TUESDAY, 04 DECEMBER 2012 19:16 PNS | BHUBANESWAR The Living Farms, an organisation working to provide food sovereignty for small and marginal farmers in the State, on Monday urged the State Government to impose a ban on the sale and use of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs). “In 2011, the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the […]
Study said organic farming can raise net per capita income of farmers by 250 per cent to over Rs 15,000 in next five years Press Trust of India / Jaipur Dec 05, 2012, 17:01 IST Organic farming has the potential to generate over eight million jobs in Rajasthan in over the next five years if it […]
Prateek Walia, Hindustan Times Chandigarh, December 03, 2012 The authorities at the ongoing agrotech fair on Saturday made an attempt to educate farmers about benefits and need of organic farming. Considering the plight of farmers in Punjab, the session emphasised on how farmers could improve their situation. While experts continued to elaborate on organic farming, […]
BANGALORE, December 1, 2012 Staff Reporter To ensure smooth supply of organic products from producers to retailers in the city, the State government will initiate monthly conferences between these two important stakeholders in the sector. “These will be through videoconferencing from the State capital with retailers participating in the conference with producers at all the district […]
Saturday, December 01, 2012 08:00 IST Our Bureau, Bengaluru The burden of fertilizer subsidy, weakening of the Indian rupee and the impact of global warming, which is resulting in water scarcity, poor rainfall will now force the Union government and the state governments to mandate organic farming practices over chemical farming, said Ardhendu Sen, director, […]
Published: Friday, Nov 30, 2012, 9:59 IST By DNA Correspondent | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA Chief minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday urged the need for encouraging organic farming in the state. Speaking at the inauguration of the BioFach India 2012, the fourth international organic trade fair, Shettar said though some level of self-sufficiency has been achieved […]
By Dinesh C Sharma PUBLISHED: 21:58 GMT, 25 November 2012 | UPDATED: 23:28 GMT, 25 November 2012 Unmindful of criticism, the government is moving ahead with a controversial proposal to open the doors of the country’s most valuable biological resource – plant gene bank – to private companies for commercial exploitation. The Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) has quietly […]
TNN Nov 28, 2012, 06.04AM IST ALLAHABAD: The pilot project of the district horticulture department to cultivate Allahabadi ‘Surkha’, also known as ‘apple-colour’, and Allahabadi Safeda varieties of guava through organic farming has yielded desired results in several blocks of the district. In fact, guava cultivation is taken up on around 1,000 hectare of land in […]
Special Correspondent He says Karnataka has great potential for organic farming Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday vowed to develop Bangalore as Asia’s organic capital and Karnataka as India’s organic hub. Inaugurating the fourth edition of the three-day international organic trade fair titled BioFach India, being jointly organised by the Nuernberg Messe of Germany, International […]
B.S. Satish Kumar At a time when the area under organic cultivation in the country is yet to cross 1 per cent of the total agricultural land, the small hilly State of Sikkim has stolen the show as its entire agriculture is set to go organic by 2015. The State has only around 60,000 hectares […]