Year: 2015

Food Safety Licence a Must

09th June 2015 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The food safety commissioner has asked fruits and vegetable vendors in the state to secure food safety licence or registration within a month. The directive followed the detection of high-level pesticide content in vegetables produced in Tamil Nadu. A team from the Food Safety Department had recently conducted inspections at vegetable production […]

AGRICULTURE EXPO

Wild Orchid Entertainments  is organizing AGRICULTURAL EXPO, in Menezes Braganza Hall, Panjim Goa on 5th & 6th, July 2015. Exhibitions Coming Up……. Business Opportunity Expo In Dubai on 27th & 28th August 2015. We invite you to participate & get special discount for Stall Booking. Agriculture expo  

Organic farming takes baby steps in south Gujarat

Himansshu Bhatt, TNN | Jun 3, 2015 SURAT: A jumbo Kesar mango grown at an organic farm weighs 500 grams. Pravin Desai, a progressive farmer in Valod of Tapi district has 2,000 trees that have produced 14,000 kg this year. While the organic produce is superior in quality, its high price keeps consumers away.

India’s independent farmers embrace organic

May 31, 2015 CHAINA, India — For two decades, Mahender Singh grew his vegetables without chemicals on his 10-acre plot of land in Pipal Mangoli, a village in southeastern Punjab. Then in 1967, an official from India’s Agriculture Department arrived in the nearby city of Patiala with a bag of chemical fertilizer, and farming in Punjab […]