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, …
An experiment at the M B Gurudev School in the Doddaballapur taluk has proved beneficial for farmers. An eco-toilet, built in collaboration with Mythi Sarva Seva Samithi
on may 12, Syngenta South Africa Ltd, a subsidiary of the Swiss agrochemical Syngenta, made public its application with the South African authorities for allowing import of its genetically modified (gm) maize, Event 3,272, for use in the production of ethanol. This is the first gm application for commercial approval …
if it were not bad enough that farmers have to take their lives before the government sits up and takes notice that something is seriously wrong, we now have a cruel farce on our hands. Prime minister Manmohan Singh went to Maharashtra's Vidarbha district where heavily indebted cotton farmers have …
the United Progressive Alliance government has recently announced a moratorium on disinvestment in public sector units. That's bad news for supporters of neo-liberal economics. The media has gone into a tizzy. Cassandras are at work overtime predicting a sharp fall in "economic growth'. The country's fourth estate
Four decades of misery and scores of suicides later, Vidarbha had a high-profile visitor who wanted to provide the healing touch. Yet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Rs.3,750-crore package failed to soothe farmers from eastern Maharashtra, who are bitter about being discriminated against. Public anger has come to a boil against …
Indian agriculture is at a crossroads. To make agriculture viable and profitable, the thrust should be to improve the situation of poor farmers and not just powerful farmers owning hundreds of hectares, in whose fields the so-called green revolution took place. The green revolution promised much. But today it's caught …
In June this year, the government revoked a proposal for giving fertiliser subsidies to farmers instead of giving payouts to fertiliser manufacturers directly, which is the prevailing practice. The department of fertilisers, Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers (mocf) had constituted a committee in 2000 under the chairmanship of economist …
the west Bengal government's proposal to acquire over 15,000 hectares (ha) of land for nine industrial and infrastructure projects has created fissures within the ruling Left Front. Farmers who stand to lose land are not too impressed either. The state government had passed the proposal on March 31 and plans …
It seems that the people who matter in this country have a simple enough formula for life and liberty. We should open up the market, create opportunity for the organised industry, mix and stir, and then the work will be done. They will tell you that this will mean taking …
radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and infertility among villagers and livestock. Senator Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari said tonnes of contaminated waste from uranium processing had been dumped outside abandoned mines …
The business of food is not restricted to processed food. Today, Indian homes increasingly buy processed or packaged cereals and processed edible oils to cook food. Several steps have been added in the journey from the field to the plate. The farmer, the only producer earlier, is today seen as …
the prime minister's Trade and Economic Relations Committee (terc) has , recently, given the green light for the implementation of the free trade agreement (fta) with the Association of South East Asian Nations (asean) from January 1, 2007. The Indo- asean free trade agreement is the biggest trade pact India …
Indian agriculture is coming free of the traditional mandis, with the spread of credit to farmers, involvement of the corporate sector and futures commodity exchanges Indian agriculture is once again on the threshold of vast changes that could transform the nature of agricultural operations in the country over the next …
The India Meteorological Department (imd) has predicted that the southwest monsoon for 2006 will be below normal. The June-September rainfall is estimated at about 830 millimetres (mm), instead of the normal 890 mm. imd also says there is a chance that the rainfall will be below 800 mm. If that …
The agriculture minister told parliament last week that 100,000 farmers had committed suicide from 1998 to 2003, a period for which his government had data. This means 45 farmers killed themselves each day across the country. There is now information that suicides may be on the increase. In the Vidarbha …
Laxma Jarpula, farmer, hasn’t met agriculture scientists who say India’s food security and agricultural production rely heavily on pesticides. Three years ago, he decided to risk his cotton crop with pests, rather than pesticides. “I’d put the insects in the pesticides, and they wouldn’t die. The more pesticide I used, …
Maharashtra government has recently passed the controversial bill amending the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 1963. The amendment has paved way for contract farming in the state, which, the government claims, will boost the food processing industry and increase export of agricultural produce. Addressing doubts raised by …
on april10, 2006, the Orissa Assembly gave its consent for contract farming in the state. This was to comply with the Centre's April 2005 ultimatum for amending its agricultural marketing act on the lines of model legislation
In January 2006, two farmers of Alur village in Chamaranjanagar of Karnataka won an unprecedented consumer case, in which water supply authorities were held guilty of negligent services in providing dam water to consumers. The duo was awarded very meager compensation for their losses , but it proved to be …
