Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Nabin Kisan Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to discharge of wastewater by the municipality of Belpahar on the applicants land. The affidavit filed by the District Magistrate, Jharsuguda, May 14, …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Doubling of Farmers’ Income, 25/06/2019. In order to increase the income of farmers of the country including Bundelkhand, the Inter-ministerial Committee constituted by the Government had identified seven sources of income growth viz., improvement in crop productivity; improvement in livestock productivity; resource use efficiency …
In a first in the country, a farmer was arrested in Maharashtra for being in possession of banned herbicide-tolerant BT (HTBT) cotton seeds. The farmer, Vasant Vinayak Mule, 41, from Umrad village, was produced before the Buldhana district court on Wednesday, a day after his arrest. He was denied bail …
One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is feeding the world’s human population in a sustainable, nutritious, equitable and ethical way under a changing climate. Urgent transformations are needed that allow farmers to adapt and develop while also being climate resilient and contributing minimal emissions. This paper identifies several illustrative …
More and more farmers in Maharashtra are openly planting herbicide-tolerant (HT) cotton seeds, despite it being illegal and entails criminal punishment with a heavy fine. Videos of farmers planting HTBT cotton are going viral on social media. On Monday, activists in Wardha district of Maharashtra held a press conference inviting …
The decision will bring immediate relief to 9.8 lakh farmers across the State In a surprise move, the Karnataka government on Wednesday announced that money towards farm loan accounts, which qualify under the ambitious farm loan waiver scheme in commercial banks, would be released in one go, thus completing the …
Digital agricultural transformation through smart phones and remote-sensing services can help drive rural development and increase food production to meet the global challenge of feeding 9.1 billion people by 2050, according to a report by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The report, Digital Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Areas, bats …
Agrarian distress in India, built-up over time, has further deteriorated recently. At the height of the farm output, Indian farmers are a disappointed lot. Despite spectacular rise in agricultural production, they continue to languish in poverty. The underlying reasons for agrarian distress in India are: a) unviable agriculture; b) ineffective …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Madan Pal Singh & Others Vs Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 31/05/2019 regarding illegal stone crusher units being run near agricultural land in violation of environmental norms in District Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The NGT directs a …
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched the United Nations' Decade of Family Farming and a Global Action Plan to boost support for family farmers, particularly those in developing countries. The two UN agencies lead the implementation of the Decade of Family …
African experts on Wednesday called on farmers and investors in agribusiness to embrace technological innovations to improve efficiency of food production and eliminate hunger. The agro-trade experts told Xinhua that technology will open vast untapped potential for farmers, investors and entrepreneurs to not only define agriculture in the continent but …
Green bamboos illegally felled by a forest department allotted timber unit in Manjavadi Kanavai in Harur. The trees were felled by a timber merchant, who was allocated dried bamboo by the Forest Department Truck loads of green bamboos were illegally felled from the forest near Manjavadi Kanavai falling along the …
Vata foundation is keen on translocating the trees but has yet received a response from the government yet. Hyderabad: The process of widening the Hyderabad-Bijapur highway roads has put around 950 fully-grown banyan trees under threat. The road, which currently comprises two lanes, is being extended to accommodate four lanes. …
Stubble burning creates a huge environmental problem and farmers of Punjab are aware of it but still resort to this practice, saying their is no viable alternative available. Now, an innovative experiment aimed at creating a new market for rice straw by converting this waste material as an energy feeder …
Trichy: After banning the use of carbide stones in artificially ripening mangoes, the food safety and drug administration department is now focussing on using ethylene powder to ripen the fruit. The department has also prepared a standard operating procedure for the traders to use the powder for ripening. While natural …
This report assesses and identifies solutions with special relevance for smallholder farmers: DRR good practices that work at farm-level and which, with small investments, can have a significant positive impact on the resilience of their livelihoods. It evaluates the cost-effectiveness and socio-ecological suitability of different specific DRR interventions, with the …
This report assesses and identifies solutions with special relevance for smallholder farmers: DRR good practices that work at farm-level and which, with small investments, can have a significant positive impact on the resilience of their livelihoods. It evaluates the cost-effectiveness and socio-ecological suitability of different specific DRR interventions, with the …
Mapping and monitoring of paddy cultivation areas is essential for making effective targeting strategies for the spread of new technologies, sustainable crop management and diversification options among rice growing farmers. Recently scientists have developed high resolution seasonal maps for Northeast India and Bangladesh to study cloud-prone rice paddy cultivation regions …
According to Bij Adhikar Manch (BAM), Gujarat government's deal with the US multinational company's Indian arm PepsiCo India Holdings was unacceptable to the growers as the same compromised their freedom of growing seeds and ignored the law of the land. Slamming the Gujarat government’s stand on the issue of legal …
Joseph Irungu, a dairy farmer in Kiambu County, planted brachiaria grass as soon as the rains started in Kenya two weeks ago after a lengthy delay. The farmer, as many others across the east African nation, planted urgently, having been warned by the Meteorological Department that the rains may not …
Between 2011 and 2017, CCAFS West Africa piloted how the dissemination of climate information services (CIS) to farmers in its climate-smart village sites (Lawra and Jirapa) in Ghana could help them avert risks associated with climate change and variability. The pilot was executed with 1000 profiled and geo-referenced farmers (33% …
