GUWAHATI, June 17 – The Assam Government has identified 10 clusters across nine districts of Assam for implementation of the Centrally-sponsored Mission Organic Value Chain Development for the north-eastern region (MOVCD). Officials told this newspaper that the nine districts where areas having feasibility of organic farming have been selected are Golaghat, Nalbari, Kokrajhar, Kamrup Metro, […]
Noted agriculturist and inventor of Zero Budget Natural Spiritual Farming, Subhash Palekar, has been appointed as advisor by the Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to promote organic farming in the state. As part of the mandate, Palekar will be responsible for formulating agriculture related policies and look after knowledge sharing with the farmers.
EVEN AS the controversy over GM Mustard rages on, another row is in the offing over genetically modified (GM) crop version of jowar or sorghum, said to be the poor mans food in India as some members of a Parliamentary committee is learnt to have taken strong note of it. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on […]
Patna, June 16 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the main focus of the states agriculture road map is on increasing income of farmers and ensuring sustainable development of the sector. He also assured farmers of providing them minimum support price (MSP) with 50 per cent additional incentive. Kisano ki aamdani mein […]
KOTTAYAM: The MG University here has launched a unique project to make the district complete literate in organic farming. The campaign was launched by water resources minister Mathew T Thomas on the university campus on Friday.
Nel Jayaraman has some advice for farmers struggling to grow high-yielding varieties of paddy during drought: Go organic. Having switched to growing indigenous paddy in an organic manner some 15 years ago, Mr. Jayaraman said farmers need spend only a little on input costs and can get good returns on their investment if they grew […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is planning a regime of labelling genetically modified (GM) foods, which do not exist in India as of now. The move comes after India’s apex regulator for GM foods, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), approved India’s first transgenic food crop GM Mustard for commercial cultivation […]
BENGALURU: K Ramakrishnappa is busy through the week, monitoring his heirloom crops at his Mysuru farm and training farmers in organic farming. Meanwhile, his former colleague SV Hittalamani travels to rural pockets in Kolar, Ramanagara and Yelahanka to offer free consultation to farmers before returning to Bengaluru. “After retirement I work with farmers and help […]
Public Sector SJVN Limited has undertaken to provide skill development training to 1,600 individuals from Himachal Pradesh as a part of Skill India Initiative of the Government of India (GoI). The youths will be given skill training in the fields of horticulture, floriculture, vegetable, mushroom farming, bee-keeping, medicinal and aromatic plants, nursery plant protection, organic […]
Mumbai: Economist and former member of Maharashtra State Planning Board H.M. Desarda, on Tuesday termed the recently announced farm loan waiver by the State government as a necessary but not sufficient condition to deal with the problems related to agriculture. Prof. Desarda linked todays problems in agriculture to ecology and traced their origins to the […]