IFFCO signed a MoU with Government of Sikkim on Monday with an aim to explore business opportunities in organic value chain. In the new company named SIKKIM-IFFCO, IFFCO will hold majority stake of 51% equity and the Govt of Sikkim will hold 49%. Earlier in April this year, IFFCO MD Dr US Awasthi had during […]
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved and Uttarakhand government have decided to collaborate to promote organic farming, tourism and producing medicinal herbal plants in the state. At a meeting, Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and Baba Ramdev explored the opportunities to work together in areas including establishing herbal villages, promoting consumption of cereals, and […]
The Biodynamic Association of India (BDAI)is conducting a 6-Day Workshop on Biodynamic Farmingfrom 11th September to 16th September2017 at Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu
Mahesh Kavalaga (32) has a full-time job at Cognizant Technologies in Bengaluru. Despite his well-paying job, he travels every weekend to his villageKawalaga in Gulbarga district of Karnataka. He starts his journey on Friday, does farming for two days and returns back to Bengaluru on Sunday night. After his primary education at his village, Mahesh […]
Dar es Salaam The historical background of organic agriculture in Tanzania goes back to the world history of agriculture, when people were farming more traditionally. This is to say modern organic farming still has roots from the first half of the 20th century, when there was growing reliance on non-organic methods. After the industrial revolution […]
Jeypore: Raimati Ghiuria, a tribal woman of Koraput district, has launched a sort of movement by adopting organic methods of farming and encouraging others follow suit. So far, Raimati of Nuaguda village has succeeded in persuading more than 740 farmers to go for organic farming when cultivation has become a daunting task in the absence […]
From offering micro-credit to farmers to using natural pest repellents, the recent Uzhave Thalai offered many insights into the future of farming. Heres a quick look at what some of the speakers said at the event
Want to buy organic jamun, palash, and karvi honey? The state forest department has extended a helping hand to the villagers of Maharashtra’s hinterlands for branding and marketing their produce in cities like Mumbai and Pune. This will act as a fresh source of livelihood for people residing in the remote Kandati Khore in Satara […]
Jagarnath Prasad and Ajit Kumar, both marginal farmers, have reduced their cost of production and increased their income by using a concoction from homemade curd in place of urea as fertiliser on their fields. Both have successfully increased their production of their kharif and rabi crops as well as vegetables, litchi and mango. Jagarnath and […]