Organic farming – long held to be irrelevant in tackling world hunger – could be key to feeding the world as global warming takes hold, one of the biggest studies ever to be carried out into the “contentious” practice has concluded. The research, which has reviewed hundreds of studies stretching back over four decades, not […]
Patiala, Feb 12: The figure of Rs 70,000 crore cropped up frequently in 2015. This was the total amount that mutual fund firms invested in equity markets. This was also the amount that India offered to pay Russia to acquire anti-ballistic missile systems in what is considered the biggest defence deal between the two countries. […]
Nagpur, Feb 11: Subhash Palekar got to know that he was selected for the Padma Shri, while watching TV at a hotel room in Kakinada last month. The 66-year-old agriculturalist from Belora village of Amravati district in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region was at port city to address some 8,000 farmers at an Andhra Pradesh government-organised programme, […]
Tamil Nadu, Feb 8: With more farmers in the State opting for coarse cereals and the resultant increase in production, Tamil Nadu has been chosen for the Centre’s Krishi Karman award this year. In 2014-15, the State produced a record 40.75 lakh tonnes of coarse cereals that include ragi, maize and the minor millets. In […]
New Delhi, Feb 6: The growing outrage across the country against the secretive manner in which the country’s GM regulator within the Environment Ministry is trying to approve GM Mustard reached a new height with a rainbow group of citizens, under the banner of Sarson Satyagraha held a symbolic protest outside the Ministry of Environment, […]
New Delhi, Feb 6: The government on Thursday assured that the commercial release of the genetically modified mustard will not be approved without due process. The agitating activists were promised that it would hold consultations with them before taking any decision. The central regulator on transgenic crops, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), did not take […]
The adivasi farmer’s organizations of Malkangiri have been organizing Annual Community Seed Fair to celebrate the bounty of local natural resources including the traditional seeds every year. This Community Seed fair is completely being organised by the local advice farmers on their own. This year the Community Seed Fair at Malkangiri in Odisha state is […]
The first Genetically Engineered Food Crop is expected to be approved in two days from now in a hush hush GEAC meeting. Democracy is being trampled on blatantly. An opaque organization with no representation of the ministry of health, conflicting interests, linkages with the GM industry and doubtable ethics is going to take an irrevocable […]
New Delhi, Feb 6: Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh today here addresses the 87 th AGM of the ICAR Society. Shri Singh said that “the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has completed over eighty six years, overcoming challenges in growth and development of agriculture through generation of appropriate technologies […]
Tiruvananthapuram, Feb 6: The agriculture development and farmers’ welfare department will initiate a campaign for promoting organic farming across the state from February 28, said minister K P Mohanan. He was delivering the inaugural address at `Njattuvela’, the media seminar on agriculture here on Friday . The minister said the department has been successful in […]