M. J. Prabu March 19, 2014 Jardhar village comprises of nearly 26 small hamlets in Uttarakhand. Like hundreds of villages in the country agriculture is a major occupation here. But the village is known for more than just agriculture. It houses some of the country’s best and ‘lost’ ancient seed varieties. This is thanks to […]
March 19, 2014 Environment Minister Veerappa Moily’s decision to allow field trials of genetically modified food crops marks a major shift in official policy on a highly contentious issue. That he would make a departure from the stand adopted by his two immediate predecessors was clear from his replies to questions in Parliament: a week […]
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Sunday, 16 March 2014 The State government has cleared the way for field trials of transgenic crops recently. Along with various farmers groups, environmentalists and experts, the Maharashtra Organic Farming Federation (MOFF), which has been promoting organic farming, has strongly objected to the decision. MOFF claimed that it is hazardous and irreversible. It has submitted […]
Hindustan Times (Chandigarh) Mar 16 2014 LUDHIANA: The issue of controversial genetically modified (GM) food is all set to become a major poll issue in the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab. According to Umendra Dutt, executive director of non-government organisation (NGO) Kheti Virasat Mission , to create awareness and mobilise public support for anti-GM movement, […]
John Vidal Tuesday 18 March 2014 Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with ‘mindless Indian elite’ to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties Fifty years ago, every Indian village would probably have grown a dozen or more rice varieties that grew nowhere else. Passed down from generation to generation and family to family, there would have been […]
TNN | Mar 18, 2014 HYDERABAD: Organic vegetables, which have become popular in the city as a healthy alternative to pesticide-sprayed, mass-produced veggies, are now burning a hole in the pockets of consumers. Priced earlier at three times the price of regular vegetables, organic ones now cost up to 10 times the rate at rythu […]
M. J. Prabu March 18, 2014 Jai Prakash Singh has won many awards for his work to preserve native seeds A Varanasi farmer, Jai Prakash Singh, is a proud recipient of three awards — two from former Presidents in 2002 and 2009, and the Plant Genome award from the government for his outstanding role in […]
MADURAI, March 18, 2014 S. Poorvaja “People who live around here think I’m out of my senses for growing millets and taking to traditional seeds. But farming by natural methods is what is going to save our soil and environment in the long run,” says Karunakara Sethupathy, a farmer from Kanakankudi near Tiruppavanam. In his […]
Deepa H. Ramakrishnan, PUDUCHERRY, March 15, 2014. It’s 15 years since they have bought chemical pesticides It has been ages since anybody bought chemical pesticides from the nearby outlet run by the government,” said Bahour farmers. This group of farmers proudly say that they have not used chemical pesticides for over 15 years as they […]