July 20, 2012 – India Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority of India (APEDA) will be launching certification standards for organic textiles, “National Organic Textile Standards (NOTS) which have recently been included under the National Programme for Organic Productions (NPOP) on July 27, 2012 in the national capital. Mr Anand Sharma, Minister of […]
The beauty of growing safe foods in season, enjoying the harvests and more importantly sharing wholesome foods grown daily with our community of 14 farmers and 5 team experts, so delicately prepared using biogas is rather gratifying. Each working day in our lives is literally a virtual working holiday. Trust me; I would never trade […]
SUNDAY, 15 JULY 2012 12:55 PNS | BHUBANESWAR ‘India for Safe Food’ which is going to launch its Odisha leg in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, has demand that the Government ensure people’s access to safe food by taking up measures like promoting and encouraging organic or ecological or natural farming with appropriate investments in research, extension […]
Anula Sirisena is a Sri Lankan housewife who lives in a village and has seven jackfruit trees on her piece of land. About seven years ago Anula’s life changed for the better. She enrolled at the Horticulture Crop Research and Development Institute (HORDI) run by the Sri Lankan government’s Ministry of Agriculture. HORDI taught her to […]
TNN | Jul 8, 2012, 03.04AM IST THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Around 30 varieties of farm fresh organic rice, free from pesticides and chemical preservatives, are on display and for sale at the ‘Organic Rice Mela’, that began at the YMCA Hall on Friday. Organised by ‘Save Our Rice’ campaign and Thanal, the three-day organic rice mela is an effort to save […]
TNN |Snehlata Shrivastav | Jul 11, 2012, 04.52AM IST NAGPUR: Following in the footsteps of his father, 31-year-old Ashish Shinde from Anjangaon Surji village in Paratwada Tehsil of Amravati district is promoting organic farming in all possible ways. His father Deepak Shinde had shown the way in the 1990s. Today, Ashish has expanded the area of work […]
New Indian express/Kriti Omprakash, ENS – Bangalore/03rd July 2012 08:36 AM Food is an integral part of our lives, yet most of us do not stop to think about what we are consuming. Recently, a two-day Safe Food Mela held at Lalbagh kick-started a campaign that aims at creating public awareness around the issue of […]
The Hindu /Kaavya Pradeep Kumar/ July 9, 2012 Red, cream and black grains of rice stood in a neat row of earthen bowls, strung together and hung from the ceiling at the YMCA Hall here. Handicraft items, cloth bags and sacks of rice were stocked in corners. Myriad varieties of rice, both indigenous and species […]
TNN/ Jayashree Nandi | Jul 2, 2012, 01.27AM IST NEW DELHI: Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama Hukum Chand Patidar is no ordinary farmer. He has been practicing organic farming for quite some time now but his 15 minutes of fame came when he was recently invited by actor Aamir Khan to his chat show. Khan […]
DNA / Anil Gupta / Sunday, July 1, 2012 14:57 IST It is very encouraging to see an upsurge of interest among various classes of consumers about organically grown food products. Lest this interest evaporates soon, it might be useful to understand little more deeply the way organic agriculture movement has emerged in different parts […]