ByDr Shankar Chatterjee The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in its report, The Future of Food and Agriculture: Trends and Challenges, observes world population would reach 9.73 billion in 2050. In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, agricultural output would need to more than double by 2050 to meet the increase in demand. Incidentally, the Government […]
By Hiren Kumar Bose, Rajkot, Gujarat “Farmers who are forced to sell tomatoes for ₹1 for a kilo or onions for 50 paise and end up destitute have become the norm,” says Neetu Patel, an agri-entrepreneur. “That’s not the kind of farming we believe in. We are into growing medicinal plants and even crops like […]
Ahmedabad: With organic farming reviving across India, and the world, the area under such cultivation is expected to increase from 7 lakh hectare (ha) now to 20 lakh ha by 2020. Before the onset of Green Revolution in the 1960s, organic farming was widely in use, but productivity was low. India was forced to depend […]
The West Bengal Agriculture department organised a three-day-long Jaibo Krishi Mela at Bidhan Sishu Udyan in Ultadanga which began on Saturday. Purnendu Basu, the state Agriculture minister said that the department had received a proposal from the authorities of Bidhan Sishu Udyan to take up some projects in the vacant place of their organisation. The […]
Amritsar: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kamaldeep Singh Sangha today advised the farmers to take up organic and natural farming and not to burn the crop residue. He said moong (green gram) should be sown immediately after harvesting wheat crop. This would not only help in fertilising the land by increasing nitrogen element in the soil but […]
Forty-one-year-old PR Sunu reaches his office a little after 7 every morning. Once there, the government employee from Ernakulam proceeds to get hold of a garden hose. The next half hour is spent watering the plants in the 25 cents plot adjacent to his office, that has now been converted to an organic vegetable garden. […]
When you grow up in what is voted the most liveable town in North America (Nelson, Canada), which has more organic coffee shops than most cities, where the word(s) on the street are kale, spirulina and maca, and your father started the first WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) in Canada on his homestead, you […]
The Natural Farming Summit 1.0 will address key themes related to enhancing farm yields, improving nutritive value of crops, increasing farmer earnings and preserving local biodiversity.
By Stacy Malkan When a reputable-sounding nonprofit organization released a report attacking the organic food industry in April 2014, the group went to great lengths to tout its independence. The 30-page report by Academics Review, described as a non-profit led by independent academic experts in agriculture and food sciences, found that consumers were being duped […]
NEW DELHI: Restricted field trials of certain transgenic varieties of rice, wheat, maize and chickpea and discussions to determine the next course of action on GM mustard’s commercial release will be on the agenda of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee meeting on April 12. “We will examine the pending applications of various research institutions and […]