Vijayawada, Feb 5: The Andhra Pradesh government is going to promote organic farming to make agriculture more profitable, Minister for Agriculture Prathipati Pulla Rao has said. The Minister inaugurated the three-day ‘Agri & Dairy Tech Andhra 2016’, an international exhibition and conference on Agriculture and Diary Farming at the A Convention Centre here on Thursday. […]
Bengaluru, Feb 4: “Within retail sector, I represent a new-age E-commerce space that is food and grocery, which is one of the most difficult businesses from an execution standpoint,” said Hari Menon, CEO and Co-founder of Bigbasket, at Invest Karnataka 2016. Founded in December 2011, Bigbasket is one of the largest online food and grocery […]
Hyderabad, Feb 4: A Hyderabad-based organic food company is stopping at nothing to help transform the food habits of India. 24 Mantra Organic, a company created by Sresta Natural Bioproducts Pvt. Ltd., was founded by Raj Seelam in 2004 with the hope of fostering sustainability for small and marginal farmers. During its 12-year run, 24 Mantra […]
Patna, Feb 4: Organic farming, promoted with much fanfare in two clusters in Muzaffarpur and Nalanda districts in Bihar in 2007-08, seems to have lost the charm to draw the state government’s attention. It was chief minister Nitish Kumar who evinced interest in organic farming and made a move to popularise and promote it. The […]
Faridkot, Feb 3: Unlike many of their less-fortunate peers, many small and marginal farmers in this area are in high spirits for they opted for organic farming. Sometime ago they couldn’t have imagined that wheat they grew would gratify doctors, engineers, educationists and several others who use organic products only. However, for the past over […]
Washington DC, Feb 2: Eco-Sikh, a Washington DC based organization has sounded the alarm on issues related to climate change and has urged Sikh Gurdwaras to take green actions as part of the Sikh Environment Day celebrations on March 14. In a new campaign, EcoSikh has appealed to gurdwaras to develop a plan to introduce […]
Nagpur, Feb 1: After developing Central India’s largest biodiversity park for students and researchers, Raj Bhavan has started keeping honeybees to lend help to farmers from Vidarbha for increasing yield of crops. Total 15 honeybee hives have been installed and the plan is to increase the number to 50 within a period of one or […]
New Delhi, Feb 2: The Supreme Court has sought an explanation from the central government on its proposed move to introduce herbicide resistant mustard, cotton and corn in the face of a court-imposed ban on their introduction. A three-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice of India TS Thakur and justices AK Sikri and R Banumathi asked […]
Tamil Nadu, Feb 5: When fourth-generation tea planter Ramesh Babu decided to leave his family’s plantation in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu to start his own organic operation, people called him crazy. “It was unheard of in our part of the country,” the 54-year-old said of his decision in 2006 to take on […]
In a letter from Mr Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Delhi Government, to the Prime Minister he is saying that decisions such as the one on GM mustard, if taken without consulting, and without the approval of state governments, will be unconsitutional. Large scale trials should not have happened without taking state governments on board, […]