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 …
Fatehgarh Channa (Sangrur): Global warming cannot be fought by holding international summits in Copenhagen alone, but also by public participation at the grassroots level, feel students of Satya Bharti School here as they have joined hands with the village elders in making their village a role model for others to …
Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Develop-ment Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria has said that integrated efforts will be undertaken to ensure identity of Madhya Pradesh as an organic State after formulation of the new organic policy. Such provisions will be enshrined in the organic policy that will help marginal farmers to adopt organic …
A committee has been set up under Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria to formulate organic policy in Madhya Pradesh. The second meeting of the committee will be held on Friday, at Government Agriculture Area, Phanda near Bhopal. The committee comprises experts of subjects related to agriculture. The …
Agricultural practices, which add heavy metals to the soil, include indiscriminate use of fertilizers through chemical farming and plant protection chemicals. However organic farming is a production system to produce chemical free nutritious food of high quality. Organic farming is a production system, which avoids or largely excludes the use …
Agriculture is currently the most cost-effective, market-ready way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Scientific research is needed to determine which agricultural techniques, practices, and systems will achieve actual climate mitigation. The Farming Systems Trial offers an opportunity to examine the climate mitigation potentials of different existing agricultural systems. …
This paper assesses the capacity of organic and resource-conserving agriculture (ORCA) to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholders in Africa. Distinguishing among the different practices related to ORCA is sometimes difficult because
Cities have forgotten the amazing foods and cuisines they used to once enjoy. To remind them the Millet Network of India (MINI) and Kheti Virasat Mission organised the first ever exhibition of millets at the Press Club in Chandigarh called Bebe di Rasoi (Grandmother
This article draws on research the author carried out in Ghana and Burkina Faso to explore the impact of a transboundary water governance project on poor people
This document discusses the opportunities and constrains of carbon accounting for organic agriculture management in developed and developing countries. The aim of this document is to describe the potential of organic agriculture to sequester carbon and to meet the requirements of carbon accounting systems, including factors such as carbon permanence, …
Mumbai At a screening of a documentary on BT Brinjal, the genetically modified vegetable soon to be launched in India, an organic farmer from Rawala Village, Warud tehsil of Amravati district, revealed how BT cotton has left tracts of farmland in the agricultural village of Amravati infertile. Poison on Platter, …
BHUBANESWAR: If things go as planned, Orissa prisons may show the way in organic farming. In fact, the open air jail at Jamujhari, which boasts of 111 acre farm land, already is into organic farming. To give a boost to the initiatives, some top officials of the Agricultural and Processed …
AS INDIA debates over adopting genetically modified (GM) brinjal imported from the West and the issues surrounding this, Vadodara-based Science Ashram, supported by Gujarat Life Science (GLS), has developed a Twenty20 agri-bio inputs for the brinjal crop that not only improves productivity but busts the myth that brinjal cannot be …
Needed, a credible biotech regulatory regime FOR INDUSTRY & PEOPLE IN THE FACE-OFF BETWEEN PRO- AND ANTI-GM FOOD LOBBIES, THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. BLAME THE LACK OF A CREDIBLE REGULATORY REGIME. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A STATE OF-THE-ART LAB TO TEST BIOSAFETY AND OTHER PARAMETERS AND RELIES ON …
by Rachel Shields GM crops have a role to play in preventing mass starvation across the world caused by a combination of climate change and rapid population growth, a scientist has said. Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), called …
Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen. Nothing of the sort has happened yet. With huge debts taking the lives of many farmers in the district, and even …
Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department (TNOCD), led by Director of Organic Certification A. Karmugilan, conducted a surprise inspection of a 15-acre coconut farm at Mettulakshminaikkanpalayam, near Sulur village. M.A. Srinivasan, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police and the owner of the farm, said that for the last two-and-a-half …
N R Pura, Nov 17, DHNS Emphasis should be given to organic farming to yield more result from agriculture, said Sri Kshetra Dharmastala Rural Development Programme (SKDRDP) Executive Director Dr L H Manjunath. SKDRDP Executive Director Dr L H Manjunath inaugurating the Gubbiga Organic Village at Sutta in N R …
The government should provide subsidy to organic manure in order to promote organic farming, opined Dr D Anasuya, a botanist with Bangalore University. Speaking at an interaction meet on fertiliser subsidy policy and alternatives in Honnashettyhalli recently, she postulated that farmers in drought-hit region need incentives and the government should …
