Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay dated 05.11.2024 dated 16/12/2024. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled "The Last Feral Horses in India" appearing in Mongabay dated November …
Director Of Agriculture, Jammu, Vinod Bala Sharma inaugurated a three-day training programme for agriculture extension officers and circle-level junior agriculture assistants at Agriculture Complex in Talab Tillo today. While inaugurating a technical session on residual effects of chemical fertiliser & pesticide, their judicious use and prevention of farming accidents, Sharma …
The Punjab Farmers Commission, which was in controversy for some observations reported on organic farming, has asked Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, to find out whether alternative sources of nutrients like green manure ensure high crop yield. Commission chairman G.S. Kalkat has written to PAU Vice- Chancellor N S Kang to …
TIRUNELVELI: Farmers have been urged to switch over to organic farming practice as it promotes soil health, biodiversity and environment. There is always a huge demand for organic farm produce in the market. As small plants take up nutrients from top layer and trees from bottom layer, maintaining fertility and …
Bhubaneswar: Activists in favour of organic farming, in a letter to the chief minister, has alleged that non-organic Bt cotton in Kalahandi and Bolangir have witnessed poor yields this year. In letters addressed to chief minister, health minister and agriculture minister, the activists of Living Farms
Tej Pratap, Vice-Chancellor of Himachal Agriculture University, feels that organic farming should be promoted among small and marginal farmers of the country. It would help improve their economy, reports Tribune Correspondent Lalit Mohan from Dharamsala Everything around him is organic. He can speak on organic farming for hours with anyone …
Organic farming is the way forward Organic farming is increasingly gaining attention from farmers as well as consumers. It is a form of agriculture that relies on crop rotation, green manure and biological pest control without the use of chemical fertilisers. Animal dung, crop residues, bio fertilisers from agro-industries and …
Demand for organic products continues to grow and outstrip the supply. How organic are these products, when they have to be transported over many miles to reach consumers? And how sustainable is organic produce, when it is grown on large farms, leaving less and less room for biodiversity? Questions like …
TIRUNELVELI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on environment for bankers, NGOs and farmers recently at Tenkasi to sensitise the stakeholders on environmental degradation and the strategies to mitigate the danger. In his inaugural address, Revenue Divisional Officer of Tenkasi, N. Shanmuganathan, stressed …
DINDIGUL: Organic farming with biodiversity must be promoted and should be provided with easy access to credit and marketing. The Seed Act 2005 and Special Economic Zone Act 2005 must be repealed with immediate effect and research of all genetically modified crops must be banned. The community control over water, …
The Annam festival held in the last week of December 2008, in Thiruvananthapuram is the first event of its kind. It is a brave attempt to bring focus to the growing concern over the present food habits in Kerala and the deleterious effects they are having on public health. Among …
Karnataka farmer paid the price for resisting a polluting distillery, sand mining In early mornings, a portly old man would sneak into the fields in Chikballapur
ALAPPUZHA: Integrated farming is fast gaining acceptance among local farmers as those ventured into it have begun to get good returns. Being promoted with organic concepts, integrated farming is slowly gaining acceptance even among those who initially shirked it. Considering Kuttanad
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa has seen it all. The livestock allergy leading to serious health ailments, including deaths in Khaprakhol of Patnagarh sub-division in Balangir district where a herd of goats was affected by Bt cotton and other incidents in KBK districts and areas in Rayagada speak volumes about the effects of …
