The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Karnal: Dr Gorakh Singh, Commissioner (Horticulture), Union Agriculture Ministry, today stressed the need to adopt the latest farm techniques in horticulture to increase production as well as productivity, and said India had the potential to surpass China in this sector. Inaugurating a two-day seminar-cum-exhibition organised by Shalaroo (Karnal) centre of …
The expert committee set up under the chairmanship of Prof. A Vaidyanathan to suggest ways to improve agricultural statistics has called for using remote sensing and restructuring the data collectionmachinery. In its interim report, the expert committee has recommended setting up of the National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) to deal …
About 1,000 farmers from across the State will be trained as 'plant doctors' at a three-day training beginning Thursday, in Chitradurga. The programme, funded by the Agriculture Department and the Bio-control Research Laboratories (BCRL) and supported by the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), aims to create a pool of …
VILLUPURAM: Uzhavar Mandrams have become a mechanism for farmers to access modern agricultural technology to increase yield and improve their standard of living, according to Collector R. Palanisamy. Addressing a Farmers' Day meeting held at Pidagam near here on Friday, he said thanks to the initiative taken by the National …
An intensive scheme has been taken up to bring some 1.50 lakh hectares of land under IRRI-Boro cultivation in 11 upazilas of the district with an output target of 5.62 lakh mts rice. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said of the total, some 15,155 hectares will be brought under …
With a view to improving the life of women farmers in the State and bringing consistency in them, arrangements have been made in all districts to provide training to the women farmers which would help them choose farming technique with lesser cost, to understand and also for adopting it. A …
KOHIMA, Dec 15: The Minister for the Development of the North-Eastern Region (DoNER) BK Handique today called upon the policy planners and farmers of the Northeast to adopt fusion of traditional practices and modern technologies to make agriculture sustainable in the region. Handique pointed out that the agricultural practices continued …
Nayan Dave | TNN Ahmedabad: In order to promote the agro-processing industry in the state and encourage global brands to cultivate tailor-made crops suitable to their industries, the Gujarat government will allow lease agreement of farmland. Despite the fact the state government has been encouraging contract farming for over five …
Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where information gaps exist, despite …
Approach to agriculture in Orissa is all set for a radical change very soon. The moribund agri extension services will get a new lease of life as the Ministry of Agriculture has decided to introduce some innovative policy shifts on the concept of
This study presents the patterns and determinants of agricultural systems of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong, and modeling of food security and environmental degradation, and climate change impacts. Multivariate analysis based on multi-stage stratified sampling shows that the observed 18 variables can be explained by 6 principal components, which explain …
Looking to scale up sourcing of agricultural products from India, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores said on Tuesday that its joint venture with the Bharti group will rope in 35,000 farmers by 2015 to its supply chain. "We are already making a contribution to India's agricultural sector by working …
The basic purpose of this manual is to provide the users of data/information on Agricultural Prices and Marketing with a ready?to?use reference guide on methodological aspects of Agricultural Prices and Marketing that facilitate international comparison and help in aggregation of statistics needed to derive meaningful conclusions. Another purpose of this …
Tango with nature India has been using lakes, ponds and baolis (step wells) since ancient times ('What monsoon means', July 16-31, 2010). Delhi was once replete with water bodies. In the past 50 years, government agencies started disbanding natural ponds, lakes and baolis, declaring their water untested, and therefore, unfit …
The farmers in Kurigram have started the cultivation of short duration rice during the rainy season. Farmers and farm labourers are now busy with preparing land and planting seedlings in their field ignoring heavy showers of rain. The target of cultivation of short duration rice in five districts of Greater …
To feed the world without further damaging the planet, Jeffrey Sachs and 24 food-system experts call for a global data collection and dissemination network to track the myriad impacts of different farming practices.
