Bengaluru, May 24 (IANS) Farmers should increasingly become entrepreneurs to find homegrown solutions to their problems rather than relying on the government, Helianti Hilman, a progressive natural farming expert from Indonesia, has urged. “When you are an entrepreneur, you think of innovations. An entrepreneurial mindset is very important for farmers because most of the time […]
Ibrahimpatnam: Kolan Pushpalata of Mondigourelli village has set an example for others to emulate by reaping profits from integrated farming involving both agriculture and animal husbandry – and organic cultivation. Pushpalata has 12 acres of which 3 acres each is allocated for mango and guava respectively. Mango is intercropped with drum sticks. In addition to […]
CHENNAI: If failure were to deter him, K Sakthikumar, an organic farmer at Vallivilai near Kayamozhi in Tiruchendur taluk of Thoothukudi district would have given up farming 10 years ago, because he had lost about Rs 8 lakh in the first year of farming itself. After graduation, instead of hunting for a job, Sakthikumar took […]
New Delhi: The Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) will make suitable arrangements for showcasing the Northeast organic products outside, in the rest of India. An initiative in this direction has already begun with the opening up, recently, of a Showroom-cum-Restaurant bearing a common brand name ONE (Organic North East) at Dilli Haat in […]
Conventional wisdom of most Indian farmers and farm advisers is that over a large area it is suicidal to do organic farming. V Antonisamy, a 74-year-old farmer in Puliyangudi in southern Tamil Nadu, has disproved this by carrying out organic farming in more than 200 acres for more than three decades.
HYDERABAD: Your favourite `Jonna Rottey’ (jowar bread) will not be the same again. If the city-based Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) has its way , the Indian market will soon be flooded with genetically modified or transgenic jowar. Four years after launching research on transgenic sorghum, the IIMR has successfully developed genetically modified jowar […]
Insecticides India (IIL) has launched a revolutionary biological product Kayakalp that will transform the health of soil and rejuvenate it organically to improve plant health and productivity. The launch of KayaKalp marks a major leap for IIL into the organic products sector. Kayakalp, a Hindi term which means Rejuvenation or Transformation of ones physical being, […]
Patna, May 22 (IANS) Greenpeace India, the environment protection organisation, has welcomed and lauded the Bihar government’s decision to give priority to organic farming. This initiative will prove sustainable for the agriculture and food security in the long run, a Greenpeace official said here on Monday. According to the organisation, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar […]
After Bihar, West Bengal has decided not to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard seeds in the state. The state government has sent a letter to the Centre asking them not to introduce genetically modified (GM) mustard as it would harm farmers. Minister in-charge for agriculture Purnendu Bose said, We are not in […]
THRISSUR: Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) on Saturday released a document on organic farming practices, detailing cultivation methods that need to be adopted. Vice-chancellor P Rajendran said that though there were 73 agricultural universities in India, KAU was the first one to prepare such an exclusive package on organic cultivation. Agriculture minister V S Sunilkumar – […]