Vizag: As the people are growing conscious about maintaining a healthy diet, the millet seem to have taken to the charts at a decent number of households and the new trend is obvious for the increasing footfalls at the store that are selling millets within the city. The traders at the MVP Rythu Bazaar and […]
Source: The Hans India
C Pandian, a farmer from the Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu, walks through his 10-acre land, all covered in grass. This 5-feet-tall Vetiver grass that spans all over his farm will fetch him profits in lakhs. Inspired by stories like his, several people are quitting their cushy jobs to return to their villages and take […]
Source: The Better India
Nestled amidst the foothills of Morni Hills near Panchkula, the quaint little Aanandaa Permaculture Farm was flagged off by a husband-wife duo in 2010 for a simple purpose—to encourage urban folk get back in touch with nature. But unlike the various other ‘retreats’ across the country, this is no fancy hotel with a sprinkling of […]
Source: The Better India
In eastern Himalayas’ Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP), eye-catching Wight’s rhododendron shrubs and graceful firs, frame the upper limits of the sub-alpine forests. Beyond this boundary of closed canopy forests, called timberline, the climate is too harsh for trees to grow. But as the climate warms, globally, studies have documented an elevational upwards expansion of the […]
Source: Mongabay
India’s GDP growth of 6.5per cent in 2017 was strong despite challenges like the implementation of GST. The forecast for GDP growth in FY2019 is predicted to be more than 7per cent. This will certainly improve the performance of different industries like Organic Foods, Pharmaceuticals and FMCG. According to TechSci Research report, Global organic food […]
Source: Enterpreneur
Satyajit and Ajinka Hange grew up alternating between two very different worlds. One was their Anglo-Indian boarding school in Pune city, and the other was their rural agrarian family, some 150 km away in Indapur taluka’s Bhodani village, where their father toiled in the fields to ensure they got the best education. From kindergarten to […]
Source: The Better India
India’s agriculture exports will have to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 25% over the next 3 years to achieve the target of doubling farm export by 2022, which is crucial to the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. The NDA government is facing a daunting task to meet Prime Minister Narendra […]
Source: The Financial Express
For Anju Agarwal, the love for gardening started right from her childhood days, as she grew up seeing her parents working in the kitchen garden of their bungalow in Mumbai. Speaking to The Better India, she says, “There was never a need for us to purchase vegetables from the market as my parents grew anything […]
Source: The Better India
Guntur: AP CM Chandrababu Naidu inaugurate ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’ training program organized at Bible Mission Ground in Guntur. Speaking at the event Naidu said that the state has achieved 10.52 percent of GDP growth in last four and a half years. In order to generate wealth, there is a high need for implementing development […]
Source: The Hans India
R “Nel” Jayaraman, who revived over 174 traditional paddy seed varieties in Tamil Nadu, died in Chennai on Thursday. He was 54 and is survived by wife and a son. Jayaraman began his journey to revive lost seeds in 2004 with his mentor late Nammalvar, a pioneer of organic farming, by collecting over a dozen […]
Source: The Financial Express
Muthukrishnan remembers the time when he was a young boy who used to bring paddy seedlings from their nursery in Kumbakonam to his grandmother, who lived in the coastal town of Tharangambadi. He would help his grandmother plant them on her farm, which was on the coast of Bay of Bengal at a half kilometre […]
Source: Your Story
Since the inception of inorganic fertilizers and other farm chemicals which accompanied the use of machines in commercial farming, most commercial and wealthy farmers have abandoned the natural and ecofriendly way of food production and seamlessly adopted inorganic farming methods which are commonly perceived as being more economically viable in commercial scale and also enhance […]
Source: The Nigerian Voice
The organic food tsunami came about a decade ago, washing over our lives completely. From the humble cucumber to the exotic avocado, from pulses to salad leaves to spices to rice, every single food item we used to buy from the grocers suddenly had an organic cousin sitting next to it on the shelves – […]
Source: The Weather Company
Imagine you are a small scale rain-fed farmer. This means that you have less than 2 acres of land, and rely solely on the monsoon to water the crop. Traditionally you have been growing chemical dependent ground nut like all the other farmers around you, but this season you have diversified to growing intrinsically organic […]
From the times immemorial, historians described India as a land of milk and honey as it is blessed with innumerable natural resources. Dubbed as ‘Annapoorna(The food bowl of India) Andhra Pradesh is a major producer of rice, wheat, Sugar Cane, Cotton, Maize, pulses, spices, tobacco and chilly. There is no dearth for perennial rivers like […]
Source: The Hans India
Over 30 women have gathered to deliver milk here: a daily rendezvous for this clique belonging to a women-run dairy co-operative, in the Sundarbans delta in south Asia, that is inching its way to becoming 100 percent organic. In the bucolic settings of the Chowrangi village in West Bengal, these empowered women milk producers ranging […]
Source: Mongabay
More attention is being given to adopt the methods of organic farming. Not only Indians but people from abroad are also interested in this method of farming. That’s why MaungMaung Tin, who is an industrialist, businessman, and farmer from Myanmar, came to India this week, and visited the “Organic Model Farms” developed by Suminter India Organics […]
Source: Krishi Jagran
Government of India is giving more priority for welfare of the farmers. In this regard it is implementing several farmers welfare schemes to revitalize agriculture sector and to improve their economic conditions. Therefore, the government has rolled out new initiatives, schemes, programmes and plans to benefit all the farmers.
Source: Krishi Jagran
Farmers of Chudzom gewog in Sarpang are learning the basic and rightful implementation of the technique of organic farming. Chudzom is one of the most remote villages of Southern Bhutan , where most of the farmers have been emphasising on cardamom as the main cash crop. Many farmers have even converted their kitchen garden into […]
Source: Kuense
As we know waste decomposer has been in use by our farmer friends since long but still there are problems in its availability. Farmers don’t know from where to get these waste decomposers. With reference to the information given on Krishi Jagran web portal regarding our previous article on waste decomposer, we would be keen to help our farmer friends regarding its […]
Source: Krishi Jagran
Dhaka is among the most densely populated city having thousands of buildings for habitation. Residents can create well-planned garden in the rooftop, MA Sobhan says as he sees a huge opportunity to turn the rooftop gardens into earning sources for urban people. Citing the Cuban experience, he says that Cuba has become the pioneer of […]
Source: NewAge
There was a time when our agriculture scientists as well as farmers believed that with the invention of various types of chemical pesticides they had overcome the problem of pests or bugs in crops. Undoubtedly the initial success was marvelous and soon people began to put their whole trust solely on chemical pesticides and began […]
Source: Krishi Jagran
Japan and South Korea have evinced interest in importing organic vegetables, food grains and medicinal plants grown in Sikkim, which if successful, would add yet another feather to the cap of the Himalayan state’s Organic Mission. Business delegations of the far eastern countries have already visited the state and held discussions with officials of the […]
Source: The Telegraph
The Maoswm Farmers’ Club at Sonapara Karigaon in Kokrajhar district has set an example in the district for other farmers through organic farming. The 10-member Maoswm Farmer’s Club, Sonapara cultivates chilly, ladies fingers, brinjal and other vegetables in a plot of six-and-half bighas of land. They have been selling their products in Kokrajhar town, Balajan Tinali, Karigaon […]
Source: NorthEast Now
Department of Agriculture organized a function to felicitate the farmers of Bangund hamlet which was declared first model Organic vegetable village in the State in 2017. Deputy Commissioner Pulwama, G M Dar was the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, DDC said that Organic farming is evolving in all the countries around the world and […]
Source: The Northlines