India is an agrarian country. This is perhaps the first thing anyone studying the country learns about it. But is India still agrarian? Of late, the issue has been seriously debated. Agriculture still employs half of India’s population. Ensuring self-sufficiency in food is still a national goal. But the country …
Political rhetoric about the upswing in Punjab’s economy aside, the state has slipped from sixth spot to twelfth in six years as per the latest edition of the Economic Freedom Index (EFI). The Economic Freedom of the States of India, 2012, which ranks 20 states on three parameters -- size …
President Pranab Mukherjee today said the country can achieve the targeted 4 per cent growth in the agriculture sector during the 12th Plan period with the help of better seeds, improved water management practice and balanced use of fertilisers and pesticides, among others. The farm sector needs priority access to …
Vaman Acharya, Chairman of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), said on Thursday that the KSPCB had named Mangalore and Bhadravati as “critically polluted” cities in the State. He was inaugurating a three-day international conference on “Environment and occupation health” organised by Manipal University, the National Institute of Occupational …
The Vidhan Sabha today unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to help the state in promoting diversification and demanded a technology mission with an allocation of Rs 5,000 crore for Green Revolution states on the pattern of “Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI)” during the 12th Five-Year-Plan. A …
Waterlogging and secondary salinisation have become serious problems in canal irrigated areas of arid and semi-arid regions. This study examined hydrology and estimated the seasonal net groundwater recharge of an irrigated semi-arid region located in the Haryana State of India where about 500 000 ha area are waterlogged and unproductive, …
BHAWANIPATNA: Pest attacks are back to haunt farmers of Kalahandi district. Paddy crop in the irrigated pocket of Indravati project has reportedly been damaged by Brown Plant Hopper (BPH) pests and this comes at a time when the crops are in flowering stage. Severely affected blocks are Kalampur, Junargarh and …
The monsoon was almost missing during June-July, the two crucial months of paddy transplantation, but Punjab is looking once again at reaping a record harvest. Since the green revolution of the 1960s, the area under paddy has touched nearly 28 lakh hectares and Punjab contributes about 135 lakh tonnes of …
Pranab says Bihar may see the second green revolution PATNA, 3 OCT: President Pranab Mukherjee today arrived in Patna with a new wish ~ the wish that agriculture be developed into an “honourable profession”. “A professor’s son wants to be a professor, a doctor’s son wants to be a doctor …
Seven Eastern States appear to have brought about a Green Revolution in paddy cultivation. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Monday said the chronically food-deficit Eastern region has made a quantum jump in paddy output. “In two years (2009-10 to 2011-12) the seven Eastern States added around 85 lakh tonnes …
GUWAHATI: State Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka has requested Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to enhance the subsidy to at least 50 per cent for hybrid rice, high yielding varieties of paddy and pulse seeds under the scheme like National Food Security Mission (NFSM) as the Centre has been providing …
This report presents the latest thinking and new approaches to emerging and persistent challenges to achieve food security in the 21st century. It focuses on critical issues that have received less attention in the literature to date, such as: food waste, land acquisitions, gender aspects of agriculture, and early warning …
A second science-based Green Revolution is needed for increasing rice productivity as the health of rice-based systems determines the fate of Indian agriculture, Robert S. Zeigler, director general, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, said here on Friday. At a seminar on “Rice Research Innovations for Addressing Global Food Security …
Unless we put an end to baseless fear of GM crops, we will not be able to feed our growing population The parliamentary committee report on genetically modified (GM) organisms is an attempt to give a quiet burial to biotechnology in India. On behalf of the farmers of India, let …
West Bengal and Assam have failed to avail funds under Bringing Green Revolution to the Eastern India (BGREI) for FY13. In the Union Budget 2012-13, the Centre has allotted Rs 1,000 crore for seven states in the eastern region under the BGREI scheme. While West Bengal has failed to send …
Four new varieties of seeds, two each in wheat and barley, developed by the Agriculture Research Station (ARS) at Durgapura near here, have been approved for country-wide introduction. The All-India Wheat & Barley Improvement Research Worker’s meet, which concluded here the other day, approved a total of 10 varieties developed …
Centre mulling alternative crops The Union Government is looking at the possibility of replacing rice crop in Punjab and Haryana with alternative crops such as pulses, fodder and oilseeds that help in nitrogen fixation. The water-intensive rice cultivation over the years has become unsustainable in these two States and the …
Latest to bear the brunt of Amir Khan's "Satyamev Jayate" is the farming community in India who according to the show were using excessive pesticides during farming thus exposing consumers to the hazards posed by the pesticides.
KOLKATA, 25 JULY: Union agriculture ministry will review the performance of seven states, including West Bengal, in implementing BGREI (Bringing Green Revolution in Eastern India) tomorrow. A meeting in this regard will be held in the city with agriculture officials of Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and eastern Uttar …
The State-level committee on Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) sanctioned nine new projects under the second green revolution programme on Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture has sanctioned Rs 217 crore to the State under the Centrally-sponsored Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) to bridge the yield gap in the …
Chandigarh: Social activist and film and theatre actress Shabana Azmi was conferred today with the Women Empowerment Award by the Dr A S Cheema Foundation Trust, an NGO working for the upliftment of women in agriculture. A seminar on the theme of the Green Revolution and the White Revolution and …
