Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda gave away the Krishi Ratna awards to 15 farmers from across the State for achieving high yields in 11 selected crops, at a function organised by the Agriculture department at the Vidhana Soudha on Thursday. The government has been presenting the awards for the last three decades at the State, district and taluk level. For 2010-11, 70 farmers at the district level and 429 farmers at the taluk level received the award.
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urged agricultural scientists to double their efforts to remove all misgivings on genetically modified (GM) crops from the minds of policy makers and the public.
With the approval of various bodies mandatory for doing business of genetically engineered (GE) crops, none should be unduly worried about the use of the crops, the member secretary of the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation, Dr K.K. Tripathy has said.
JAIPUR: The BJP, on Monday, came down heavily on the Ashok Gehlot government on the issue of relief for farmers whose crops were destroyed due to extreme cold wave and additional funds to the tune of over
Karnataka state govt blacklists Mahyco and orders ban on its Bt cotton sales.Read the order issued by the Agriculture department, Government of Karnataka on 22 March 2014.
Three days before the Centre
Losses to farmers across State pegged at Rs.42,000 crore Two Maharashtra farmers have approached the Bombay High Court seeking that the Union government be directed to provide a Rs. 20,000-crore package to compensate the losses suffered by thousands of farmers in the State whose crops were destroyed by hailstorms over the last month. The Public Interest Litigation petition will be heard on Thursday.
It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian government promotes rice, which consumes water, over the dryland friendly grains
Competition is tough in the seed market, which may explain why marketing gimmicks are often used to woo farmers. It’s tougher still for the farmers to get compensation when the claims fail and they are
<p>This study estimates the benefits that Indian farmers derive from market and weather information delivered to their mobile phones by a commercial service called Reuters Market Light (RML). We conduct
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Agriculture N. Raghuveera Reddy assured to secure Central grants and assist farmers who incurred crop losses due to natural calamities in the State. Crops in five lakh
"Zero-tolerance" laws designed to keep Europe free of unauthorised GM crops are unworkable, say farmers
More rain and snow are forecast in the days ahead as another system of rain-bearing clouds is expected in a couple of days, raising serious concerns about the impact on crops, which need the usually dry
Centre Holds State Govts Responsible Maharashtra continues to face the challenge of dealing with rising cases of farmer suicides. It has reported 204 such suicides in the first four months of the year
In the next 24 months, genetically modified food crops will enter India’s neighbourhood. And that will trigger changes in our own agriculture, like it or not. Between now and 2014, Bangladesh will introduce
Crops in an area of over 240 sq.km have completely been destroyed in the Zanskar valley of Ladakh by locusts which have invaded the area from China. After destroying crops in the Zanskar valley a
Udaipur: Despite restrictions on growing BT Cotton (Bacillus thuringiensis) in the state, mass cultivation of the crop has been reported at various tribaldominant tehsils in Udaipur adjoining Gujarat.
AP to await expert panel report on the crop.
On Wednesday Arvind Kejriwal had admitted that the scheme cannot be a long-term “remedy” The odd-even car-rationing scheme, despite preventing air pollution from getting worse, can be only an “emergency”
