provide them to farmers at reasonable prices, officials said yesterday. The move by the public sector entity, stakeholders observe, is expected to intensify competition in seed business dominated by private-sector players.
The Colorado State University (CSU) recently announced Dr Rajiv Khosla as the recipient of the Monfort professorship. The Monfort Family Foundation has established a programme in which it employs faculty at the CSU and announces two members as Monfort professors. Khosla will receive $75,000 each year to support teaching and …
'Bangla Moti'- a new variety of high- quality aromatic rice produced in Bangladesh for 'Polou', a local delicious dish of rice and meat boiled in butter will hit the market by 2012. The government has undertaken a project considering the demand for the aromatic rice among people of the country …
Speakers at a seminar here on Sunday said farmers in the country must switch to genetically modified cotton to obtain higher yields and better quality product. Titled
Mandi Ahmedgarh: In an effort to join the poll campaigns of their candidates, farmers of the area falling under the Sangrur and Ludhiana districts continue to burn wheat stubble in their fields. Despite warnings by environmentalists and farm scientists against the burning of stubble and the ban imposed by the …
Two usual objections are levelled against the proposal that organic agriculture can feed the world. Organic agriculture, opponents claim, gives low yields, and there isn
Speakers at a workshop here on Monday said that the media could play the most vital role in disseminating the latest agri-technologies to the farmers for ensuring the country's food security through increasing productions. The farmers should be provided with the latest information communication technology facilities everywhere to enable them …
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Minfa) Tuesday released the findings of the baseline survey on the National Programme for Food Security and Productivity Enhancement of Small Farmers, known as Crop Maximisation Project phase-II (CMP-II). During January to June 2008, WFP conducted …
Speaking at a seminar in Lahore the other day on "Challenges and started to experience food shortages. And experts say food scarcity is only going to get worse the world over in not-too-distant a future. Knowing that land is a finite resource, we must adopt timely measures to ensure our …
BHUBANESWAR: In a major achievement, the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology has developed a new rice variety that would not only enhance productivity but also has better resistance to pest infestations. Christened Ranidhan, the rice has been developed by scientists Dr Simanchal Sahu and Dr Swapan Kumar Tripathy at …
Experts here have said that jute has been regaining its past glory very fast now following alarming and huge adverse effects of synthetic fibres on the environment and ecology in recent decades everywhere in the world. They also said that because of its eco-friendly and quick rotting character, demand of …
