PTI | Oct 15, 2015 NEW DELHI: The organic food market in India is growing at 25-30%, but the awareness about organic farming is still low in India despite huge spending, the government said. It released a study which projected that the domestic organic food market would touch the $1.36 billion mark by 2020.
Sajimon P S, TNN | Oct 14, 2015 Alappuzha: A 31-year-old woman, who bagged the state government’s best youth farmer award for organic farming initiatives in Kanjikkuzhy, has sparked some interest in otherwise humdrum poll scene after being made a candidate in ward number five of the panchayat.
Michelle Schoffro Cook October 8, 2015 The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared that glyphosate—the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup and other pesticides—a “probable carcinogen.” What’s more: there is evidence to suggest that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actually classified Roundup as a carcinogen thirty years ago and then mysteriously reversed the decision.
October 12, 2015 The C&A Foundation, a private foundation affiliated with the global clothing retailer C&A, and WWF India have launched a partnership to promote the cultivation of organic cotton in the Satpuda-Pench corridor of Central India, adjacent to the ecologically important Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, according to a blog in the C&A […]
13th October 2015 KOCHI: The International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture (ICCOA), an organisation working across the entire value chain of organic agribusiness, in association with Nurnberg Messe India, is organising Asia’s biggest International Organic Trade Fair and Conference ‘BioFach India together with India Organic 2014’ at Angamaly from November 5 to 7. BioFach will […]
Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times Oct 13, 2015 A migrant labourer not long ago, 37-year-old Sitaram Majhi is now a successful farmer. As Odisha’s agricultural fields starve for water due to drought conditions this year, Majhi never had a problem watering his crop in Kharamal village in Bargarh district’s parched Paikmal block, more than 500 […]
Oct 12, 2015 A sudden pest attack has ruined cotton crops in large parts of Punjab, bringing biotech, or BT Cotton back into focus. Farmers who used bio-fertilisers in the Malwa region of the state are said to be safe from this latest pestilence. But those growing BT cotton have lost everything. There are reports […]
Oct 11, 2015 by Natasha Geiling In 2011, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan announced a lofty goal: make the country’s agricultural system 100 percent organic by the year 2020. If it succeeded, it would be the first country in the world to achieve the feat
Oct 13, 2015 Swiss agrochemicals firm Syngenta and Germany’s Bayer have been accused of distributing dangerous pesticides in India’s Punjab region without sufficient safety information. The Basel-based firm says it is investigating the claims.
TNN | Oct 10, 2015, KOZHIKODE: The district organic farmers’ committee staged Vayal Raksha Sangamam, here, on Friday demanding strict action for the protection and retention of paddy fields. The sangamam demanded the protection of paddy fields across the state for ensuring food security and for offering organic rice.