New policy envisages decentralised storage facilities. Policy highlights Envisages converting all crops into organic farming mode over the next ten years in a phased and compact manner. Advocates adopting a compact area group approach Every local self-government institution will develop model organic farms in select farmers' fields. Our Bureau Kozhikode, May 17
SMALL FARMERS WHO SUPPLY THE TUBER TO PEPSI HAVE BENEFITED A LOT SUNIPA DAS GUPTA & ASHOK GULATI
ANDHRA Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah and his political rival TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu are both playing messiah for the farmers of the state.
Admit it, you were among those who thought biotech crops meant a robot's haircut in 2025. Now, stuff that baingan down your sceptical face and chew on this: India has hit the big time in biotech
Last few days the markets have been flooded by the Goan delight, Mancurad mangoes but mango traders are not a happy lot. This season, they have not able to earn expected returns for two reasons. One, mango production has been less this year. There has been drop in the production almost by 40 per cent as weather turned truant during flowering period in January
India is about to breach the $2 trillion GDP mark, as it works its way through the lower end of the middle-income-nation spectrum. We have yet to recognise that the economic output of a large state like
Global environmental changes (GEC) such as climate change (CC) and climate variability have serious impacts in the tropics, particularly in Africa. These are compounded by changes in land use/land cover,
New Delhi: Raising their voice against the Delhi Government
Humans continue to transform the global nitrogen cycle at a record pace, reflecting an increased combustion of fossil fuels, growing demand for nitrogen in agriculture and industry, and pervasive inefficiencies in its use. Much anthropogenic nitrogen is lost to air, water, and land to cause a cascade of environmental and human health problems.
<p>The liberalisation process that started in India in the early 1990s has made Orissa potentially the most attractive destination for large capital-intensive projects by private-sector firms – typically mineral-based ones. These projects are facing opposition from the people, especially those likely to be displaced and those who will be indirectly affected.
Chamarajanagar: Greens cry foul over plan to set up factory in the forest. On the brink: The agriculture land handed over by KIADB to set up industries near the BRT Hills tiger reserve near Modahalli in Kollegal taluk.
The Chinese ministry of agriculture has approved testing on genetically modified (GM) dairy cows for human (breast) milk. If certified, the milk would become China
More than four million South Sudanese, a third of the African country’s population, may go hungry at some point in 2013 despite a higher harvest last year, the United Nations said on Friday. South Sudan’s
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Low farm productivity in big states like UP, Bihar, Orissa, MP and West Bengal is proving to be a limiting factor to India's food security in the long run
Nayanima Basu / New Delhi May 14, 2010, 1:15 IST The much-awaited nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) policy, which came into effect from April 1 with the objective of enhancing soil nutrition in the country, might turn out to be ineffective and unproductive for the farming community even as it was expected to reduce the government
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI The Rs 72,000 farm loan waiver announced by the UPA government in 2008 appears to have missed the targeted beneficiaries as suicides among small and marginal farmers are on the rise. According to Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Yudhvir Singh, 2.16 lakh farmers committed suicide during the period 1997-2009.
Economic Survey of Maharashtra is prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department every year for presentation in the Budget Session of the State Legislature. The present publication
Economic Survey is one of the budget documents which indicates the important economic activities and achievements of the Government. The salient features of the State of the economy of Himachal Pradesh
The high-level committee for central assistance to states affected by natural calamities has approved Rs 778 crore for Maharashtra, to combat drought in a number of districts. Meeting in Delhi on Thursday under the chairmanship of Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, it also approved Rs 526 crore in drought aid to Karnataka. The Congress-NCP government here is struggling to tackle drought conditions in 145 of the state’s 353 talukas. Scarcity has been announced in 6,250 villages due to low rainfall. The government has launched multiple programmes, such as animal camps, drinking water supply through tankers and works under the state’s Employment Guarantee Scheme. It has also asked neighbouring Karnataka to release some water for relief to border districts.
In a first of its kind experiment to identify specific trait from country's huge genetic resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) has characterised more than 5000 varieties of wheat germplasms for development of better seed varieties which could withstand climate change issues. The national seed bank which operates under NBPGR, has more than four lakh accessions out of which around 1.2 lakh belongs to only rice and wheat varieties.
