The festival will showcase Seed and food crops diversity across India. It will be and open platform for exchange of diversity and knowledge. You will also get a chance to interact directly with farmers who will be selling their produce and different other value added products during the festival.
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government is working on an organic farming policy that will be implemented in 15 districts of the state in the first phase, Odisha Agriculture Minister Pradip Maharathy said on Sunday. At several places, villagers still practice organic farming. It is a proven fact that organic farming can help increase productivity of crops. […]
In the early summer month of April, around the magnificent Niyamgiri range in southern Odisha, the desi mango trees are already fruiting and mahua flowers have begun to blossom. Soon Kondh women will squeeze out the mango juice and dry it to make ambosoda, gather the mahua flowers to sell in the market while of […]
Around the world, urban agriculture is playing a role in feeding a growing global population from mid-America to the Middle East. This video introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine along the Mediterranean Coast. Abu Nasser has created a 200-square-meter (2,153-square-feet) micro-farm using homemade organic […]
Indigenous pied pipers amid lush green paddy fields to set up traps to catch rats at Swarna village in Prakasam district. While the rice producing nations across the globe are spending millions of rupees on controlling the rat menace in paddy fields, Jangalus, a nomadic tribe from Nalgonda district (Telangana), use traditional traps made up […]
Indian women expats organised an event in Dubai on Friday where they gave tips about organic farming practices. These women have formed a Facebook group named Vayalum Veedum (Farm and Home) which stresses on organic farming. Other highlights of the programme was be speeches by Malayalam film actress Aswathy Menon and social activist Honey Bhaskaran. […]
Hyderabad, April 20: Farmers in Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu continue to end their lives but the response from governments both at the Central and State levels has not been proactive. Now, a group of IT professionals and an NGO are doing their bit to alleviate the situation and equip farmers better against […]
By Hindol Sengupta Farming will go back to basics with the help of tomorrows technology. The future of farming has been known to Indians for thousands of years, says Subhash Palekar. Half in jest, I ask the farmer who won the Padma Shri in 2016 if he is a fortune teller. With a laugh, he […]
Kolkata, (PTI) Navdanya, a Delhi-based NGO, is keen on developing community seed banks in West Bengals Singur and Nandigram as part of its Organic India campaign to save, breed and multiply native seeds and prevent bio-piracy of indigenous seeds and plants. “Join the Seed Satyagraha to stop patents on seeds and patents on life. Boycott […]
New Delhi [India], (ANI-NewsVoir): Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka will host ?National Trade Fair – Organics and Millets-2017? during April 28 to 30, 2017 at Palace Grounds, Bengaluru. Karnataka State Agricultural Produce Processing and Export Corporation Ltd. (KAPPEC) is the co-organiser of this national event. The fair will be inaugurated by Chief Minister of […]