This report evaluates emission mitigation options to achieve net-zero carbon emissions through marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves for the existing plants in the fertiliser industry. MAC curves were developed for three major fertilisers produced in India, which account for 85 per cent of total fertiliser production—urea, di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), and …
Oslo Many farmers in developing nations can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, a UN report showed on Tuesday. Insect-trapping plants in Kenya and Bangladesh's use of ducks to eat weeds in rice paddies are among examples of …
Traditional replenishing practices should be encouraged to raise crop yields Soil fatigue has emerged as one of the key constraints in raising crop yields. Most of the arable land in India has been cropped for decades and some even for centuries. In the process, nutrient consumption has far exceeded the …
New Delhi: Just when UPA is grappling with food inflation, Union minister M K Alagiri has sounded alarm over shooting fertilizer prices under the Nutrient-Based Subsidy (NBS), saying the policy introduced in the last budget was hurting the poor farmer. Ten months after the Centre freed fertilizer price and linked …
Despite partial decontrol of two classes of fertilisers from April last year, the total fertiliser subsidy requirement for the fiscal is likely to go up by about Rs 10,000-15,000 crore from the Rs 54,981 crore already provided as fertiliser consumption has shot up due to a good monsoon. Besides, importers …
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government in the budget tabled in the assembly on Tuesday promised to spend over Rs 4,400 crore on agriculture and allied activities this year with a target to produce 538.25 lakh metric tonne food grains and 14.56 lakh metric tonne oil seeds. The government has also …
The finance ministry has met with stiff political opposition from chemicals and fertilisers minister MK Alagiri and state chief ministers to its plan to decontrol the price of the most commonly used fertiliser-urea-from April 1, this year. Tamil Nadu chief minister K M Karunanidhi and his counterpart in Punjab, Parkash …
This new report by Greenpeace assesses the impact of government policies on soil health across five states of India and warns that indiscriminate chemical fertilizer usage, catalyzed by a lenient subsidy policy is posing a threat to country's soil health. This is the report of the first-ever social audit of …
IT IS back to square one for the farmers of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh. Reeling under persistent drought from 2003-08, they were driven to mentha (mint) cultivation that promised good returns. Instead, it increased debts. Cultivation of this water-intensive crop is fast shrinking due to depletion of groundwater and …
JAIPUR: Farmers in Rajasthan will soon be getting insecticides of high quality certified by authorised laboratories for their crops at subsidised prices through cooperative societies. A tripartite agreement for supplies by Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL) was signed here on Tuesday. State Principal Cooperative Secretary R. K. Meena said the signing …
In economic terms, it may sound vague that agricultural advances are touching Rs 30,000 crore when incidences of farmers committing suicide are on the rise in Madhya Pradesh. Over the last fortnight, three farmers have committed suicide and another is battling for life. State authorities are lending a deaf ear …
Methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas (GHG), is involved in a number of chemical and physical processes in the earth’s atmosphere, including global warming. In the global CH4 cycle, substantial amount of CH4 is consumed by biological processes. The only known biological sink for atmospheric CH4 is its oxidation in …
Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria said that we should adopt bio-farming for improving fertility of soil. He said that bio-farming is a revolution. We have to analyze the old and investigate about the new knowledge and squeeze the goodness from both old and new. While expressing …
The new nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy policy provides implicit incentives to farmers to test soil samples regularly and get crop-wise recommended doses of nutrients, and offers prospective benefits from the agro-environmental management point of view. A study of six villages in the lower Bhavani Basin in Tamil Nadu reveals that despite …
The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has given instructions for timely distribution of fertilizers to farmers. He was reviewing the preparations for distribution of fertilizers at a meeting at Mantralaya here today. Stressing the need for regular monitoring of distribution mechanism, Chouhan gave instructions to take all possible measures for …
This paper discusses the need to shift from chemical intensive agriculture to organic farming. The authors in their vision for a chemical-free agriculture also stress that organic agriculture is a way to achieve food security. The authors begin with the current crisis in Indian agriculture. Stating that though the Green …
- Centrally-sponsored project at AAU department explores use of by-product Jorhat: A project sponsored by the central department of science and technology at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) to explore the use of flyash in the agricultural sector has shown
Potential interactions between food production and climate mitigation are explored for two situations in sub-Saharan Africa, where deforestation and land degradation overlap with hunger and poverty. Three agriculture intensification scenarios for supplying nitrogen to increase crop production (mineral fertilizer, herbaceous legume cover crops
