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 …
IVth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (CA) in New Delhi organised Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS). FAO, along with IFAD and other Indian and international organizations are among the sponsors and co-organizers of this largest global gathering of the Conservation Agriculture …
Jangveer Singh Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 21 The Punjab government has decided to form a committee to verify the quality of green houses in the state set up under the National Horticulture Mission following farmers
Hisar: Expressing deep concern over less than 3 per cent growth in agriculture, Vice-Chancellor of Haryana Agriculture University Dr J C Katyal has called upon agriculture scientists to devise a cost-effective technology, which might help farmers in getting the maximum yield of crops. Emphasising upon the need of crop rotation …
The crop productivity in Siwalik rainfed areas including kandi belt of Jammu and Kashmir is very low. To improve the agricultural productivity of these areas, a holistic approach through watershed management project was introduced in early 1990 to manipulate land and water resources more efficiently for better crop production. The …
Sikkim is not self-sufficient in food production due to limited land availability for cultivation and lower level of productivity affected by constraining mountain specificities such as inaccessibility, fragility and marginality. The people are rich in indigenous knowledge on bio-resources and supplemented their food from the wild plants and animals in …
This guidelines provide basic information and practical guidance for anyone who participates in a FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) - whether as a FAO/WFP core team member, a government or other agency participant, or a donor observer. They can also be of use to organizations and individuals …
Betel nut farmers at the foothills of the Western Ghats have something new and important to teach India and the rest of the world, says Jai Ranganathan, lead author of a recent scientific study that was published recently in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Fifty-two per cent of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) and on-farm testing service of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), were still demonstrating old crop varieties released between 1948 and 1997 in frontline demonstrations on oilseeds and pulses. As a result, the latest crop varieties and …
DH News Service, Chikmagalur: Organic farming process must be promoted for the farmers to become self dependent, said MLC C T Ravi. Laying the foundation stone for the veterinary hospital at Sindigere village, Mr Ravi said that India is incomplete without farmers and farmers are incomplete without cattle.
Policy makers in India recognize the importance of well-functioning markets to agricultural growth, food security, and broad-based rural development. Markets facilitate the commercialization and diversification of farming, and they are essential for efficiently bringing food and agricultural products to domestic and international consumers. Well functioning domestic markets can reduce the …
M.J. PRABU Safe & secure: The farmer, Subbaian in his lush organic farm in Tamil Nadu. The importance of good soil and clean water for raising any crop can hardly be overemphasised. A soil with low fertility and a contaminated water source can make life very difficult for farmers.
Mangalore, DHNS: NABARD Regional Training College in Mangalore will be organising a national seminar on 'Agri Produce Enrichment' on October 13 and 14. According to a press release, the seminar with the slogan
THE Netherlands, a small country in Europe with a population smaller than 16 million, is the second largest exporter of agricultural and horticultural produce in the world after the United States. A visit to some of the high-tech centres, greenhouses and dairy farms in the country was an eye-opener for …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi October 07, 2008, 0:12 IST New farming technologies can help not only improve land productivity, but also reverse climate change. Faster agricultural growth in the past was largely the result of promoting higher use of water, fertilisers and other energy-intensive inputs and technologies. But now, …
Test: Soil samples being collected from a farm at Krishnapuram near Palayamkottai. TIRUNELVELI: Farmers, who have cultivated horticultural crops, especially perennial crops under drip irrigation, should test the soil and water, which are mandatory not only to claim subsidy under micro irrigation system but also to know their health condition …
Chandigarh, September 19 The Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board (HSAMB) has decided to set up air-conditioned agro malls for the sale of all kinds of agricultural based products, food products and other allied products at various places in the state. To be developed on the pattern of international supermarkets, two …
M. J. PRABU The formulation can be used as a spray for a variety of crops Mr. N. Gopalakrishnan (standing), demonstrating to farmers the manufacture of the egg lime formulation. Power cuts, fertilizer shortage, high input costs, absence of reliable marketing channels and labour shortage are plaguing most of the …
