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 …
Even a few organic fields on a farm may improve biodiversity, the study found Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests. Fields around organic farms have more types of wild plants, providing benefits for wildlife, say scientists. …
Allocates Rs 10 crore for organic farming under the organic farming policy released in April Gujarat government will spend about Rs 10 crore in a year to promote organic farming in the state under the organic farming policy. The government had announced the policy in April this year. A state …
Ecological Farming combines modern science and innovation with respect for nature and biodiversity. It ensures healthy farming and healthy food. It protects the soil, the water and the climate. It does not contaminate the environment with chemical inputs or use genetically engineered crops. And it places people and farmers – …
Rice cultivators in the brackish water paddy tracts of the northern districts of the State, especially Kattampally here, can now cultivate a new saline-tolerant hybrid organic rice variety developed as part of the organic plant breeding programme of the Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS) at Pilikkode in Kasaragod. The new …
A landmark GM contamination case has for now swung in favour of an organic farmer facing a huge legal bill, while his adversary must reveal if he was backed by Monsanto or an industry group. Steve Marsh’s bid last year to sue Kojonup neighbour and former childhood friend Michael Baxter …
Although most people believe that organic farming involves no use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers. But an investigation by the Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), an apex association of the Indian agrochemical industry that advances the cause of Indian farmers through better crop protection strategies, has unearthed just the …
KOCHI: City's apartment complexes have joined hands to implement various effective waste management systems. While some apartment associations turned to organic farming by using bio-degradable waste generated from individual dwelling units, others have come up with innovative ideas like using hollow tiles for paving the ground or substituting CFLs with …
Nearly half of food products in Europe contain residues of pesticides, with strawberries the most likely to exceed legal limits, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said on Thursday. The official EU body also found traces of pesticides in organic foods, though it said its analysis of almost 81,000 food …
Soil toxicity alarmingly high; urea consumption estimated at 400-600 kg per hectare Punjab, the country’s food basket, has slowly turned into the land of toxicity. Excessive use of pesticides and fertilisers by farmers and a largely indifferent establishment has over the years resulted in severe ecological and environmental degradation that …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday announced the setting up of a Organic Farming Board in the state. He was speaking at the valedictory function of the fifth National Organic Farming Convention at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR). The CM said that promotion of …
A balance between development and environment is possible. Germany is a highly industrialized country yet it is a clean country. The political 'Green Party' that is in favour of environment-friendly industries and solar energy has been elected in many parts of the nation. It is the greed for limitless profit …
The city has always been a poor performer in waste management and garbage disposal and the situation is getting worse by the day. Hoping to make a difference, a city-based NGO has come up with an innovative idea to decompose household garbage. Assam Pollution Control Board (APCB) has promised to …
Lord Krebs claims that organic farming needs more land than conventional methods to produce the same yield Organic farming could be worse for the climate than conventional farming methods, one of the government’s scientific advisers has said, because of the greater land use required and the methods used. Lord Krebs, …
2015 is the International Year of Soils. This Soil Atlas shows what can succeed and why the soil should concern us all. The report, co-published with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam and Le Monde Diplomatique, draws on facts and figures on the significance …
A farmer in Madurai district, who adopted organic farming, has reaped a handsome paddy harvest. A N M Tiruppathi of Kulamangalam village has revived the agricultural methods of his ancestors and used cow and sheep dung to enrich the soil on his 15 acres of paddy field. He used organic …
Former Chief Secretary (CS) RS Tolia today emphasised on bringing more and more farmers from the state into the ambit of organic farming. Tolia, while addressing farmers at the Survey chowk organic haat here today, said Uttarakhand had immense potential in the sector of organic farming. He stressed on encouraging …
This paper attempts to model the positive role of cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) crop with its soil-anchoring root-characteristic and use of conservation-tillage technology, in saving organic matter contents in the topsoil and reducing soil erosion. In a dynamic optimization framework the farmer produces an optimal combination of a GM …
Programme extended to entire state after success of pilot project The benefits of going the organic way Enthused by the success of pilot organic farming projects in Shimla and Rampur launched in 2005, the state Agriculture Department has extended the programme to the entire state now. Farmers in rural and …
Madhya Pradesh has maximum 25 lakh 82 thousand hectares under organic farming in the country. This is about half of total organic farming area in India. This was informed at a meeting of Agriculture Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here today. At the meeting, a presentation was …
Experts from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) while interacting with farmers at Agro Tech 2014 stated that the use of new-age methods such as organic farming and solar energy in farm operations was the need of the hour. Dr MK Paliwal, Assistant Director, Regional Centre for Organic Farming, and …
