Special Correspondent He says Karnataka has great potential for organic farming Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday vowed to develop Bangalore as Asia’s organic capital and Karnataka as India’s organic hub. Inaugurating the fourth edition of the three-day international organic trade fair titled BioFach India, being jointly organised by the Nuernberg Messe of Germany, International […]
B.S. Satish Kumar At a time when the area under organic cultivation in the country is yet to cross 1 per cent of the total agricultural land, the small hilly State of Sikkim has stolen the show as its entire agriculture is set to go organic by 2015. The State has only around 60,000 hectares […]
TNN Nov 28, 2012, 06.04AM IST ALLAHABAD: The pilot project of the district horticulture department to cultivate Allahabadi ‘Surkha’, also known as ‘apple-colour’, and Allahabadi Safeda varieties of guava through organic farming has yielded desired results in several blocks of the district. In fact, guava cultivation is taken up on around 1,000 hectare of land […]
J. Venkatesan The Joint Expert Committee has informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that to exhaust the available stocks of the raw material, manufacture and use of endosulfan pesticide (which has now been banned) may be permitted for a period of two years. In its report submitted before a Bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and […]
By, Ashok Gulati and Surbhi Jain It has never happened since Independence. May be not even in the last 1,000 years what happened during October 2011-September 2012. India exported 10 million tons of rice, valued at around $6 billion, becoming the largest exporter of rice, replacing Thailand and Vietnam, generally the two largest exporters of […]
Bangalore, Nov 20: BioFach India, an offshoot of World Organic Trade Fair BioFach in Nurnberg, plans to hold its organic fair in Bangalore from November 29 to December 1. The fourth edition of BioFach India 2012 by Nuremberg Messe is supported by the Karnataka Department of Agriculture and the International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture […]
BioFach India, an offshoot of World Organic Trade Fair BioFach, Nurnberg, will organize an organic fair at Palace Grounds from November 29 to December 1. The fourth edition of BioFach India 2012 is expected to attract visitors from production, manufacturing, trade and services and it is the single largest platform where stake-holders in the organic […]
International multi-brand retail chains have all pushed their India plans to 2013, at least until after Christmas and New Year holidays, it is learnt. The September euphoria, after the Cabinet cleared up to 51 per cent FDI (foreign direct investment) in multi-brand retail, is giving way to doubt. Foreign players are expected to take critical […]
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, Nov 20, 2012, DHNS: The State government has kicked up a row by transferring the deputy conservator of forests (DCF) probing the controversy of bio-piracy, involving Mahyco and University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad. Another officer has refused to be a complainant, thus violating the Biodiversity norms. Y Chakrapani, a second […]
Sustainable farming: The farmer should produce his own seed, fertiliser and other inputs at the local level, and should not depend on external market forces and technologies. VISAKHAPATNAM, NOV 16: Food security and sustainable farming – buzz words doing the rounds in elite circles – are not enough and it is time to move beyond […]