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 …
The U.S. government will make its first in-depth survey of organic farming this spring, an eight-page questionnaire on which crops and livestock are produced, how they are grown and where they are sold. Questionnaires will be mailed in early May with responses due by mail or Internet by June 17, …
Work has begun on the Organic Farming, a cultivation project in the country envisaging without the usage of Chemical fertiliser and pesticides. The National Agriculture Research Council has started a pilot project, where wheat has been sown on 600 acres of land, vegetables on 60 acres and watermelon on 55 …
Nagpur: After ten long years of research punctuated with technical delays, the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur is ready with 20,000 packets of desi Bt cotton seeds for distribution to farmers starting next month. The Bikaneri Narma (BN Bt), as it is called, is a variety and …
Work has begun on the Organic Farming, a cultivation project in the country envisaging without the usage of Chemical fertiliser and pesticides. The National Agriculture Research Council has started a pilot project, where wheat has been sown on 600 acres of land, vegetables on 60 acres and watermelon on 55 …
Srinagar: Vice-Chancellor, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir, Anwar Alam has urged the scientific community to put in strenuous efforts to address emerging challenges in agriculture and allied sectors. He identified important issues in various sectors of agriculture, particularly forestry, fisheries and livestock husbandry that need focused …
Cereals production could fall by 50 percent in parts of southern Africa in the long term due to climate change, causing increased hunger and poverty, a researcher told an agriculture conference on Wednesday. South Africa is the largest carbon emitter on the continent, mainly due to its reliance on coal …
Germany will ban cultivation and sale of genetically modified (GMO) maize despite European Union rulings that the biotech grain is safe, its government said on Tuesday. The ban affects US biotech company Monsanto's MON 810 maize which may no longer be sown for this summer's harvest, German Agriculture and Consumer …
The loss of organic matter is major concern for Pakistans croplands, as the organic matter plays an important role in the physical structure of soils and, more importantly, is a medium for biological processes. In a report on Irrigated Agriculture and Cropland, an ADB study says that the purely mineral …
There is a shift towards limiting and eliminating chemically-cultivated cotton KARUR: A global movement on the use of organic cotton-based products was evolving rapidly and exporters must take note of the development to stay ahead of competitors, speakers stressed at a workshop on
Integrated farming is emerging as a viable proposition for farmers in Kerala, given its geographical and weather conditions, as can be inferred from the experience of a successful farmer in Wayanad. Dairy farming is vital for integrated farming, says Mr K.V. Divakaran, a farmer in a village near Kalpetta. He …
Kochi, April 6 Present system of agriculture is robbing the soil of its native reserves and that in turn would hamper the sustainability of the cropping system in the country. Farmers, therefore, need to revert to organic agriculture so as to enrich the already degraded soil, according to experts in …
The second report from the European Commission on the coexistence of GM crops with conventional and organic farming, published on April 2, 2009. 15 Members States have adopted legislation on coexistence, 11 more than in 2006 when the first coexistence report was published. Another 3 Member States have notified draft …
Global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textile products climbed 63 percent in 2008 to $3.2 billion, a report said on Wednesday. The Organic Cotton Market Report said some of the leading organic cotton retailers in the United States are Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Anvil Knitwear Inc, Nike Inc, …
Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option for rural communities and has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This article is a short review of this topic. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on wellestablished practice because …
The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) made important recommendations on how agriculture could mitigate GHG emissions. This report summarizes these recommendations and then compares them to scientific data from organic agriculture in order to assess the mitigation potential of organic farming. The four major recommendations …
The fruit production has decreased which may be due to weather factors or unrestricted imports is not clear. However, in the case of fruits lack of suitable commercial varieties with market preference has been a perennial problem. In both vegetable and fruits, unimproved varieties and obsolete production technologies lead to …
