May 31, 2015 CHAINA, India — For two decades, Mahender Singh grew his vegetables without chemicals on his 10-acre plot of land in Pipal Mangoli, a village in southeastern Punjab. Then in 1967, an official from India’s Agriculture Department arrived in the nearby city of Patiala with a bag of chemical fertilizer, and farming in Punjab […]
May 29, 2015 The one year of Modi-led BJP government has heightened agrarian distress. Growth rate of agriculture has drastically fallen from 3.7 per cent in 2014 to merely 1.1 per cent in this period. Farmer suicides touched new heights. Every promise made to the farmers has been broken.
May 28, 2015 RAIPUR: In a bid to promote organic farming in the state, the Chhattisgarh government plans to prepare a roadmap by the end of this year.
May 27, 2015, 06 PATNA: The government will “abide by Supreme Court directions” on allowing Genetically Modified crops in the country, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singhtoday said while clarifying Centre’s stand on the controversial issue.
UdaipurTimes Team on May 24, 2015 A two day -Traditional Maize Workshop & Mela was organised by Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch (a consortium of farmers promoting traditional agriculture and seeds across the country) at Udaipur where custodian farmers from 8 states namely – Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab & Uttarakhand conserving more […]
May 24, 2015 Here’s how farmers of Uttarakhand are following a traditional method of farming called Baranaja (or twelve grains) to sustain their crops even in harsh climatic conditions.
Thursday, 21 May 2015 It all began when Vimases Charitable Trust of Vrindaban developed some homoeo organic compounds as an alternative to insecticides and pesticides. Enthused by the results in UP, the trust picked apple as its next target.
The farm, Kalpavruksha, is located in southernmost coastal Gujarat. The nearest railway station is Umergam/Umbergam, about 6 km away. On the Western Railway, it is the first station after crossing from Maharashtra into Gujarat.
The “Cocktail Effect” – Consequences Unknown The study further revealed that while the levels of any one single chemical for non-organic food eaters are typically within the safety threshold for that one chemical, there is no real testing for the cumulative or “cocktail effect” of having numerous of these chemicals in the bloodstream at any […]
Helen Briggs Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests. Fields around organic farms have more types of wild plants, providing benefits for wildlife, say scientists.