Mysuru, July 7, 2015 Calls are pouring into the farmers’ helpline set up at the office of the Joint Director of Agriculture. Over 130 farmers have called the helpline in the last five days and sought remedies for their problems. The Agriculture Department at the behest of Deputy Commissioner C. Shikha had setup the helpline […]
Mandya, July 7, 2015 Two distressed sugarcane growers in the district destroyed their standing crop on Monday, as the sugar mills were delaying buying their produce. While Kulle Gowda set his sugarcane crop ablaze at Bevinahalli on the outskirts of Mandya, Umesh destroyed his crop using a tractor at Uppinakere in Maddur taluk.
Hassan, July 7, 2015 A farmer reportedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide at Kuruvanka village in Channarayapatna taluk on Monday night.
BELAGAVI, July 7, 2015 Vijaykumar Patil One more debt-ridden farmer, Parasappa Yallappa Sampagavi (35), committed suicide by consuming pesticide at his native Ganeshwadi in Gokak, which is also the home taluk of Small Scale Industries and district in-charge Minister Satish L. Jarkiholi, on Sunday evening.
The 2nd National Workshop on Panchagavya is being organised at APIIIT in Basara, Adilabad district, Telangana. This is 190 kms from Hyderabad. On 26th and 27th July 2015, 11 am to 5 pm. While I do not have the name stored in my phone against this number, this is an SMS I received from 08186037618.
“Greenpeace India and its members have made several defamatory statements against the tea industry as well as pesticides industry in the defamatory report. These remarks are highly defamatory to the manufacturers and marketers of pesticides in India who have suffered loss of reputation amongst their buyers, distributors and the public at large,” the complaint said.
Sangamesh Menasinakai, TNN | Jul 6, 2015 HUBBALLI: The Dr Gangubai Hangal Gurukul in Hubballi has gone organic, growing vegetables and fruits in its garden space. The students and staff tend to the kitchen garden spread over one gunta, helping the Gurukul canteen achieve about 80% self-dependency in the requirement of veggies, sourcing lady’s finger, […]
TNN | Jul 3, 2015 DHARWAD: The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UASD), has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University (HBAU), Daqing, China, to take up studies and research in coarse cereals organic farming.
Anju Agnihotri Chaba July 2, 2015 Amarjit Singh employing mulching in his sugarcane-urad intercropped field. After sowing turmeric around late-May/early-June, Avtar Singh covers his entire field with a 3-4 inch-thick layer of paddy straw. “I do it so that my crop and the soil get proper shade from direct sunlight,” says this farmer from Mullanpur […]