Agricultural Inputs

Affidavit filed by the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board illegal and polluting kilns/crucibles along the Haryana-Rajasthan border near the Aravalli range, 01/05/2025

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 …

Effects of grass buffer strips using Ophiopogon japonicus on reducing soil and nitrogen losses under different fertilization

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 …

How sustainable is organic farming?

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 …

Effective management of wastewater by the distilleries in Tamil Nadu A case study

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 …

Not ready for rabi

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 …

Centre intensifies action to tackle fertiliser scarcity

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 …

FinMin calls for more agri credit flow

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 …

Fertiliser shortage hits potato farmers

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

Bihar farmers to get seeds at half price

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 …

Dont need subsidies, give us the right price

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 …

Farming made unprofitable

Poor support prices and costly agri inputs make a bad equation for farmers, Savvy Soumya Misra finds out What Mahendra Singh Tikait knows as a farmers

The next disruption

Skyrocketing phosphorous prices threaten our fertilizer-dependent agriculture There is something exceptional about the rise in world food prices this year. Prices of several food items including cereals and oilseeds have risen by more than 100 per cent in less than a year. The situation has been compounded by the rise …

Fertiliser subsidy: Govt may soon release Rs 50,000 cr

Joe C Mathew / New Delhi October 13, 2008, 0:58 IST 80% of delivered cost of fertiliser is realised from govt payouts. The government may sanction nearly Rs 50,000 crore as the first supplementary grant for settling fertiliser subsidy bills in the upcoming Parliament session beginning October 17. It intends …

Fertilizer outlets looted in Khammam

KHAMMAM: Mobs held sway over this town on Friday as they repeatedly raided numerous fertilizer outlets with the police, unable to control the situation, watching helplessly. Thousands of tribals, many of them farmers, stormed the town, smashed the shutters of fertilizer outlets and went on a looting spree in private …

Refined indigenous knowledge as sources of low input agricultural technologies in sub-Saharan Africa rural communities

The majority of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are small scale entrepreneurs whose farm operations are performed with low input agricultural technologies. Many of these technologies are supported with low input farm power and simple machines. Essentially, low input agricultural technologies are embodied in the refined indigenous knowledge systems. These include …

Lessons from a green revolution

The latest rescue plan for Africa is another Green Revolution. GRAIN, alongside a host of others, has written and commented extensively on the Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA) and the impacts it will have on the continent. In the meantime, this model of a Green Revolution has …

Factors influencing the use of compost from household waste in the centre province of Cameroon

The Centre province of Cameroon is facing both soil degradation problem in rural areas and the household waste management problem in Yaound

Estimation of nitrous oxide emission from pulse cultivation in rainfed uplands

There is a gradual increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs)like CH4 and N2O in ambient air due to intensive agriculture, rapid industrialization and the expanding transport sector. About 80% of N2O is produced biologically and the major sources are agricultural fields, wetlands, sediments, animal wastes and landfills. Emission …

Ample fertiliser stock assured

Guntur, Sept. 3: The district collector, Mr B. Venkatesam, on Wednesday said there would be no scarcity of fertilisers in the district with the beginning of the arrival of stocks to railway yard, Nehru Nagar in Guntur. The collector made a surprise check of fertiliser stocks being received at the …

Subsidised fertilizer: two views

In Malawi, the fifth poorest country in the world, the government introduced a voucher programme for small scale farmers, providing them access to subsidised fertilizer and seed. The country suddenly saw bumper harvests in both 2006 and 2007. Are fertilizer subsidies the way out of poverty for small scale farmers …

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