In line with the motto of “Eat Mindful. Shop Artisanal. Raise Awareness”, AnnaMaya at Andaz Delhi has introduced the Market Edition of its popular Lazy Sunday Breakfast where you can shop from a wide variety of fresh seafood, organic vegetables and healthy food grains, thoughtfully sourced for you, to help you eat well even at […]
Source: Hungry Forever
For all those fitness freaks, and clean eating food lovers, Suzette opened its organic restaurant with a new Kitchen Garden in Juhu. The most awaited organic retro-salad bar headed by Antonia Achache, Jeremie Sabbagh, and Pierre Labail, set up an exclusive farmer’s market for the opening weekend. Kitchen Garden’s homegrown organic farm, managed by Offering Farms, the latter […]
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SRINAGAR — The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan Saturday termed Agriculture, Horticulture and Tourism sectors as the backbone of State’s economy. The Divisional Commissioner made these remarks while inaugurating the mega Kisan Mela 2019 in the premises of Agriculture Complex, Lal Mandi. The mela was organized by the department of Agriculture under ATMA scheme. On […]
Source: Kashmir Observer
White Organic Agro Ltd will export 1280 MT of Indian White Steam Rice to Rebat Al Houda Trading Est, Saudi Arabia.The management has again successfully bagged a direct exports contract in the international market and this would help widen the horizon into the vast scalable business of Organic Rice internationally. In the indirect farming business, […]
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He is 91-years-old but retired Honorary Army Captain Lekh Raj Sharma is driven by an unparalleled passion that many a youth may find difficult to replicate. Every week, he travels four hours one way from Chandigarh to his native village of Nari in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district. Why? To spend three days a week overlooking […]
Source: The Better India
The urban privileged section of the population might not feel any direct implication of farmer suicides, but the truth is that it wreaks havoc in the lives of our cultivators and their families. Amid the prevailing anguish, depression and helplessness, a Telangana psychologist and her team are instilling hope in these distressed souls and saving […]
Source: The Logical Indian
Until one and a half years ago, Devidas Lonkar from Chakan town of Pune district had to depend on local fertiliser and pesticide sellers to resolve diseases and fungal issues in his crops. Hailing from an agrarian background, the 26-year-old farmer grows sugarcane, cabbage, cauliflower as well as beetroot and groundnuts across a 7-acre plot. […]
Source: The Better India
New Delhi: At a day-long National Conclave on Food organized here today by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the New Delhi-based research and advocacy think tank, about 50 experts from across the country deliberated upon pressing issues related to the way food is produced and promoted in the country and its linkages with the […]
Source: CSE India
A National seminar held at B.P. Pal Auditorium at I.A.R.I. with group of farmers from M.P., Haryana and U.P was organized by National Horticulture Research & Development Foundation, New Delhi in collaboration with Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-IARI, Pusa on 11th and 12th March, 2019 under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture, Dept. of Agriculture, Co-op. & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers […]
Source: Krishi Jagran
Babulal Dahiya of Pithorabad village in Satna District of Madhya Pradesh has been conserving 125 Folk Rice Varieties as well as a number of indigenous varieties of Wheat, Barley, Millets etc. Babulal ji is an accomplished poet & author of a number of books on Folk History of Baghelkhand; many of his books are now […]
Source: Prokerela.com
The aim of the Modi Government is to diagnose the problem of farmers and do an arrangement to increasing their income. Therefore, the government is not indulging them in adopt populist schemes. For example, in 2008, the slogan of agricultural debt waiver was given, but only Rs 52, 500 crore of loan was waived from […]
Source: Afternoon Voice
Approximately 650 years ago, when the inquisition of Goa by the Portuguese led to mass conversions, a huge group of people fled the state in rickety boats, hiding in gigantic cooking vessels. They settled in the coastal areas of Kerala. AV Purushothama Kamath’s ancestors were among this group, and when he was a child, his mother […]
Source: The Better India
Sangrur: It is difficult to imagine Jasmine Khan’s pain and agony at losing her 14-month-old son in 2016. Living in a two-room concrete house in a labyrinth of bylanes in Handiaya village of Barnala district in Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency, she wells up every time Bilal intrudes on her thoughts, no matter that it has […]
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Kamal Singh and his wife inspect a ber fruit plant at their organic farm in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. The couple has collaborated with Lupin Human Welfare and Research Foundation to convert their six-acre farm in Bharatpur into a model integrated agriculture development project. The idea is to showcase to the farmers in the area how they […]
Source: The Hindu
How do we eat safe, pesticide-free food? Sangita Sharma, fondly called the Jewel of Karnataka in farming circles, arrived at the source of the issue: seed. She founded Annadana, a movement to promote the use of non-hybrid, non-GMO seeds, bringing relief to farmers who had become reliant on MNCs for chemically-enhanced, expensive seed. Over the […]
Source: The Deccan Chronicle
Fifty-two-year-old Trinity Saioo in Meghalaya has never heard of turmeric lattes that have gained a cult following in the ever-expanding list of healthy beverages. But every day, after the school she teaches in gets over, Saioo the teacher diligently tends to her farms of the ‘golden spice’ that is the core ingredient behind the latte trend. […]
Source: Mongabay
The quest to collect seeds of native plant varieties has proved to be never ending for C. Yoganathan, a farmer of Thinnakonam village, near Musiri in Tiruchirapalli district of Tamil Nadu. He started collecting the seeds in 2008 with the objective of preserving native breeds of vegetables, fruits, millets and pulses. After a decade, he […]
Source: The Hindu
Maheshwari is a former daily wage labourer in the tea estates of Kottagiri, in the Nilgiri District. While tea plantations look inviting during a holiday, there is no vacation for labourers like her. They toil on the deceptively beautiful but treacherous terrain of the estates. While the opportunities for labour are many, their wages are […]
Source: The Better India
It has been 11 years, and 73-year-old Jayachandran’s routine has not changed. He travels 675 km from his home in Chennai to his farm once every week. He spends four days working there before returning home. It was upon retiring from a 40-year-long career in the sugar industry that K. Jayachandran decided to choose a […]
Source: The Better India
Nature Organic, from Delhi, was launched by Sonia Sharma who left her Big 4 career in London and returned to India to make a difference at the grass root level. She founded Nature Organic with the sole purpose of promoting ethical, sustainable and planet friendly farming practices and produce.Nature Organic works with farmers in Kerala, […]
Source: Your Story
Pune-based brand–Cureveda– which offers premium herbal, organic and nutraceutical supplements was awarded ‘Brand of India 2019’ in the healthcare category. Giriraj Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for MSME, Dr Arun Kumar Panda, Secretary, Ministry of MSME and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.
Source: The Hitavada
Hyderabad: The Organic Agriculture Farmers urged Telangana State Government to set up an Organic Agriculture University in the state. Speaking on the occasion of inauguration of 3-day Natural and Organic Products Mela on Friday at Night Bazar at Shilparamam at Madhapur, Dinesh Dattatreya Kulkarni, All India Organising Secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh said that it […]
Source: The Hans India
BOULDER, Colo.— This year at Natural Products Expo West, innovative wellness leader Organic India showcases the latest additions to their line of organic herbal solutions with a focus on fermented adaptogens, green superfoods and three new flavors of stress relieving Tulsi herbal infusions. Organic India offers comprehensive support to wellness seekers with a versatile product line […]
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The two-day research and extension specialists’ workshop for kharif crops, organised by the Directorate of Extension Education, PAU, concluded at the Pal Auditorium here on Wednesday. On Tuesday, PAU Vice-Chancellor Dr BS Dhillon dwelled on the role of the university in empowerment in agriculture. “We have been entrusted with the responsibility of feeding the nation […]
Source: The Tribune