The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft prepared about nine years ago by the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Among other things, …
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa State Seeds Corporation (OSSC) will provide four lakh quintals of paddy seed during the kharif. Last year, 2.5 lakh quintals paddy seed was supplied. According to corporation chairman Golak Behari Nayak, so far 3.35 lakh quintal seed had been supplied to the farmers while another 65,000 quintal …
Farmers queueing up in front of the Agriculture Department to procure seeds is a common sight. Appropriate steps have been undertaken to distribute sowing seeds for the cultivation of groundnuts and paddy to the farmers, informed Agriculture Assistant Director Chandrashekaran. Small and marginal farmers are procuring sowing seeds after attesting …
Awudu Ngutte works as a project co-ordinator for INAPA, a small organisation based in Buea, Cameroon. He has been receiving LEISA Magazine since 2004, sharing it with his colleagues and other organisations. He was particularly interested in issue 23.2,
Once, the women of Muddana Guddi, a village in Raichur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, suffered from drought and poverty. With no alternatives except cursing their own troubles, they used to migrate to neighbouring states for work. Now, they are earning their own livelihoods by running a …
University bans field trials THE Maharashtra agriculture university announced it would no longer allow field trials of GM food crops in its field at Kolhapur. The move came in the wake of a protest in March by hundreds of farmers and citizens against an open-air field test of GM corn …
It is presumed that remarkable increases in cotton productivity in India have come about through bacillus thuringiensis cotton and that this approach therefore must be replicated in other crops. This article explores the myth of rising yields of genetically modified crops and points out that genetic engineering has been at …
A year after the BJP Government came to power in Karnataka, the fertiliser and seed problems of the farmer are haunting back the Government in the State. Two days ago, the farmers in Lingayat-dominated Haveri in north Karnataka attacked two seed shops. Farmers are annoyed at the lack of seeds …
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 …
Brazil's biosafety regulator CTNBio has approved the use of Monsanto's Bollgard 2 genetically modified cotton seed, the company said on Thursday. The pest-resistant cotton variety must still be approved by Brazil's Agriculture Ministry before it can be planted in the country. U.S.-based Monsanto has a total of six genetically modified …
The farming community has urged the government to conduct district-wise yield survey to collect information on the varieties of seeds sown by the farmers. Khawja Muhammad Shoaib of Farmers Vision Forum said that many factors had combined to give a sizeable wheat crop, including reasonable procurement price announced by the …
Agri-experts have said that increased farming of jute could revive the past glory of the golden fibre to usher in a new era in the country's economy as well as save the environment and soil health. Because of its completely eco-friendly characters with quick rotting system, demand for jute has …
Monsanto Co said on Wednesday that it expects its US gross profit from sales of seeds and traits to double by 2012 from the 2008 level, while its international businesses should grow by 85 percent. That would amount to a gross profit of $4.7 billion to $4.8 billion by 2012, …
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 …
A tripartite meeting of top officials of US, Pakistan, and Afghanistan held here Thursday and they agreed on a working plan to alleviate poverty through rapid agriculture growth, as a step forward addressing the root-cause of terrorism and extremism. Food and Agriculture Minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal who led Pakistan's delegation …
The crop-biotechnology wars are heating up again, with Monsanto Co. filing a patent-infringement lawsuit against archrival DuPont Co., which responded by calling Monsanto a monopolist. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal district court in Monsanto's hometown of St. Louis, is aimed at forcing DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business to dismantle …
