S. HARPAL SINGH, The Hindu | February 24, 2013 Use of organic manure like cattle dung by a large section of tribal farmers in Adilabad district will soon be a thing of the past going by the current trend. An ever increasing number of aboriginal farmers prefer to sell huge quantities of indigenously produced dung […]
Published: Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013, 0:10 IST Place: Patna Bihar’s farmers have done it again. A farmer from Sohdih village of Bihar’s Nalanda district has set a new world record in potato production through organic farming this year. The potato farmer, Rakesh Kumar, has harvested 108.8 tonnes of potato per hectare and set a new world record […]
Kavita Srivastava: February 19, 2013 By arguing that GM crops are essential to food security, the Government seeks to conceal the underlying reality. The recent affidavit filed by the Ministry of Agriculture in the Supreme Court arguing that if India does not walk the path of (genetically modified) GM food, then it will starve, gives […]
By shunning all but organic farming techniques, the Himalayan state will cement its status as a paradigm of sustainability Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own animals and farm waste for fertilisers. But rather than […]
NEW DELHI, FEB 19: Food rights organisations, under the aegis of the Right to Food Campaign (RFC), have written to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar urging him to tackle food security in more ‘fundamental ways’ rather than link it with genetically modified (GM) crops. At a press conference here on Tuesday, RFC released the letter signed by […]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013 On the occasion of the 77th birth anniversary of the iconic farmers’ leader Prof. M.D. Nanjundaswamy, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) organized a series of events from the 13th to the 16th Feb to commemorate his memory. The North and South Indian farmers movements jointly inaugurated their […]
INDIA, Updated Feb 18, 2013 at 10:29am IST Samia Kapoor, CNN-IBN New Delhi: A young entrepreneur, Ashmeet Kapoor’s business venture ‘I say organic’ is the bridge between farmers and consumers of organic produce. His initiative delivers fresh organic veggies at the doorstep and also helps more than 50 farmers get a better price. 27-year-old Delhi boy, Ashmeet […]
ReStore (restore.org.in) is perhaps the best known organic food shop in chennai. It is run by an amazing bunch of volunteers with deep commitment to the organic farming movement. They have identified and come up with two significant problems in organic food marketing in urban India. How do you supply a basket of products to […]
NATIONAL » TAMIL NADU CHENNAI, February 17, 2013 Panchagavya, an organic manure, helps to achieve good yield Farmers of Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district have turned away from using chemical fertilizers to get good yield despite acute water shortage, monsoon failure and power cuts prevailing in the State. Though Tirunelveli is known for its temples and halwa, about 45 […]
Feb 15, 2013, 06.38AM IST TNN[ Abhilash Botekar ] NASHIK: The city will now have more outlets with organic produce, after a policy decision taken by the state government to encourage organic farming. The state government has decided to promote organic lifestyle and has promised various measures to promote the use of genetically non-modified seeds, providing cold storage, […]