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 …
Gandhinagar: With a view to protecting the interests of farmers going in for greenhouse and polyhouse farming, the government has undertaken a stringent exercise for empanelment of companies that would build and maintain these units. Once the system is put in place, the companies will have to ensure that the …
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the state government has decided to introduce a separate Agricultural policy for small and marginal farmers in Karnataka. Inaugurating the International Krishimela-2013 at GKVK campus on Thursday, he said, to encourage integrated farming for small and marginal farmers in dry land areas, the government has …
The Karnataka government today launched an agricultural marketing policy aimed at fostering competition, capacity building, bringing in transparency and ushering in an era of single unified licence. State's Minister for Horticulture and Agro Marketing Shamanur Shivashankarappa, who unveiled the document, said licensing procedures would be simplified and a single licence …
Stating that the overall area under rice production had reduced from 45,000 hectares to 32,000 hectares in the last 10 years due to mining, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Director, Dr Narendra Pratap Singh said that now the trend is reversing due to the closure of mining operations. Rice …
Maintaining or enhancing organic carbon is a slow process particularly in tropical regions where rapid decomposition of organic matter results in loss of carbon. Results of a number of experiments conducted in India and abroad conclusively proves the potential, however the rates of sequestration have been low. There is a …
The greatest challenge faced by scientists in agriculture and allied branches is to reverse the adverse effect of modern agricultural practices on environment, speakers at a farm training programme observed. Addressing a training programme for Local Self Government Institution (LSGI) functionaries organised by the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Economics …
Focus on eliminating middlemen to help farmers The State Cabinet on Thursday is learnt to have constituted a sub-committee to draft an agriculture marketing policy which among others would provide thrust to infrastructure and help provide facilities to farmers to take their produce directly to the retailers by eliminating middlemen …
GAIBANDHA, Jun 23 (BSS): Crops cultivation pattern is being changed in the district through turning two-crop land into three and four crops one gradually that helps the growers earn more benefit apart from adaptation to a changing climatic condition. Bangladesh is one of the worst climate change affected countries and …
A study published by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in 2004 had warned the government against the “destruction of traditional tribal agriculture that ensured food security to the tribespeople in the Attappady Hills.” The study, titled ‘Withering Valli: Alienation, degradation and enslavement of tribal women in Attappady’, by Mariamma …
Agricultural scientists in Bangladesh are guiding farmers to address global warming that poses serious threat to food production in the country in the coming decades, officials at the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) said. The country has maintained an average production of some 34 million tonnes of rice, the staple over …
Genetic modification in agriculture involves the release of modified living organisms into the open environment. It is a technology which is at present imprecise, potentially hazardous and irreversible. This booklet presents a brief overview of why genetically modified foods and crops are a matter of serious concern to people all …
Mangiana (Sirsa), May 21: Israel will run two training courses every year for progressive farmers from Haryana. In these courses, the farmers will learn modern techniques for increasing their income from farming. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Ambassador of Israel in India Alon Ushpiz announced this after inaugurating the …
A pilot scheme to ensure a stable income for farmers in the long run is to be implemented in Villupuram district at a cost of Rs 15 crore. Agriculture Minister S. Damodaran told the Assembly on Friday that the plan envisaged integration of schemes of various departments and financial institutions …
The government has announced its intention to promote roof-top vegetable gardens across the State. This is to be achieved through the provision of do-it-yourself kits and technical support. This was among the announcements made by Agriculture Minister S Damodaran after his reply to the Assembly on the demand for grants …
A silent revolution is changing agriculture in Karnataka. Boosted by micronutrients, a new scheme is nourishing the soil, the food, and the farmer. The scheme — Bhoo Chetana (soil revitalisation) — was started in 2009 by the Karnataka government in coordination with the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics …
The Union Budget sought to consolidate the "remarkable progress" achieved in government's efforts to extend green revolution to eastern India by deciding to continue with the Rs 1,000-crore support. Finance Minister P Chidambaram made a fresh allocation of Rs 500 crore for crop diversification in Northwest India to offset the …
The Budget has provided ample resources for farmers and the farm sector even in a year of fiscal blight. The finance minister announced an allocation of Rs 27,049 crore to the agriculture ministry, an increase of 22% over the revised estimates for the current year. This includes Rs 9,954 crore …
The Punjab Government’s proposal to the Centre seeking Rs 5,300 crore for diversification in the agriculture sector has failed to generate any response. Last year, the Centre had conveyed to the state government to stop growing paddy as most of the rice consuming states have become self-sufficient. Following the Centre’s …
The New Zealand Government yesterday expressed a desire to set up joint ventures with Punjab in various sectors, including industry, agriculture and milk processing. New Zealand Minister for Primary Industries David Carter said this during an interaction with Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and his Cabinet colleagues. Leading a …
“Any need, any time” commission agents claim the Government cannot do without them, Food Corporation of India or not Even before anyone from the visiting Press team could open the floor for conversation, a battery of arhtiyas (commission agents) at the main mandi here started off: “ Hamara challenge hai …
