Year: 2014

Farm Income Insurance Scheme to Provide Protection to Farmers Against Natural Calamities is on the Cards: Radha Mohan Singh

04-September-2014   Production and price risks affect the income of farmers, which has adverse effect on their capacity to invest in advance crop varieties, techniques of production and capital formation in farm sector. Inaugurating a Seminar on concept of farm income insurance scheme at Ahmedabad today, Union Minister of Agriculture, Shri Radha Mohan Singh said […]

India: Neera production to enhance revenue of coconut farmers

Aug 28, 2014 Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has lauded the efforts of the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) in developing a technology for neera production. Inaugurating the neera plant at the College of Agriculture (CoA), Padannakkad, the Chief Minister said neera production was bound to enhance the profits of coconut farmers in the State and the […]

Asia’s biggest Organic fair at Kochi in Nov

August 27, 2014 Aiming to provide a common platform for buyers, sellers and other stakeholders in the organic sector, Kerala will be hosting Asia’s biggest International Organic trade fair ‘BioFach India’-India Organic 2014 at nearby Angamally from November 6-8.  

Fixing the date for National Consultation on BGREI at Patna

In the Raipur meeting on BGREI on 10th August, it was reported by your representative that the National consultation will be held in the 3rd week of September’2014. As per reports made in the meeting all Round Tables will be completed within 8th September’2014. Please fix the date for Natl. Consultation and intimate the respective […]

Invitation for Open Source Seed System Workshop

In taking forward the open source seed systems initiative we had a small group meeting on Open Source Seed Systems in RIS Habitat Centre in Delhi last month with Ravi Srinivas who is author of one of first paper on open source seed systems. At that meeting we had decided it to follow up on the […]

Agriculture Minister is visiting DRCSC project area

As per intimation from the Agri-Directorate, WB, the Agri-Minister Sri Purnendu Basu, MOS Agri Sri Becharam Manna, Agri-advisor to the CM Sri Pradip Majumder and the Director of Agri Dr. Paritosh Bhattacharjee is visiting implementation areas of DRCSC in Bankura & Purulia. After the visit there will be a meeting of these agri officials alongwith […]

Round table on promotion of ecological agriculture at agartala

The consultation will be held on 10.09.2014 at Agartala and will be attended by the state Agri Minister Sri Aghore Debbarman, Dy.Speaker of Tripura Assembly Sri Pabitra Kar and other important govt. officials. The venue will be notified later. – Raj Krishna Mukherjee Development Research Communication and Services Centre 58A Dharmatola Road, Kasba, Bosepukur, Kolkata […]

Seminar on the impact global warming on agricultural productivity

Please join 3ie-ISI for a seminar on 27 August, 3.30-5 p.m. at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Ridhima Gupta will be presenting the findings of her forthcoming study on the impact global warming on agricultural productivity. The seminar is open to all. 3ie in association with the Centre for Research on the Economics of […]