New Delhi: To address concers of farmers who have been agitating in the capital for two days, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today formed a ministerial panel which will discuss impact of retail FDI and minimum support prices among other things. The committee of six ministers headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has decided to take […]
Hyderabad – Braving dry climate, poverty, poor access to market and calls of Maoist rebels to join them, hundreds of youths from marginalized communities in rural India are turning into food growers, transforming dry, barren land into green, productive fields Dalit youth Ramesh, 19, of Rayapally – a village 170 km away from Hyderabad city […]
New Delhi, March 19, 2013: On the second day of a large farmers’ rally in the heart of India’s capital here today, the Mahapanchayat (great assembly) of farmers and agriculture workers resolved to stay put until their demands are met. In a historical new formation, people’s movements and large farmers’ unions have come together to […]
Press Trust of India New Delhi March 18, 2013 Scores of farmers from across the country gathered at Jantar Mantar here today under the banner of Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movements (ICCFM) and pressed the government to accept their demand for guaranteed income for peasants. In a protest termed “Kisan Khet Mazdoor Mahapanchayat”, the […]
Posted by : RAGINI BHUYAN 16th Mar 2013 For Bagh market wears a deserted look on Sundays —almost, but for the buzz within a small dilapidated building. Step inside, and you will discover the Organic Farmer’s Sunday Market. What started as a weekly organic food haat in Lodhi restaurant has now grown into a full-fledged […]
Posted by Parul Pandey TNN Mar 15, 2013 PATNA: The state farmers spend 25% of their agriculture budget on chemical fertilizers, claims Greenpeace in its report, ‘Fertilizer, fuel and food: Win-win option for Bihar’, released on Thursday. The report also claims that the use of chemical fertilizers was not only affecting the farmers monetarily but also their […]
Posted by Chitra Unnithan, TNN | Mar 18, 2013 AHMEDABAD: They have an MBA from the most sought-after business school in the country but are busy selling vegetables. Nirmal Kumar and Kaushlendra Kumar — both graduates from IIM-Ahmedabad, have brought respectability to the business of vegetable selling through their innovative ventures. Bihar-based Kaushlendra, whose brand […]
Posted by Mark Tran in Bengaluru, guardian.co.uk | March 13, 2013 Agriculture in Karnataka is enjoying a spurt in productivity as farmers rejuvenate the soil using micronutrients Bursting at the seams, choked with traffic, luxury towers under construction advertising helipads … Bengaluru, India’s IT capital, basks in the limelight in the south-west state of Karnataka. Yet the […]
E. Kumar Sharma; Feb 17, 2013 Yoav Lev was a 22-year-old backpacker when he first came to India in 1987. A graduate from an agricultural boarding school in Israel, he came seeking inner peace from his ‘spiritual guru’, the late H.W.L. Poonja of Lucknow, better known as Papaji. “The quest was to find my true […]
Jan Piotrowski, 22 February 2013 | EN 80 per cent of organic-certified farmers live in developing countries [PARIS] An international platform to strengthen and coordinate research on organic farming, and help benefits trickle down to organic farmers, the majority of whom are in developing countries, was launched in Germany last week (15 February). The idea for the network […]