Action taken report by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board on the operation of 9 cold storages in tehsil Sadabad, Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh. During the visit, one of the cold storage units was not in operational condition and found closed. The other 8 cold storage facilities were found …
Experiment with new red variety that has low sugar content; a hit with food chains Prashant Dayal | TNN Ahmedabad: French fries and wedges are irresistible. And now eating them may not take you on a guilt trip. Some farmers of Palanpur in north Gujarat have started growing a variety …
Sow Coarse Grains, Govt Tells Farmers This is a dark cloud without any silver lining. The monsoon winds that send hearts and minds soaring throughout the country
The government is set to make the potato an essential commodity to prevent hoarding. Finance minister Asim Dasgupta said he would issue a notification tomorrow declaring potatoes
Thanks to late arrival of the monsoon and the drought-like situation witnessed in most parts of the country, especially at the sources of production, prices of potato and onion to continue to remain high in the State till the arrival of fresh crops in October.
Contract farming if carefully planned and executed, provides a win-win situation for both the producer and processors. It ensures better linkage between farm and market where processor gets timely and consistent supply of raw material of the desired quality at low cost. The contract farmers in the study were the …
KOHIMA, May 21: The department of Agriculture in Nagaland is venturing into seed production by farmers themselves. This year Breeder seeds of potato were issued to selected farmers of Southern Angami area and the crops is showing excellent performance as anticipated by the department. The Breeder seeds produced this year …
When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped …
The humble potato has come a long way IN 1852, Karl Marx described the peasantry as a sack of potatoes. The fickle attitude of farmers towards the short-lived Paris Commune had irked the old revolutionary. He would be a little less condescending towards peasants, elsewhere. But according to all evidence …
Seed business is thriving in the country backed by a number of corporate biggies who came up to grab a slice of around Tk 1,000 crore market for hybrid and high-yield seeds. In the recent years more than half a dozen conglomerates such as Ispahani, Energypac, Square, Paragon, Getco and …
Speakers at a seminar held here on Monday stressed the need for sustainable development of agricultural sector in Baltistan. They said people of the region were self-sufficient in wheat and other agricultural products in the past but presently they were paying less attention to this sector due to which the …
Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said on Monday she will allow test cultivation of a potato containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Open air trials of the GMO potato Amflora, developed by German chemicals group BASF presented no threat to public health or the environment, she said. Aigner said this month …
Jalandhar: The state government has ordered the registration of a case against the company that allegedly supplied spurious mother seed to potato farmers of the Doaba belt. Acting swiftly on protests by farmers against Technico Agri Services Ltd in Shahkot and Malsian a couple of days ago, the Financial Commissioner …
Jalandhar: Doaba farmers today demonstrated at Jaffarpur village, near Shahkot, 40 km from here, to protest against a potato seed company-Technico limited. Farmers accused the company of providing defective seed to them. Sukhjit Singh Bhatti, president of the Confederation of Potato Seed Farmers, said he had suffered loss of Rs …
LUCKNOW: It is globally known for being the city where one of the seven wonders of the world, Taj is situated. But what has Agra to do with Aaloo (Potato)? A lot, according to a study conducted by the marketing department of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L). The tuber, …
Soil scientists and agronomists revealed that salinity has started rising in the agriculture fields with indiscriminate and unwise using of salt in the country's northwestern region creating an apprehension of detrimental impact to soil nutrients and fertility. They said the farmers, potato, paddy and banana growers in particular, have been …
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is one of the most important crops grown in the hilly regions of Meghalaya state in Northeast India. Land preparation for potato cultivation is carried out in an indigenous or traditional way, locally called Nur Bun method. "Nur" is the agricultural land unit in the local Khasi …
Alka Pande Posted: Mar 27, 2009 at 2233 hrs IST Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a bumper potato crop for the second consecutive year. But unlike last year when the produce had to be destroyed with cold storages bursting at the seams, there isn
