FEB 26 2013 Bhaskar Savé is an activist working to reverse the harmful effects of non-organic farming through a philosophy of nonviolence. Travelling across Asia, the Perennial Plate series is on a mission to learn about sustainable food and farming practices. The latest episode begins in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat, where we meet Bhaskar Savé, an […]
TNN | Feb 26, 2013, 05.33 AM IST PATNA: Agriculture minister Narendra Singh on Monday said organic farming has started showing results by improving productivity besides improving the quality of vegetables. The income of farmers engaged in organic farming has also increased substantially. The state government has already decided to promote organic farming in at least one […]
Shruthi H M, Feb 23, 2013, DHNS : Bangaloreans continue to pay high prices for vegetables and fruits. But the farmers hardly get their due share, as too many middlemen in the supply chain pocket much of the profits. Baiyappa and Venugopal arrive in the City from Kadiri in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, every day before […]
S. HARPAL SINGH, The Hindu | February 24, 2013 Use of organic manure like cattle dung by a large section of tribal farmers in Adilabad district will soon be a thing of the past going by the current trend. An ever increasing number of aboriginal farmers prefer to sell huge quantities of indigenously produced dung […]
Published: Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013, 0:10 IST Place: Patna Bihar’s farmers have done it again. A farmer from Sohdih village of Bihar’s Nalanda district has set a new world record in potato production through organic farming this year. The potato farmer, Rakesh Kumar, has harvested 108.8 tonnes of potato per hectare and set a new world record […]
Kavita Srivastava: February 19, 2013 By arguing that GM crops are essential to food security, the Government seeks to conceal the underlying reality. The recent affidavit filed by the Ministry of Agriculture in the Supreme Court arguing that if India does not walk the path of (genetically modified) GM food, then it will starve, gives […]
By shunning all but organic farming techniques, the Himalayan state will cement its status as a paradigm of sustainability Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own animals and farm waste for fertilisers. But rather than […]
NEW DELHI, FEB 19: Food rights organisations, under the aegis of the Right to Food Campaign (RFC), have written to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar urging him to tackle food security in more ‘fundamental ways’ rather than link it with genetically modified (GM) crops. At a press conference here on Tuesday, RFC released the letter signed by […]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013 On the occasion of the 77th birth anniversary of the iconic farmers’ leader Prof. M.D. Nanjundaswamy, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) organized a series of events from the 13th to the 16th Feb to commemorate his memory. The North and South Indian farmers movements jointly inaugurated their […]
INDIA, Updated Feb 18, 2013 at 10:29am IST Samia Kapoor, CNN-IBN New Delhi: A young entrepreneur, Ashmeet Kapoor’s business venture ‘I say organic’ is the bridge between farmers and consumers of organic produce. His initiative delivers fresh organic veggies at the doorstep and also helps more than 50 farmers get a better price. 27-year-old Delhi boy, Ashmeet […]