Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay dated 05.11.2024 dated 16/12/2024. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled "The Last Feral Horses in India" appearing in Mongabay dated November …
Mangalore: The success of Bhoo Chetana in dry land cultivation has inspired the State Government to expand its reach to all the districts in the State and to include rain fed areas. Accordingly, in Dakshina Kannada district, the scheme will cover 5,100 hectare paddy field in the kharif season. Speaking …
The International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has released 735 highly-nutritious and drought-tolerant crop varieties developed using germplasm and breeding materials in 78 countries, including Andhra Pradesh in India, significantly contributing to increased income and better nutrition of resource-poor people in the dry land tropics. In Anantapur, where over …
Udaipur: President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said the country needed another Green Revolution as the population growth is set to increase on already scarce resources.
Hyderabad, Dec. 6: The city-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has launched a scheme to erase poverty by developing drylands. The Icrisat director-general, Dr William Dar, told mediapersons that the strategy was anchored on the concept of
Dryland farming has come to the rescue of drought-hit farmers of 22 villages in Gumla, courtesy agriculture scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Gumla, 150 km from Ranchi. Scientists are advocating dryland farming across Bishunpur, Ghaghra, Gumla, Kamdara and Sisai blocks, distributing seeds that grow well in uplands. Farmers …
Based on the traditional wisdom of the tree based farming systems followed since ages across the world, scientific community intervened to harness full benefits of agroforestry land use system and address global issues of land degradation and agricultural sustainability.
Land degradation is a serious menace to food security. Salinity-related land degradation is becoming a serious challenge to food and nutritional security in developing countries. Order vertisols has problem of salinity throughout the country. The vertisols and their associates cover nearly 257 m ha of the earth
Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government has decided to promote non-paddy crops in highlands while continuing with the emphasis on paddy cultivation as part of its strategy to usher in the second
BHUBANESWAR: Green revolution is imperative for Orissa. This is evident from the yield gap the State has with the national average, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. He was delivering inaugural address at a State-level workshop on
Vijay Jawandhia is a farmer in Vidarbha, the region which brought home to us the crisis that is compelling farmers to kill themselves. He is also a leader of farmers. Recently, he spoke of new challenges: "In my village we are hiring vehicles and bringing people from cities to work …
Afrequent traveller to rural parts of northern India will find something odd about the roadside sights on a ride from Jaipur to Jobner, especially during late March. On the fields flanking the nearly 50-km stretch, bundles of freshly cut wheat signal the harvest season. But instead of the golden ears …
There is one being-Indian-thing, which spans the urban-rural and the rich-poor divide: our annual watch and wait for the monsoon. It begins every year, without fail as heat climbs and the monsoon advances. The farmers wait desperately because they need the rain at the right time to sow their crops. …
In developing countries, 11% of arable land could be affected by climate change. Indeed, farmers are already facing the impact of climate change. The need of the hour, say Sreenath Dixit and B Venkateswarlu, is not to wait for global agreements on mitigating climate change but to act locally, intelligently …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) came into existence after the enactment of the Parliament Act 'National Rural Employment Guarantee Act' (2005) in September 2005. The primary objective of the scheme is to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult …
Sandip Das New Delhi: As Indian agriculture gets more and more impacted by changing weather patterns, which has become more acute in the last few years because of climate change, the ministry of agriculture through the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and state agricultural universities are working on district-specific …
Small farmers need credit and other supporting services for diverse activities which comprise a family’s livelihood strategy. Self Help Affinity Groups (SAGs) are the most appropriate institutions which provide the necessary space, resources and skills required by a poor family to develop a livelihood strategy. http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/india/2-finance-for-farming/marginal-and-small-farmers-require-freedom-and/at_download/article_pdf
“This is our palace,” says 60-year-old N Ravindranath Shetty, as he welcomes one to his home with a grin. The palace he refers to is a 240 square feet single-room house made of clay bricks, roofed with coconut thatch and tarpaulin. An incredulous stare elicits an explanation: “Since we moved …
