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 …
Kochi, Aug. 25 Vadakkencherry Padasekhara Samithi, which is concentrating on organic paddy cultivation in Palakkad and Kuttanad, has requested the Union Agriculture Ministry to lift the blanket ban on rice exports. The Samithy
Mahim Pratap Singh JHABUA (MADHYA PRADESH): If it does not rain over the next week, farmers of Petlawad tehsil and its neighbouring regions in Jhabua might have to go the same way as their brethren in Vidarbha did. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan recently declared Jhabua, along with …
Ranchi, Aug. 20: Renowned ecologist and activist Vandana Shiva held the wrong agriculture policy responsible for the current food crisis in the country and called for organic farming. She also stressed on the need to restrain farmers from purchasing hybrid seeds. Shiva was speaking to the media at Kokar on …
KOHIMA, Aug 19: To boost organic agriculture in Nagaland, for the first time in the Northeast, the State Agriculture Department has signed a joint venture Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture (ICCOA), Bangalore. A communiqu issued by the Director of Agriculture said the programme works …
AMID lingering scepticism about possible health risks of GM (genetically modified) crops, Philippines is going ahead with its biotechnological adventures in crops. After commercializing the GM corn, Philippines government is set to introduce GM Golden Rice enriched with Vitamin A. The government funded Philippine Rice Research Institute (Phil Rice) executive …
Apouch of organic brown rice or arhar dal, or anything organically grown is enough to remind us of Vandana Shiva-scholar and relentless campaigner of eco rights, who has made the term 'organic' part of uppity fashion. Her 'Navdanya' label of organic grains, grown in her Dehradun farm of the same …
Pushpa M. Bhargava Policies with regard to agriculture, education and health need to change in order to ensure a meaningful and wide-ranging security for this country. The arms business is probably the second largest business in the world after the food business. It is, therefore, not surprising that we consider …
There is need for both organic and inorganic food The findings of a study sponsored by the British Food Standards Agency, that organic food is no healthier and provides no significant nutritional benefit when compared with conventionally produced food, may have irked the proponents of organic agriculture but it comes …
London: Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said published Wednesday that consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market …
Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said in a new report. The main challenge facing producers is how to raise yields of the water-dependent crop as 70% of the …
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, in collaboration with two of its alumni, is soon going to offer organic food to its students on campus. An outlet of
ALTERNATIVES: Government-run shops such as the Khadi Gramodyog Bhavan have devoted a portion of their shelf-space for organically grown products. CHENNAI: It was, perhaps, the widely travelled and the well-educated who re-introduced the concept of organic food in Indian restaurants. Today, tour operators ensure that their customers are satisfied, by …
Though acquatic weeds such as water hyacinth play a vital role in the acquatic ecosystem, congestion of the weeds in wetlands could hamper the general productivity of the ecosystem. Water hyacinth, besides working as a water purifier against organic pollution, is a boon for various kinds of fish species which …
Days after the government said it was planning to introduce genetically modified food crops in the country in three years, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gave a clear indication of the US administration
