An event to celebrate diversity of traditional seeds and exchange the native seeds to conserve them for our future generations.
An event to celebrate diversity of traditional seeds and exchange the native seeds to conserve them for our future generations.
New Delhi, Apr 5: With bollworm developing resistance to Bt cotton crop, the government has decided to promote cultivation of indigenous varieties of the crop in a big way this year. In 2015-16 crop year (July-June), there was a significant damage to cotton crop because of whitefly and pink bollworm pest attack in states like […]
Having tried every known permutation and combination on cards, the Maharashtra government has now decided to deploy a massive force of 33,000 youth, trained in agriculture, to educate farmers on how to increase crop productivity. The State Government believes, increasing crop productivity will bring an end to the terrible agrarian crisis that continues to prevail. […]
Haryana, Mar 31: Every night, an incandescent bulb lights up the terrace room of a house in Lalitkhera village in Haryana. Insects from the adjoining pond swarm to this solitary bright spot under which Sheila Devi sits with a cup and saucer in her hand. She traps these insects one at a time to study […]
Ferozepur: In a bid to promote organic farming as ‘Nanak Kheti,’ NGO EcoSikh, in collaboration with the Living Successfully Foundation, organized a workshop at Lalchian village near Guru Harsahai town of Ferozepur on Saturday. More than 100 progressive farmers attended the workshop, which was aimed at promoting organic farming in Punjab, creating demand and marketing […]
Kochi, Mar 29: A farmers’ cooperative based in Kottayam cultivating organic crop is planning to roll out a string of coffee shops across the country selling premium organic coffee. Manarcadu Social Service Society (Mass) will start the cafe chain called Cafe de Monde in a few months from Kerala. The first one will be opened in Kochi which will […]
Bijnor, Mar 28: Organic farming seems to be catching fancy of farmers in the district. To encourage agriculturalists to take up the new farming practice, a team comprising 12 farmers has formed a group Shubham Sarvam Jaivik Samuh to sensitize communities about methodologies involved in organic farming, aimed at producing pesticide and urea-free crops. The group, […]
Port Blair, Mar 28: The Lt. Governor, Lt. Gen A K Singh (Retd) has underlined the need to create awareness among the farmers about the benefits of various schemes launched by the Government of India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modiji, so that the benefit of those schemes could reach directly to the […]
Mar 28: Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this […]
Bhubaneswar, Mar 28: More than 450 varieties of traditional paddy seeds from diverse geo-climatic conditions were displayed at a daylong fair organized here on Sunday. The exhibition was put up by Natabar Sarangi, an 83-year-old farmer, who distributes 15 quintals of paddy seeds to farmers from different parts of Odisha and the neighbouring states every […]