Delhi-based non-profit, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has disapproved of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)s move to make certification of organic food sold in India mandatory. It says that not only will such a move promote just the certification industry but also strike a blow to the organic farming movement […]
Source: Down To Earth
Prince Charles has warned that the very future of humanity may depend on organic farming. Speaking as he celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Soil Association in London, the heir to the throne insisted that eco-friendly practices, which had once seemed so controversial, were now backed by sound science. And he warned that they may […]
Source: Daily Mail
Chandigarh: Pal Singh, 55, a resident of Sowhna village in Patiala who grows maize and paddy, owns two acres of land. With a monthly ‘saving’ of Rs. 2,000 after selling the harvest and paying for his land lease, Mr Singh does not have enough to provide for his family. He has no money to buy […]
Source: NDTV
Farming is not something that came naturally to 65-year-old S Ranganayaki. Widowed at the age of 45, with three children to take care of, and 23 acres (9.3 hectares) of cultivable land along the Cauvery delta region, she had no choice but to take up farming. Now, with Tamil Nadu in the midst of a […]
Source: The Hindustan Times
This week in Tanzania, UNCTAD co-organized an event aimed at helping East African countries leverage the benefits of sustainable tourism and agriculture. The event called the East-African Organic Policy Forum (EAOPF) is organised as part of the United Nations Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity. The objective of the forum is to gather local […]
Source: UNCTAD
After finishing her masters in 1999, Purvi came back to India and started working for several NGOs for sustainability and development. It was in 2002 when she joined the famous Environmentalist Bina Agrawal to work on one of her research projects that Purvi happened to get her first brush with the farming community. The research […]
Source: The Better India
Spend whatever amount you may, but the rice you buy from the market will have some amount of pesticide in it. The two types of rice polished and super-polished go through multiple levels of refinement with chemicals and pesticide. On the one hand, the process drains nutritional value from the grains and on the other, […]
Source: The Times of India
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi In 1930, Dr. Pottenger conducted a study to find out more about the effects of raw versus cooked meat, as well as raw versus pasteurized milk on cats and whether they had any impact on growth and development. Nine hundred cats were studied in ten years in order to not only […]
Source: Mathrubhumi
Making chemicals-free fresh fruits and vegetables available at market prices might soundunreasonable, but this Pune-based startup is proving it can be done. From their 307 acres of land in a state infamous for droughts and farmer suicides, this one-year-old agri-tech startup (part of VTP Group) is striving to change the concept of farming. It grows […]
Source: Your Story
LUCKNOW: Gomti activists will teach farmers living along the banks of the river to practise ‘gau-adharit’ (organic) farming. Conservationists say it would serve a dual-purpose. On one hand, it will prevent chemicals used in farming from flowing into the river, while on the other, it will help stray cattle find a home. Farmers who don’t […]
Source: The Times of India
What was once a barren land is covered with the lush green cover today! Were talking about Rajasthan: the desert state of India, a state that was struggling with droughts, water scarcity and extreme climate for several centuries. Over the years, the hard-working farmers of Rajasthan scripted new success stories in agriculture. Even Rajasthan government […]
Source: Oh My India
GUWAHATI, June 17 – The Assam Government has identified 10 clusters across nine districts of Assam for implementation of the Centrally-sponsored Mission Organic Value Chain Development for the north-eastern region (MOVCD). Officials told this newspaper that the nine districts where areas having feasibility of organic farming have been selected are Golaghat, Nalbari, Kokrajhar, Kamrup Metro, […]
Source: The Assam Tribune
Noted agriculturist and inventor of Zero Budget Natural Spiritual Farming, Subhash Palekar, has been appointed as advisor by the Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to promote organic farming in the state. As part of the mandate, Palekar will be responsible for formulating agriculture related policies and look after knowledge sharing with the farmers.
Source: The Economic Times
EVEN AS the controversy over GM Mustard rages on, another row is in the offing over genetically modified (GM) crop version of jowar or sorghum, said to be the poor mans food in India as some members of a Parliamentary committee is learnt to have taken strong note of it. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on […]
Source: The Indian Express
Patna, June 16 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the main focus of the states agriculture road map is on increasing income of farmers and ensuring sustainable development of the sector. He also assured farmers of providing them minimum support price (MSP) with 50 per cent additional incentive. Kisano ki aamdani mein […]
Source: india.com
KOTTAYAM: The MG University here has launched a unique project to make the district complete literate in organic farming. The campaign was launched by water resources minister Mathew T Thomas on the university campus on Friday.
Source: The Times of India
Nel Jayaraman has some advice for farmers struggling to grow high-yielding varieties of paddy during drought: Go organic. Having switched to growing indigenous paddy in an organic manner some 15 years ago, Mr. Jayaraman said farmers need spend only a little on input costs and can get good returns on their investment if they grew […]
Source: The Hindu
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is planning a regime of labelling genetically modified (GM) foods, which do not exist in India as of now. The move comes after India’s apex regulator for GM foods, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), approved India’s first transgenic food crop GM Mustard for commercial cultivation […]
Source: DNA
BENGALURU: K Ramakrishnappa is busy through the week, monitoring his heirloom crops at his Mysuru farm and training farmers in organic farming. Meanwhile, his former colleague SV Hittalamani travels to rural pockets in Kolar, Ramanagara and Yelahanka to offer free consultation to farmers before returning to Bengaluru. “After retirement I work with farmers and help […]
Source: The Times of India
Public Sector SJVN Limited has undertaken to provide skill development training to 1,600 individuals from Himachal Pradesh as a part of Skill India Initiative of the Government of India (GoI). The youths will be given skill training in the fields of horticulture, floriculture, vegetable, mushroom farming, bee-keeping, medicinal and aromatic plants, nursery plant protection, organic […]
Source: The Statesman
Mumbai: Economist and former member of Maharashtra State Planning Board H.M. Desarda, on Tuesday termed the recently announced farm loan waiver by the State government as a necessary but not sufficient condition to deal with the problems related to agriculture. Prof. Desarda linked todays problems in agriculture to ecology and traced their origins to the […]
Source: The Hindu
BANGKOK — Thailand has set a goal to promote organic agriculture under its five-year plan by extending organic farming in the country to cover one million rai (400,000 acres) of areas in the next five years, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported. Agriculture Minister Gen Chatchai Sarikulya said that the 2017-2021 national organic agriculture development strategies […]
Source: Malaysian Digest
Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], June 13 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh would turn totally organic soon with global organic scientist Dr Nilmadhab Nanda offering progressive farmers the required mantra. Dr.Nanda, who arrived here on June 7 at the invitation of Chief Secretary Shakuntala D Gamlin and prolonged his stay, gave a presentation to state Agriculture Secretary Ajimul […]
Source: Sify.com
Acknowledging the role of farmers of tribal areas in generation and conservation of biodiversity, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that new technological innovations in agriculture must reach to the fields of tribal areas as they contributed a lot in protecting the environment. Stressing on utilisation of their knowledge of natural resources, Singh said, […]
Source: The Millennium Post
SRINAGAR: Principal Secretary Agriculture Production Department, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Friday chaired an officers meeting to review the progress on various agriculture related state and centrally sponsored schemes. He called for shifting from inorganic to organic farming and increasing of the production in vegetables. He also laid stress on increasing the Seed replacement rate of paddy, […]
Source: Kashmir Reader