A healthy diet begins with lots of fruits and vegetables, but some of the shiny, perfect looking veggies available in the marketmay not good for your health after all.A study by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Union agriculture ministry threw up some unpalatable facts vegetables and fruitson sale in the […]
VISAKHAPATNAM: Farmers in Visakhapatnam district are mulling a winter crop holiday keeping in view the side effects of demonetisation. However, agriculture and horticulture department officials are trying to prevent the farmers from doing so as such a move will make the price of pulses, vegetable, onions and certain commercial crops grown during the winter season […]
With the expected participation of around 2,000 workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the Cheruvannur panchayat will venture into paddy farming in 300 acres of its kole land at Avalapandi on December 3. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will launch the project, which is claimed to be the first of […]
India’s modern commercial poultry production is barely 50 years old, although backyard poultry farming dates back to prehistoric period. Backyard poultry production is an old practices in rural India. Mostly in North East region, backyard farming is usually practiced which usually comprises of rearing indigenous birds with low production performances. Usually the potentiality of indigenous […]
The Chhattisgarh Government has launched schemes to develop Dantewada, Bijapur, Sukma and Gariaband as complete organic farming districts, officials informed on Saturday. This apart, one development block from each of the other districts will be included under Organic Farming Mission Scheme. The State Government operates several social welfare schemes through the medium of Co-Operatives. The […]
A recent publication in the journal Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment shows the results of maize-based conventional and organic farming systems over the first six years of two long-term field trials in Chuka and Thika in the central highlands of Kenya. The study was carried out by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in close […]
Amritsar, Organisers of the fresh food and natural products market hosted by Shahzada Nand College every Sunday have now invited farmers to watch a live demo of organic farming techniques. These workshops are trying to promote healthy produce by educating consumers on growing suitable vegetables and fruits in their kitchen gardens.
Guntur: The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to bring more land under natural farming to meet increasing demand for organic food and to get premium price to the farmers who cultivate paddy and other crops through natural farming. Following instructions of the government, the farmers started natural farming in 131 clusters in 13 districts in […]
Sharnappa Mudgal, Karnataka Joint Director of Agriculture, has underlined the need for farmers to revert to organic farming to protect the health of the soil, environment and also of people. He was speaking at a day-long symposium on creating Social awareness on the need for reverting to organic/natural farming, organised by the Department of Economics […]
Nagula Gangaram alias Chinnikrushnudu, a farmer from Chintaloor in Jakranpally mandal, defines progressive farming as he has developed four new paddy varieties using modern methods of cultivation. He has also been growing 50 paddy varieties which are rare and are believed to be useful for improving human health. He has distributed different varieties of seeds […]