A new variety of highly productive banana plants will be distributed to farmers starting next month in a bid to improve banana production and fight disease in one of the priority crops in the country. The move, under the government's seven year programme which will come to an end in …
GOAL, a leading NGO of Golaghat district, in association with Horticulture dept of Assam Agriculture University (AAU), Jorhat organised several training programmes on banana cultivation at different places on the outskirts of Dergaon.After holding the programmes at Disoi, Danichapori, etc., the programme was organised at Dadhara Doingia gaon, Kakodonga and …
The longest-running trade dispute of the modern era came to a close last night when parties from Europe, Latin America, the US, the Caribbean and Africa initialled a treaty in Geneva to end the so-called banana wars. The dispute pre-dated the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995, outlasted …
The state government will promote vegetable and banana farming in a big way to help small and marginal farmers to augment their income. This was stated by chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission GS Kalkat, who was in the city to attend a function. He said after a research, …
BHUBANESWAR: If things go as planned, Orissa prisons may show the way in organic farming. In fact, the open air jail at Jamujhari, which boasts of 111 acre farm land, already is into organic farming. To give a boost to the initiatives, some top officials of the Agricultural and Processed …
Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year. Barve, along with 100-odd farmers of the tehsil, is associated with a campaign initiated by Shivneri Agriculture Graduates
In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted parts of the fruit's plant, which are usually thrown away as waste, into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values. Under a project, value chain, on utilisation of …
Banana is a common horticultural crop in the Sunderbans region though there are hardly any cultivation of proven commercial elite varieties that can yield much higher incomes per unit of area under the crop. Keeping in mind the promise that banana holds as a cash generating crop for the Sunderbans …
VIEW FINDER NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island"s southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide …
In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted those parts of the fruit's plant which are usually thrown away as waste into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values. Banana plant Under a project 'A value …
This report presents a case study of a UNDP GEF Small Grant Project entitled "Mitigation of the effects of the carbon dioxide and other GHG by controlling slash and burn practices," which was conducted in Nepal and which received the gold prize in the 2008 Ryutaro Hashimoto Asia-Pacific Forum for …
The government has allocated 35,000 acres of land in the Trincomalee District for Banana cultivation to a private company, while the people in the area don
The overall objective of the paper is to assess the post-harvest losses in major fruits both in physical and economic terms at different stages of handling and to develop strategies to reduce these losses. The specific objectives are: (i) to identify the major channels and practices of packing and transport …
MIRZA: The success story of banana cultivation and the huge plot of land under banana by a youth of Dhangargaon area in Kamrup district has become a source of inspiration for his fellow villagers. In an interaction with this correspondent the 27-yr-old hard working youth, Bhagirath Rabha expressed his satisfaction …
Shiral (Solapur) : Two months ago, Kailash Thate, a young man with 10 acres of farmland close to the Ujjani dam, set up an agro-processing unit to extract fibres from banana stems that is used to manufacture paper. Thate had visited an agro-business convention where participants were encouraged to take …
Some traders in Rajshahi allegedly use chemicals or employ kerosene stove method for quick ripening of green bananas, posing threats to public health. According to the traders, they buy green bananas from banana orchards in Baneshwar, Nawhata, Mohanpur, Bargachi and Puthia areas of Rajshahi, and the neighbouring districts and store …
For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country - it is no mean achievement that it is now growing its own bananas and that too king-size. What started as a small attempt in some of the …
Side effects of banana: A legal battle between banana farmers and environmentalists has reached the Philippines Supreme Court. Residents from Davao city have filed a petition to uphold a March 2007 ban on aerial spraying of fungicide on banana plantations. The group claims the spraying has led to various health …
power of the big Banana: A court of appeals in the Philippines recently sided with the banana growers and exporters of the country and allowed the continuation of aerial spraying of pesticides. The city government of Davao had banned aerial spraying of pesticides saying aerial spraying of toxic chemicals harms …
