Organic Farming

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding endangered feral horses in Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Assam, 16/12/2024

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 …

For these women money does grow on (neem) trees

Once, the women of Muddana Guddi, a village in Raichur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, suffered from drought and poverty. With no alternatives except cursing their own troubles, they used to migrate to neighbouring states for work. Now, they are earning their own livelihoods by running a …

Rice delight

Rice has different gastronomical connotations to different people. It could mean the aromatic biryani or Sambhar-rice or simply dal-chawal. Rice is also top priority of GM pushers and farmers and activists are doing whatever it takes to keep them at bay. After rounds of protests, petitions and public awareness it …

Environment wont be stumbling block to growth: Jairam

New Delhi: Signaling the direction in which the UPA Government will move with regard to industrialisation in its second innings, new Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said environmental issues would not be allowed to become

Punjab goes green, reaps profits from organic wheat

WHILE a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot. They are selling their produce at the rate of Rs 2,500 per quintal; a few varieties are fetching Rs …

New rice varieties defy floods

BHUBANESWAR: Two new rice varieties - Swarna Sub-1 and IR.64 Sub-1 - developed by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, combining high-yield potential with high degree of tolerance to submergence, have proved as a boon for flood-prone area farmers of South Asia, including Orissa. Talking to this paper, Jafran Keshari …

Green Party vetoes food safety bill

A US bill undermines small farms, even gardening the Green Party of the US has urged the government to amend the food safety bill to protect small-scale farms and organic farming. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 was introduced in the US House of Agriculture in February. It is …

Organic India launches surgarcane syurps

Organic India on Sunday launched surgarcane juice in the form of syurp. The syrup has been fortified with a number of herbs that guard against harmful chemicals found in conventional sugar while maintaining its nutritional qualities. Briefing newsmen, Corporate Communications manager Vandita Joan Samuel said the syrup contained whole herbs …

USDA: $50 Million In EQIP For Farmers Going Organic

Farmers will have three weeks to apply for $50 million in land stewardship funding to help pay the cost of converting to organic production, said the U.S. Agriculture Department on Tuesday. USDA said the special sign-up would run May 11-29 under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. It will be open …

Organic mangoes unlimited

Ganni Khan, an organic crop cultivator from Karnataka, arranging mangoes at the Organic Mango Festival that began at Lumiere Organic Restaurant, Panam KOCHI: Want to beat the summer blues? Head straight to Lumiere Organic Mango Fest, the week-long organic mango festival organised by Lumiere organic restaurant at Panampilly Nagar. The …

Andhra Pradesh revises Bt-II cotton seed price to Rs 750

Andhra Pradesh has put the price of Bt-II cottonseed at Rs 750 (for a packet of 450 gm) and that of Bt-I at Rs 650. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, the Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister, said that the orders to this effect had been …

Poverty more dangerous than GM side-effects: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday tried to strike a balance between the apprehended side-effects of genetically modified seeds and foodgrains and the highincidence of hunger and poverty in India. Hearing PILs seeking stringent regulatory mechanism and advanced testing for the toxicity of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs), a …

Scientists find organic agriculture can feed the world and more

Two usual objections are levelled against the proposal that organic agriculture can feed the world. Organic agriculture, opponents claim, gives low yields, and there isn

Your terrace could be your farm too

Tired of stepping out for veggies and fruits? Well, then maybe you should consider soil-less cultivation. It isn

Improving sugarcane cultivation in India: sustainable sugarcane initiative

Farmers cultivating sugarcane are facing multiple problems. Water is one of the major constraints and it is affecting the productivity and profi tability of sugarcane growers and millers. The problem is going to further deteriorate due to variability of rainfall infl uenced by climate change. So, unless sugarcane farmers are …

Certification systems

Certification is of two types: Third Party System (TPS) and Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS). Under TPS, the certifying body inspects and monitors fileds. Charges can go up to Rs 5,000 for an acre (0.4 hectare). PGS entails training farmers to monitor fields. It is a zero-cost system and suited for …

Andhra farmers to earn more

Group certification for organic farmers in the state ABOUT 6,000 farmers from 138 villages in Andhra Pradesh who practise organic farming can next year expect a premium price for their produce. Certification by the National Centre for Organic Farming in Ghaziabad will help them earn more. The Society for Elimination …

Medias role in disseminating latest agri-technology to farmers emphasised

Speakers at a workshop here on Monday said that the media could play the most vital role in disseminating the latest agri-technologies to the farmers for ensuring the country's food security through increasing productions. The farmers should be provided with the latest information communication technology facilities everywhere to enable them …

Development of first non-lodging and high-yielding rice cultures for saline kaipad paddy tracts of Kerala, India

Production of organic rice is a necessity of the present era. Hence, development of high-yielding rice varieties, suitable for a salinity stress area which is naturally an organic production system like the

Parc's role in agricultural research lauded

Sardar Asif Ahmed Ali, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (PC) has said that Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Parc) is playing a vital role in innovative agricultural research and lauded the efforts of agricultural scientists. He showed keen interest in alternative agricultural experimentation while witnessing the organic wheat fields, fruit orchards, Kalonji …

After organic farming, its agro-tourism for this bureaucrat

KALOMAJRA( PATIALA): For the past year and a half, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village. While he is successfully cultivating wheat and paddy, he also has plans to grow vegetables and flowers in a similar …

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