There’s new brew on the menu at Indigo Deli, and it comes packaged with fresh karma. The deli’s outlets at Colaba, Phoenix Mills and Andheri (West) will now stock Araku Emerald coffee, which is grown by Adivasi farmers in Andhra Pradesh. The coffee gets its name from the valley in which it is grown, Araku […]
Nalanda (Bihar): A farmer from Bihar’s Nalanda district has set a national record in organic wheat production. Surendra Prasad of Sarilchak a village in Nalanda, about 100 km from Patna, has produced 135.75 quintals of wheat per hectare using the SRI (System of Rice Intensification) organic method. The national record so far was 100 quintals […]
Farmers in Karnataka are showing the way to profitable farming by going organic and conserving traditional seeds. INDIA a centre of megadiversity, not only geographically but also in its food. For instance, there used to be more than 3 lakh varieties of rice and there are more than 50 traditional varieties of Brinjal grown in […]
Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe award was presented to Mr.M. Balasubramanian of Madurai, Tamil Nadu. M Balasubramaian is the coordinator of OFAI’s state Secretariat, Tamil Nadu. The country wide OFAI community takes pride in this recognition and extends its hearty congratulations to him. Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe Trust presented the award to Mr. Balasubramanian for this year at New Delhi […]
Crop trial centres say steps were taken to avoid contamination THE Rajasthan government has initiated an inquiry into the field trials of transgenic mustard conducted without due supervision. The state’s Department of Environment has called a meeting on April 2 to find out how the field trials were undertaken without the knowledge of the State […]
For a farmer there is nothing more precious than his crop. But in parts of Vidarbha region this week, groups of farmers and women put fire to their cotton produce. The farmers were all deep in debt and the women were mostly widows of men who have committed suicide in recent years. It was not […]