Last weekend (14-16 October, 2016), farmers, scientists and activists from all over the world gathered at the Monsanto Tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, to present the case against destruction caused by one of the corporate giants that promotes industrial farming. The symbolic Monsanto Tribunal aimed to hold Monsanto – the giant agrochemical company – to […]
By Kavitha Kuruganti * More than 57 major farmer unions have already come out against the approval of GM mustard. These include Bhartiya Kisan Union, Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, All India Kisan Sabha, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangh and others. Kisan Ekta has recently passed a detailed resolution on this matter in their last convention. Further, as […]
New Delhi: An anti-GM crop body on Thursday alleged that a consortium of seven farmers’ bodies which has demanded commercialisation of genetically-modified (GM) crops, has a dubious background and that one of them was even a front organisation for the agro-chemical industry. Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) said it is strange that these […]
An RSS-affiliated farmers’ body today demanded a ban on commercial roll out of GM mustard and an internal probe into the functioning of country’s bio-tech regulator GEAC that falls under the Environment Ministry. Accusing the GEAC of being “in a hurry” to grant permission for commercial cultivation of GM mustard, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh questioned the […]
Hyderabad: From breakfast products to sauces, salad dressings to snack foods, certain imported products sold in city supermarkets were likely to contain Genetically Engineered (GE) food ingredients. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) officials said that it was illegal to sell food products with GE ingredients as they were still restricted. An investigation […]
BELAGAVI: This farmer of Koligudd village of Raibag taluk has brought about a revolutionary change in the life of other farmers through organic farming in every crop. Hanamantgauda Halaki, 45, is a BSc graduate who owns 20 acres and continues his father’s organic methods of agriculture even now. Hanamantgauda, who went to Germany in 2010 […]
Lydia Karegi, a smallholder farmer in Kiereni village in Chuka, tried a number of farming practices in an effort to get better harvests but her yields kept dwindling year after the other. Lydia, like most conventional farmers, ploughed her two-acre farm, applied a little compost manure and synthetic fertilisers then let her crops grow. Lydia […]
Pfutsero (Nagaland), October 17 (MExN): An awareness workshop on Organic Food and Farming was organised by North East Network (NEN) and Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA) in Pfutsero Town on October 17. Altogether, 112 participants comprising farmers, Pfutsero Town Council members, representatives of Phek District Farmers Union, colony chairmen, church leaders, youth members, staff members […]
With the objective of attaining self-sufficiency in terms of vegetables, Kerala government is planning to bring in additional 50,000 hectares of land under organic vegetable cultivation. Addressing a press meet here, state Agriculture Minister V S Sunil Kumar said the LDF governments plan is to expand farming by bringing in people of all sectors. “The […]
India continues to be an agrarian country, with nearly two-thirds of the population depending directly upon agriculture for their livelihood. Yet, one can find, since about a decade, a flood of food products imported from the four corners of the world. These mass grown products with a liberal use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides now […]