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 …
PM Unhappy With Public Spat Over Bt PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, who normally opts for the path of least resistance, decided to go along with the view that the introduction of Bt brinjal should wait till safety tests are completed and consensus developed on the crop. Mr Singh, who intervened …
Ensuring quality: Organic farmers will soon get certified by the Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department, which will help them get a good price. COIMBATORE: More than 50,000 acres across the State have been brought under organic certification programme, thanks to Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department's efforts. Tamil Nadu Government set …
WITH state governments, the Planning Commission and two agricultural universities tasked to conduct research on Bt brinjal cautioning the Centre against immediate commercial release of the GM crop, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take a middle-of-theroad approach. Mr Singh is meeting ministerial colleagues Sharad Pawar, Jairam Ramesh and …
This publication includes the proceedings of the 3 day meet on Save Western Ghats at the Keystone Campus, Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri from 18-20 February 2010. The purpose being to highlight the issues and challenges being faced by Western Ghats over decades in the light of its importance as an ecologically …
Days after Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh overruled experts to put on hold the release of Bt brinjal and said biotech research could not be left to the private sector, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that genetically modified crops could solve the country
EVEN as agriculture minister Sharad Pawar accepted that the last word on Bt Brinjal was that of environment minister Jairam Ramesh, he made a strong case for genetically modified crops. Arguing in favour of the GM crops, Mr Pawar said that it could solve the country
Pune The Maharashtra Organic Farming Federation (MOFF) has commended Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh for handling the controversial issues surrounding BT Brinjal in a "balanced manner". "He invited seed creators, scientists, consumers and farmers to come forth with opinions and came out without succumbing to any pressure. This …
Eminent scientist Dr PM Bhargava today flayed the current system of approval for genetically modified crops and said there was an immediate need for constitution of an independent national testing authority to carry out long-term health impact studies. Welcoming the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
New Delhi: Amid a raging controversy over allowing the commercial use of Bt brinjal, Congress has sided with environment minister Jairam Ramesh at the expense of science and technology minister Prithviraj Chavan. Asked about the different viewpoints within the government on the issue of the genetically modified vegetable, party spokesman …
Not Opposed To More Tests, But I Think Scientists Have Done A Thorough Job, Says Minister New Delhi: Minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan has strongly defended the tests conducted on Bt brinjal before it was declared as
NAGAPATTINAM: Organic farming is the way forward to battle the nature-induced and human-made vagaries of the tail-end of the Delta. This was reiterated at a one-day seminar on organic farming organised jointly by the Department of Agricuture and Krishi Vigyan Kendra at its premises here at Sikkal recently. Speaking on …
Jairam Ramesh, the Union minister for environment and forests, has agreed to put Bt brinjal on hold. I believe this is the right and only decision that he could have taken. The fact is that we are not talking about a new technology of genetic modification here. We are talking …
It is now 42 years since the term "Green Revolution" was coined by Dr William Gaud of the USA to describe advances in production arising from productivity improvement. Even in 1968 I had concluded that if farm ecology and economics go wrong, nothing else would go right in agriculture. I …
