The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on July 23, 2020 has issued the draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2020 to further amend Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011. A new Regulation 2.2.2 has been …
The Prime Minister’s office (PMO) has directed the agriculture ministry to come out with a time-bound action plan to usher in a green revolution in eastern India, with a special focus on improving production of oilseeds and pulses. The PMO wants the ministry to get back within a month with …
With less than one percent of the world’s area, Nepal is home to a disproportionately large number of plant species. Yet large numbers of the population are food insecure, and hunger and malnutrition are prevalent. Statistics show that the situation has worsened during the past two decades. The worst-affected segments …
“My major work on the farm is just picking the harvest,” says Raghava with a straight face. It takes some time for the fact to sink in that this young farmer is not joking. One begins to believe him only after visiting his coconut plantation in village Mallanayakanahalli in Karnataka’s …
As India celebrates two decades of economic reform, agriculture remains a laggard despite its potential July is a month when we need to remind ourselves how reforms have changed India since 1991, from vulnerability to resilience, whether to external shocks (say, oil) or internal ones (droughts). In 2009, we witnessed …
Fatehabad: Haryana is the first state in the country to have issued soil and water health cards to its farmers after testing their soil for nutrients and micronutrients, and verifying the quality of their subsoil water. Agriculture Minister Paramvir Singh said today the state Agriculture Department had so far issued …
A field experiment was conducted during 2004-2006 taking greengram-mustard-cowpea crop sequence with greengram cv. 'SML 668' in kharif, mustard cv. 'Pusa Jaikisan' in rabi and cowpea cv. 'Pusa Komal' in summer. The objective was to study the effect of conservation tillage and crop establishment practices on performance, energy saving and …
The UN Conference on the Environment held in 1992 in Rio-de-Janeiro is a landmark in human efforts to keep our planet over blue. Twenty years after Rio, we are struggling to find a pathway of development which concurrently integrates the principles of ecology, economics, equity, ethics and employment. Green Economy …
There is a need to break yield barriers through multidimensional approch to achieve food security on a sustainable basis for the people of this country. Cooperatives can play an important role in this direction due to their proximity to farmers. The Indian Farmers' Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), since over the …
Tackle Farm Sector Problems To Curb Food Prices: Report New Delhi: For long, inflation has been known to be a tax on the poor. A new study shows just how much of a tax it has been in the last three years
In 2007-08, staring at a global food crisis, a nervous government banned export of wheat and non-basmati rice without bothering to create the space for the stocks the country would hold back. Today, with the granaries overflowing, the government is struggling rid itself of stocks that it just cannot manage. …
DROUGHT is the worst enemy of crops like chickpea which requires moderate rainfall for growth. Studies till date have focused on how dehydration changes expression of genes that code for proteins vital for the plant’s survival. But there is a dearth of studies that look at the activity of proteins …
The Government of India has announced that subsidies on fertilisers, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas will be replaced by cash transfers to end users. A close examination of the objectives of the subsidies in fertiliser and kerosene and the implications of the shift raises some challenging questions. While there is …
LUCKNOW: The production of pulses in the country has been hit by a pest called pod borer. The common pest which attacks all pulses, chick pea, pigeon pea, gram, groundnut and lentils is a cause of worry for farmers in several states. The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) has developed …
Balancing the conflicting interest of farmers, intermediaries and consumers is a tightrope walk for the Indian government even when there is price tranquility. This balancing exercise has become nightmarish in recent years with food inflation showing persistency and turbulence. These developments prompted the Cabinet Secretary to constitute an inter-ministerial group …
The problem of adulteration in food items in Delhi appears to be reaching epic proportions with analysis report of samples of pulses and spices lifted on April 19 by the Prevention of Food Adulteration department of the Delhi Government revealing that all of them were indeed adulterated. The samples had …
Admitting gross mismanagement in agriculture department, the Odisha government on Thursday said that it would set up a high-level inquiry into the supply of alleged fake seeds and pulse kits to farmers during the rabi crop season. Mismanagement in the agriculture department was admitted by its minister Damodar Rout while …
India is estimated to harvest an all-time record output of 235.88 million tonne (MT) of foodgrains in the 2010-11 crop year (ending June), courtesy the highest-ever production of wheat and pulses. Addressing the Kharif Conference here, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the third advance estimate figures available with him showed …
Plans to set up 150 farmer-producer organisations in 11 states. The government is planning to provide market linkages for farmers growing pulses as part of a programme announced in the Budget to improve their production, as scarcity of this essential item was one of the major contributors to food inflation …
Farming like any profession requires dedication, understanding, constant learning and application of new ideas and above all a desire to view it as a part of the greater ecosystem. Here is a case of a young farmer who has nurtured his farm with utmost care and sensitivity to the environment.
