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 …
Agriculture scientists have opined that if just 10 per cent farming in the country is turned organic, it will lead to net saving of about Rs 25,000 crore in the country. The saving will be in terms of savings on farm inputs like fertilisers and pesticides and subsidies given on …
AT A time when the world is pushing for organic farming, the US is advocating the no-till method. Tilling, a process that turns soil inside out, helps develop a good seed bed while destroying weeds, insects and microbes. Organic farming requires land to be tilled to control weeds and pests …
A mango that resembles an apple or smells like grapefruit. A mango that shrinks, but does not rot. But for the conservation initiative of a farmer in Karnataka’s Mandya district, such fruits would have been part of folklore. “These trees bear Tipu Sultan’s mangoes,” says Syed Ghani Khan of Kirgaval …
The Kisan Call Centre has redressed problems of about four lakh farmers so far. During the last 31 months, the Kisan Call Centre has given agriculture-related information to three lakh 92 thousand 654 farmers and redressed the difficulties of two lakh 15 thousand 393 agriculturists. Information about mandi rates and …
Irate farmers blocked the DabwaFarmers block highway over Bt cotton seedli national highway against the unavailability of Bt cotton seed at the authorised outlets of a reputed seed manufacturing company. The farmers alleged that an artificial shortage of the seed was being created to sell it on the black market. …
Ahead of the first meeting of an expert committee of scientists to determine the kind of tests to be conducted on genetically-modified brinjal, commonly known as Bt brinjal, a prominent member of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has resigned from the panel. The resignation of P Anand Kumar comes …
Organic farming is gaining wide attention among farmers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and agricultural scientists because it minimizes dependence on chemical inputs like fetilizers, pesticides and other agro-chemicals and safeguards and improves the quality of resources and the environment.
What’s really in your cuppa? - A special investigation into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar. http://files.theecologist.org/Pdfs/Whats_in_your_cuppa.pdf
The Rs 85-crore Apple Rejuvenation Project is being seen as a great opportunity to promote organic orchards in the hill state. While a large number of farmers are switching over to organic farming, only a few progressive fruit growers have shown interest in it. However, a leading orchardist Gopal Mehta, …
Chandigarh Haryana government has drawn up a new scheme to promote organic farming by adopting good agricultural practices and minimising the use of pesticides in the state and it has earmarked R1 crore for its implementation during 2011-12. While stating this a spokesman of horticulture department said that 10,000 hectares …
Jairam intervenes after Nitish tells him that he is opposed to such trials Even as the moratorium on commercialisation of Bt brinjal stands, Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) to immediately withdraw its permission to Monsanto for field trials of Bt …
A workshop on "State level programme of capacity building and strengthening of vermi compositing units in university and colleges through solid waste management training programme" was held at MKP Inter College in Dehradun on Friday. The workshop was supported by Uttarakhand Science, Education and Research Center (USERC) and Uttarakhand Environmental …
Food security and organic farming can go hand in hand. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today gave a green signal to efforts under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture to promote green manuring and organic farming while talking about bringing in the Food Securtiy Act this year, settling the debate …
Karnataka has taken a lead initiative in developing sustainable agribusiness through this ‘Integrated Agribusiness Development Policy’ covering agriculture and allied sectors (like horticulture, fisheries, animal husbandry, sericulture and food processing) both in infrastructure and industrial segments on an end to end concept. This agribusiness policy aims to create an enabling …
Food security and organic farming can go hand in hand. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today gave a green signal to efforts under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture to promote green manuring and organic farming while talking about bringing in the Food Securtiy Act this year, settling the debate …
Rattled by soaring food prices and falling farm productivity, the FM has announced a slew of measures to boost the farm sector and vowed to deepen the process of attracting more private investment in agriculture and agro-processing. He announced an increase in bank lending for farm sector as well as …
Farming like any profession requires dedication, understanding, constant learning and application of new ideas and above all a desire to view it as a part of the greater ecosystem. Here is a case of a young farmer who has nurtured his farm with utmost care and sensitivity to the environment.
Only when farming is based upon "natural principles" can it be truly sustainable. Ecological farming is based on nurturing and nourishing the soils. Emphasizing soil conservation and building up organic matter are key to maintain these natural ecological balances in crop ecosystems. Mojo plantation is one such attempt.
