November 22,2015 Uyumpok Mamang Leikai (Imphal East, Manipur): When farmers across India are struggling with weather woes and poor yields, there is one of their ilk in Manipur who has succeeded in adopting smart and eco-friendly methods of farming to ensure a satisfactory harvest every year.
This PDC is being conducted by Narsanna Koppula and Rico Zook. This 12-day course emphasizes applied permaculture and includes substantial practical sessions on permaculture farms. The course is designed according to local, seasonal, geographical and climatic conditions, so that permaculture concepts can be tied in to locally applicable practices – with particular focus on dry/ […]
22nd November 2015 Pramod Thomas Organic food is the flavour of the season and cashing in on the trope, two friends Akash Mathew and Jim George joined hands to float Farming Colors, an online platform connecting organic farms with consumers.
Nov 20, 2015 Farmers’ unions and civil society groups in Madhya Pradesh have expressed opposition against the Central government’s possible move to introduce genetically modified (GM) mustard for commercial cultivation and have warned of strong street action if the process is not stopped.
Paddy Diversity Block, Paddy Field Week and Seed savers Meeting at Wyanad This year our Paddy Diversity Block has 164 traditional varieties of Kerala paddy at the Thanal Agro-ecology Centre, Wynad. From 22nd to 27th November we are having a Rice Field Week, where hundreds of farmers, students would be visiting and learning. On 28th […]
November 18, 2015 The manner in which the Centre is going about allowing genetically modified (GM) food crops is causing serious concern. Five years after the UPA bowed to public pressure and imposed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial cropping of Bt Brinjal, the NDA government is hastening the advent of GM food crops.
November 17, 2015 Sumant Kumar is a young farmer in Darveshpura village, located remotely in the Nalanda district of India’s poorest state Bihar. He has grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land, without using any herbicides, and is leading a silent agricultural revolution in the area. In this rare feat, […]
18/11/2015 JAMMU, Nov 17: Making a strong pitch for sensitizing the farmers about the latest techniques and adoption of better agricultural practices Minister for Agriculture Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura said that aim should be to increase production on sustainable basis with reduction in cost of cultivation.
By Prabhudatta Mishra Nov 16 2015, New Delhi Sikkim will be the country’s first state to produce everything from maize and rice to orchid and ginger though organic farming starting in January next year. Prime minister Narendra Modi may declare Sikkim as an organic state in January after almost all agricultural land holdings are certified […]
SME Times News Bureau 14 Nov, 2015 In a unique endeavour, 500 women artisans, weavers and farmers from across the country come together to exhibit and sell their organic products/produce at the Dilli Haat in New Delhi on Saturday.