Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
The government has taken up an agricultural rehabilitation programme aiming to provide input support free to some 2025 small and marginal farmers of four districts, said agriculture ministry sources. The government will distribute required seeds and fertilisers among the poor and marginal farmers of eleven upazilas of the districts as …
Niladri Bhattacharya / Mumbai April 9, 2009, 0:24 IST Public sector banks (PSBs) may have to deal with higher provisioning on a total outstanding amount of around Rs 25,000 crore under the farmers
Newly-appointed CII president, Venu Srinivasan, today met West Bengal chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, to discuss issues relating to contract farming.
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Indian farmers stand to lose crops worth over Rs. 25,000 crore annually due to use of sub-standard pesticides and insecticides, a farmers
COIMBATORE: Scientists have identified that water scarcity was a major impediment to agricultural productivity in Allapalayam village in Coimbatore. A group of them, recruited for the Agricultural Research Service of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, undertook a study of a sample village in Coimbatore to find out the problems …
Nitrogen-based fertilisers have helped all but eradicate famine in large parts of the world. But reactive nitrogen in circulation has now doubled. Owen Gaffney asks, what effect is this having on the carbon cycle?
Worldwide demand of phosphate fertilizer is met essentially from phosphatic rocks. India imports most of its requirements and produces a small portion through froth flotation of Precambrian stromatolitic rock phosphate. Increasing population and consequent increase in demand for food production necessitated investigation to utilize the large reserves of low-grade rock …
Traditional approaches to supplying food are an inefficient 'band aid', says Pedro A. Sanchez. New evidence shows that helping farmers to help themselves is more effective and would be six times cheaper.
This study deals with the effects of grass buffer strips using Ophiopogon japonicus on reducing soil and nitrogen losses from fertilized plots and the evaluation of the trapping characteristics under different depth of surface water gathered. Chemical fertilizer, conventional compost and granular compost were broadcasted on soils in both slope …
Demand for organic products continues to grow and outstrip the supply. How organic are these products, when they have to be transported over many miles to reach consumers? And how sustainable is organic produce, when it is grown on large farms, leaving less and less room for biodiversity? Questions like …
There are 15 distilleries in Tamil Nadu under operation. The distillery effluent (mainly spent wash) is dark brown in colour and acidic in nature. It contains high percentage of dissolved organic, inorganic matter and potassium. Till year 2000 these units had disposed the partly treated effluent on land as fertilizer …
Banks hesitate in lending to farmers in Uttar Pradesh; fertilizers and seeds in short supply Farmers in Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh know at least one person they can count on in times of doubt or crisis. Manoj Kumar, 30, has been working with farmers for eight years, travelling to …
Press Trust of India / New Delhi November 09, 2008, 14:50 IST Amid complaints of fertiliser shortage in certain parts, the Centre has decided to organise video-conferencing with state agriculture departments on a daily basis to ensure adequate supply in the Rabi season. "The Centre has decided to hold video-conferences …
Prashant K Sahu / New Delhi November 04, 2008, 0:21 IST Alarmed at the prospect of not meeting the annual farm credit target of Rs 2,80,000 crore for 2008-09, the finance ministry has asked banks to undertake special drives to enhance credit flow to agriculture. Finance Minister P Chidambaram will …
Vishnu Pandey / Kanpur November 01, 2008, 20:55 IST A severe fertiliser shortage is threatening the timely sowing of potato and allied crops such as mustard in the
Patna: Bihar Agriculture Minister Nagmani on Tuesday said farmers would be given 50 per cent subsidy on the high yielding variety of seeds for Rabi crops -- wheat, gram and masur. Mr. Nagmani said initially two farmers from each of 45,000 villages in the State would be provided seeds at …
Rising input prices have almost sounded the death knell for the farmer. Is there a way out? A special report published in Down To Earth. For most Indians, Mahendra Singh Tikait is the man who brought Delhi to its knees in 1988 with a rally that brought the national capital …
