The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Pune Seventy two-year-old Parshuram Patil says his fields are his experiment ground. Having tested several crops, including Indrayani, Bhogavati and Phule Radha (improved varieties of paddy) in his field, this farmer from Bhor taluka has a lot of success stories to share
The media will have to serve as sources of early warning in relation to the emerging food crisis. A major trigger for the Green Revolution, which was a term coined by Dr. William Gaud of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1968 to mark a significant increase in crop production …
J. Balaji NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member and noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan has urged the media to give more importance to the agriculture sector to help it face another revolution on the lines of
Ranchi, Oct. 20: Thousands of farmers will soon be sent to other states to study models there and implement them here for better yield. Earlier, only politicians made similar trips at the expense of the state. As part of capacity-building exercise, the all expenses paid trip
Hyderabad, Oct. 20: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah on Tuesday announced that cooperative farming was not his priority. Maintaining that the programme was a non-starter, the Chief Minister told mediapersons that there were other important issues like floods and prices of essential commodities which needed his attention. He was …
Lack of irrigation facilities and anomalies in distribution of seed and fertilizers might adversely affect the much-hyped hybrid cultivation in the State. The harvest season of the State that witnessed unfavourable weather conditions to the utter dismay of thousands of farmers got off yesterday with harvesting of hybrid variety of …
Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government job and took up farming in his native village. Thanks to Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) under the Centrally sponsored
The Eastern Himalayan region has been proposed as another National Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Site, based on six indices. The region is the richest in species diversity among the northeastern states of India. It is the center of diversity for several widely distributed plant taxa and a crucible for speciation encompassing …
The way that industrial agriculture has treated soils has been a key factor in provoking the current climate crisis. But soils can also be a part of the solution, to a much greater extent than is commonly acknowledged. According to our calculations, if we could manage to put back into …
As Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) decline, this is increasingly translating to business risk and opportunity linked to reputational risk, security of supply and legal compliance. Survey of 31 companies in the food, beverage and tobacco sectors painted a picture of early stage response, of pilot projects, developing but incompletely …
Two formidable challenges seem to overarch agriculture and food production in this century: how to end hunger and how to keep global warming at a level that will allow humanity and the agroecosystems we depend upon to adapt in a noncatastrophic way. Two outstanding paradoxes mark these challenges: Modern agriculture …
Although many millions of people have exited poverty in recent decades, much of the reduction in poverty has benefited people living close to the poverty line rather than those at the very bottom of the income distribution. This book is not focused on poverty per se but rather is focused …
He helped fight hunger but with new cropping patterns and smaller land holdings, a new farming strategy is needed Barun Roy / New Delhi September 24, 2009, 0:43 IST What
Farming is becoming difficult and costlier day by day. The farming crisis in Punjab has deepened this year due to the failure of the monsoon, as a result of which the farmers had to invest more money to raise kharif crops, particularly paddy. This impression was given by the farmers …
SURINDER SUD The National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA) has come out with an elaborate strategy to make use of the late monsoon rains for compensatory crop production to offset part of the anticipated loss in kharif harvest. The authority involves sowing of pre-rabi crops in the areas which have remained …
A sub-project entitled "precision farming technologies based on micro-processor and decision support systems for enhancing input application efficiency in production agriculture", under the World Bank funded Mega National Agricultural Innovation Project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), was formally launched in consortium mode on Wednesday at Central Institute …
At a time when the cultivators of Assam are spending their days in hopelessness and agony because of the long spell of drought, a new method of cultivation named SRI has brought a ray of hope to them as by this method Ahu rice production can be doubled. This new …
This report begins with an overview of existing on-farm food safety policies and programs. It then analyzes the ramifications of existing and proposed protocols, and offers recommendations for improving produce safety while preserving the diversity of farm sizes and production methods present in the U.S. food system.
JAIPUR: Agricultural experts and scientists in Rajasthan have decided to take up agricultural activities in each district in accordance with its climatic requirements in view of the failure of this year
