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, …
Otherwise farmers will be left at the mercy of MNCs, they say ERODE: Farmers affiliated to the Tamizhaga Vivasayeegal Sangam have urged the Union and State governments to ban the sale of GM seeds and field trials. In a release the farmers have said that the governments must enforce a …
Hill farming system involves diverse crops and their varieties, medicinal plants, forest species, practiced by the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. These tribal farmers are conserving biodiversity and meeting the food, balanced nutrition and health benefits from this farming system. Recognizing and rewarding the custodians of biodiversity and conserving the …
The paper examines the impact of Intellectual Property Rights on the Indian seed industry. The data used in the study have been taken from the reputed published sources. The study brought out that as long as Indian farmer continues to be a grain producer and does not convert himself into …
In 1999, Aspen and David Edge bought Semilla Besada, a 12 hectare farm in southern Spain, with the intention of re-establishing its family farming tradition. They faced various challenges: the dryland environment, lack of markets and little social support. However, through using various management and design tools, encouraging diversity on …
Farmers in the Yoro and Otoro regions of Honduras have organised themselves into agricultural research teams to improve the diversity and resilience of their farms. Supported by local and international organisations, these farmers have diversified their plant genetic resources and developed hardier varieties that grow well on their soils. Their …
LUCKNOW: The cabinet at its meeting held recently under the chairmanship of CM Mayawati took a few pro-farmer decisions. The government has changed the rates of tax on gypsum, components of sprinkler sets and seeds under Vat Act, 2008. According to the cabinet decision, the four per cent tax levied …
The technical programme for evaluation of the Bt cotton hybrids through ICAR trials during 2008-09 was formulated under the Chairmanship of the Assistant Director General (Commercial Crops), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi for the four events which have been approved for commercial cultivation by GEAC (Ministry of Environment …
Chandigarh: The UT State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has upheld the order of the Bhiwani district forum, passed in 2001, wherein a seed company was directed to pay compensation for providing poor quality seeds to three Bhiwani-based farmers in separate cases. The complainant, Nathu Ram, purchased three bags of wheat …
Yangchan Dolma Leh, January 19 Many agricultural implements and seeds being distributed among farmers under various schemes are of poor quality. Congress councillor Shafi Lasu alleged this before the LUFT-led Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, on the first day of the council
The year 2008 was calamitous on many fronts for the State. Silver lining was the agriculture sector. The vagaries of nature did not deter the farming community from reaching its goal. Notwithstanding the series of calamities visiting the state year after year since 1998, Orissa has been able to attain …
Jardhargaon is a village at a height of 1500 metres situated in the hilly district of Tehri Garhwal in the state of Uttarakhand in North India. Jardhargaon came under the influence of Chipko Movement through the active involvement of one of its residents, Vijay Jardhari. In 1980 a Van Suraksha …
In coastal Karnataka, it is common for households to have bunches of onions hanging in the kitchen or from the roofs of the top floor of houses. They are pink, long tailed and medium sized, and are grown in a hamlet called Vannalli in the coastal taluk of Kumta in …
With their kitchen gardens in local communities, women are responsible for the food crops that secure the food supply. Cash crops and monetary income are, on the other hand, defi ned as masculine. The construction of women
The FAO document on the key challenges to seed security in developing countries. It contributes to and develops the seed security-related aspects of FAO
The Thengal-Kacharis, belonging to the Boro-Kachari ethnic groups are one of the most ancient inhabitants of Assam with rich tradition and cultural history. The bari or homestead gardening has had great significance from the point of conservation, consumption and management of biodiversity. Women of this community have played a key …
If things work according to plan, villages in Jharkhand will soon generate electricity for their own consumption. Dhanbad-based Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research has shown them the way. The institute has discovered a process of generating electricity at a cheap rate from plant waste, particularly from putus, a …
Conceding that the State Government has failed to supply seeds in time to the farmers under Calamity Relief Fund (CRF), State Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma today blamed the revenue department for the sorry state of affairs.
