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 …
Daliapur-based Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), along with the district agriculture and fisheries departments, has come to the rescue of farmers of drought-hit Dhanbad. A programme called Chalein Gaon Ki Or has been launched, under which scientists are to visit rural hinterlands to provide much-needed technical knowhow on coping with the …
At a time when hundreds of farmers in Sonitpur district have been reeling under the on-going drought-like situation and the resultant uncertain future, a section of farmers of Saraka, Saraka Baligaon Purani Ghatwa, etc., areas under Bihuguri development block and Tezpur and Dhekiajuli revenue circles of Sonitpur district have been …
Mushroom farmers of Sonapur area are eyeing online help for fund-raising opportunities in England as well as potential market linkage in that country to boost their cluster farming system. After spending three weeks with the mushroom farmers, Gareth Knott, a student of Mathematics at the University of Bath, England hopes …
Aug. 3: Major Opposition parties including the Telugu Desam, the Praja Rajyam and Left parties have decided to oppose the government proposal to introduce cooperative farming. TD sources said that the party president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, has asked district leaders and cadre to fight the government if there were …
Israel has pledged support to a project for growing olive at Sirsa ( Haryana). Technology transfer and funds to the tune of Rs 15 crore have been offered to two projects, one at Sirsa and the other at Karnal, for growing fruits and vegetables more economically, said Ambassador of Israel …
- Special seeds distributed, agriculture training proposed Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Balipur, Dhanbad. Dhanbad, July 20: A weak and erratic monsoon has spelt doom for farmers of Dhanbad district this kharif season, prompting a worried administration to mount efforts to tackle the crisis. Till July 18, the state received a …
Federal government has provided Rs 1607.012 million for providing training and latest agriculture input technology to small farmers to enhance per acre yield and increase their income with collective market mechanism and small agro business interventions in Sindh. This was informed in a meeting of Provincial Steering Committee of the …
Sanjeev Sanyal / New Delhi July 04, 2009, 0:14 IST It's time we busted a few myths and revamped our strategy towards the farm sector. In recent weeks, there have been growing apprehensions that the monsoons of 2009 will fall short of normal. This has again raised fears of rising …
The concept of local food is appealing to many consumers. But it is difficult to define what actually constitutes local food. Given the globalised nature of agricultural markets, bread baked in a small village bakery in England may be made from grain grown in Canada. Similarly, many of the inputs …
CHENNAI: Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam on Tuesday introduced a Bill in the Assembly seeking to regulate agricultural practice and to establish an agricultural council. At present there is no law for regularisation of agriculture in the State. The Bill is also for registration of agriculture practitioners in the State …
The Principal Secretary for Food Processing and Harvest Technology, Agriculture and Horticulture Department, Raghavan Suresh, informed that the Department will develop adequate post-harvest technologies in all districts. Speaking to media after a review meet of the district-level officers at Zilla Panchayath here on Thursday, he said value addition in the …
June 1: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, directed the Agriculture Technology Mission to work out the modalities for implementing cooperative farming in AP. As per the novel method, which is already being practised in countries like Israel, China and Vietnam, entire land measuring more than 1,000 acres in …
Agroforestry has high potential for simultaneously satisfying three important objectives viz., protecting and stabilizing the ecosystems; producing a high level of output of economic goods; and improving income and basic materials to rural population. Besides, agroforestry is capable to conserve natural resources through various systems under different agroclimatic regions. The …
FORWARD LINKAGES: V. Balaji, Global Leader, Agricultural Knowledge Initiatives, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, (left) speaking at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore. COIMBATORE:
Adichunchanagiri Ramanagar Shaka Mutt Seer Siddarameshwara swamij emphasising the need for adopting natural farming said natural farming which envisages zero-budget agriculture practices, is a panacea to the ills of plaguing farmers. Addressing the natural farming motivators at a training programme at a farm in Hunegall, on Friday, the seer said, …
