Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh is considered as the backward region in agriculture owing to uncertainty of monsoon. The region is facing crisis due to drought for a long time. Despite all these problems, the farmer Chitranjan Chourasia of village Niwari has set an example for other farmers by performing excellently in organic farming. Chitranjan […]
It was a dream cherished for the National Service Scheme volunteers at the Mar Thoma College in Thiruvalla to reap the harvest of their three months toil to organically cultivate vegetables in a 1.25-acre leased land adjoining the college campus on Tuesday. The vegetable harvest at the students farmland was launched by none other than […]
NEW DELHI: The agriculture ministry is discussing a proposal to help organic farmers organisations tie up with e-commerce companies with state government help, according to a senior official. In the absence of a dedicated marketing channel in the country for certified organic farm produce cultivation of which is thinly distributed across the country the proposal […]
KOCHI: There have been several initiatives to promote organic farming at schools, but these projects often fall short when it comes to sustainability. Naipunnya Public School, Thrikkakara, has figured a way to overcome this crisis. Here, the school auctions produce of its terrace farming among teachers and reinvest the earning back into farming.
How can farmers earn extra income in a limited space through organic means? Pragnesh Patel, an MBA graduate who became a farmer, has come up with a fantastic solution mushrooms. His small 18 x 45-foot mushroom shed is producing 700 kilos of oyster mushrooms every four months, earning him an extra Rs 4.2 lakh per […]
SHIMLA: Researchers and students in farm universities in the state will no longer be able get the doctorate or higher degrees on the basis of abstract and survey-based research with no link to the issues concerning the farmers on field. Governor Acharya Devvrat, who is Chancellor of Dr Y S Parmar University for Horticulture and […]
Neeraj Dhanda would have remained a software engineer all his life had he not visited the VNR nursery in Raipur, where he saw the Jumbo guava for the first time. Neeraj was born in a farmers family in Sangatpura village of Jind district in Haryana. Although no one in his family wanted him to become […]
Sweet potato is the new avocado. It is nutrient-dense, good for the gut and much lighter on the pocket when compared to the latter. And so the indigenous shakkarkandi which we have grown up eating during winters as a spicy, salty, lemony street-side snack, will be replacing yam as part of a traditional thanksgiving dinner […]
Dehradun December 1, 2017 Crop varieties have been selected and reproduced over thousands of years by farmers, creating great diversity. India, for example, used to have 200,000 varieties of rice. Seeds were kept each year for replanting and exchanging in what was a free or low-cost system for many farmers. After the end of World […]
The book is a delight for organic farmers and gardeners who are eager to work with traditional vegetable varieties. Heavily illustrated with gorgeous colour photographs, the comprehensive text contains an extensive directory of traditional as well as rare and unusual vegetables. Each profile contains a listing of traditional bred vegetable diversity and demonstrates how to […]