December 28, 2012 by Waseem Ahad, ET Bureau FARIDABAD: As awareness about organic food catches up with the middle class, newer markets have emerged in Delhi-NCR. But unlike Gurgaon, Faridabad has been struggling to measure up as a profitable market for organic food retailers. When Vivek Ghai launched A-One Organic Farms in Faridabad three years […]
By K Surekha – KOCHI 03rd January 2013 09:12 AM At a time when farmers’ suicides are rife and many are dissuaded from taking up agriculture as an occupation owing to the reported losses, Subhash Palekar’s Zero Budget Natural Farming is becoming a big solace for farmers. Farmers across the state who have resorted to this […]
‘Bring regulation of biotechnological processes under the Biodiversity Act’ The second Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC 2012) held at Bangalore earlier this month has called for a ban on field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in India and a 10-year moratorium on Bt food crops. The three-day event, which witnessed a large turnout of scientists, […]
By Reema Narendran – THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 01st January 2013 11:20 AM If there was one farmer in the city suburbs who was vociferous against organic farming, it was Bhaskaran of Thennoorkonam near Vizhinjam. He very strongly believed that farming sans pesticides was impossible, organic farming was nonviable and that it meant obvious doom for any farmer who […]