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 …
As part of their subsistent farming operations farmers in Himachal Pradesh have been traditionally dependent on organic ways of farming. Consequently, the farming communities in low hills, valleys and high mountains alike still maintain a rich pool of indigenous technological knowledge of organic agriculture practices. Under this backdrop, over the …
Mr Narendrabhai N. Limbasaya of Kotada Nayan village in Gujarat's Rajkot district has been growing cotton on 15 acres of land he owns for the last 7-8 years. Unlike in the previous years, he had to face problems this year due to unseasonal rain.
Something is stirring in paddy fields across India. New seeds, new crop management techniques and newly minted food security policies are about to hit the countryside. Not all of the changes that are being forged in Krishi Bhawan, headquarters of the Union agriculture ministry, in the top-flight research institutions across …
Jai Sri is a common greeting in the Koraput countryside these days. A Paraja tribal woman working in her fields, a passing motorcyclist driving through the rutted lanes, a teacher heading for his school, they all greet each other and visitors with a Jai Sri. It has nothing to do …
Experts discuss shrinking farmland, effects of pesticides at a seminar organised as part of Gandhi Utsav. Thiruvananthapuram: Agricultural scientists, farmers, doctors, environmentalists and bankers who participated in a seminar series organised here last week in connection with the ongoing Gandhi Utsav, highlighted the importance of organic farming as a sustainable …
Jorhat, Dec. 14: The agri-engineering department of Assam Agricultural University has designed a biogas plant which will address both the needs of renewable energy sources and organic farming in a more effective manner. The department has also produced fuel from poultry litter in the same plant but the process is …
ALAPPUZHA: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that since organic farming is slightly expensive, interested farmers will be extended support to experiment with zero budget natural farming, a pesticide-free method being advocated by Maharashtra-based environmentalist and farmer Subhash Palekar. Inaugurating a seven-day State-level training workshop on Zero Budget Natural Farming …
KOCHI: Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas has called upon the State Government to take efforts to encourage organic farming in the state. The government can use a good amount of the unutilised drought relief fund, granted by the Centre, for the purpose, he said after inaugurating …
Shishir Behera A cup of good tea in the morning is the perfect way to start a day, and if it is organic nothing like it. With people becoming health conscious by the day, demand for organic products is rising multi-fold every year. And its not just the organic tea, …
The new nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy policy provides implicit incentives to farmers to test soil samples regularly and get crop-wise recommended doses of nutrients, and offers prospective benefits from the agro-environmental management point of view. A study of six villages in the lower Bhavani Basin in Tamil Nadu reveals that despite …
This paper discusses the need to shift from chemical intensive agriculture to organic farming. The authors in their vision for a chemical-free agriculture also stress that organic agriculture is a way to achieve food security. The authors begin with the current crisis in Indian agriculture. Stating that though the Green …
With the view to promote organic farming practices to reduce the burden on Chemical Fertilizers, to ensure effective utilization of farm resources and to cater domestic and international growing Organic Food Market, a National Project on Organic Farming was launched during 10th Plan with an outlay of Rs.115.00 crores. The …
Mark Van Horn, director of the student farm at the University of California, is nearly lost as he walks through a yellow cloud of wild sunflowers around the edge of a field of tomatoes and sweet corn. REFINED TECHNIQUES The Swanton Berry Farm in California. Some strawberry farmers use
An apex committee headed by the Chief Minister, Mr Pawan Chamling, has been constituted to oversee the implementation of organic farming programmes in Sikkim. The other members of the committee are the Agriculture Minister, the Rural Development Minister, the Chief Secretary, the Development Commissioner, the Finance Secretary and the Agriculture …
It's fast catching on -- organic farm tourism is the latest value addition rural tourism has achieved across the globe THE ATTRACTIONS INCLUDE RUSTIC SELFCATERING COT- TAGES AND HOME-COOKED, ORGANIC FOOD The frescoed havelis of Nawalgarh, the native land of the Sekhawat Rajputs in Rajasthan, once drew tourists from France …
Carambolim Panchayat has decided to set up a Vermi Composting unit in the village. According to sources in panchayat, about 8,000 sq mtrs of land has been identified for setting up the unit in the jurisdiction of Carambolim Panchayat. The unit would be utilized only for composting garbage being collected …
Indronil Roychowdhury Kolkata: Retail marketing in agriculture may still be out of bounds in West Bengal but try bio-fertiliser, bio-seeds and organic fertiliser for investment
