TNN | Mar 27, 2015 KANNUR: Focusing on health, education and agriculture, the Kannur district panchayat presented on Thursday the budget for the financial year 2015-16, which projects an income of Rs 136.28 crore and an expenditure of Rs 108.21 crore.
Vaivasvat Venkat, TNN | Mar 27, 2015 LUDHIANA: The concept of kitchen garden has been give a new twist by South City resident Uma Saini who is growing veggies on water and not soil. The technique is called hydroponic farming.
Thursday, March 26, 2015 Kaithal: Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Thursday called upon farmers of the state to adopt organic farming, saying excessive use of fertilisers and insecticides are affecting the health of people and land fertility.
Daana Network is working to demonstrate that organic farming can bridge the two parallel realities. “In urban areas we have absolutely no responsibility in our consumption and this is something that has to change. The barrier between producer and consumer has to really disappear because the two sectors do not even know each other,” says […]
Date: 27th March to 29th March 2015 Time: 10:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. Venue: Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, Goa
Manu Moudgil Tuesday, March 10, 2015 What can a tiny seed tell you? A lot, say indigenous seed savers who are looking at it as the only challenge against cultural and political monopoly
Monsanto is expected to submit final trial results for its genetically modified (GM) corn to India’s lawmakers within a year. But a commercial launch is not going to be easy. Murali Krishnan explains why.
TNN | Mar 14, 2015 GURGAON: At the three-day Haryana Agri Leadership Summit, 2015, it was women farmers like Panipat’s 50-year-old Nikko Devi who stole the show. A part of the progressive farmer pavilion, the wife and mother of daily wage labourers showcased her harvest of mushrooms, which she had farmed in her two-room house, […]
Posted On: 2015-03-13 Camson Bio Technologies Ltd (Camson), India’s leading IPRdriven biotechnology company, inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Coconut Development Board (CDB), a Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India enterprise, to develop non-chemical, zero-residue, secondary metabolite based biocides to control red palm weevil (Ryhnchophorus ferrugineus) infesting coconut plantations.
Shenoy Karun, TNN | Mar 15, 2015 KOCHI: A group of farmers in Kerala has launched ‘Organic Farming Research Programme’ to help propagate successful organic farming techniques among others. Aluva-based Foundation for Organic Agriculture and Rural Development, an NGO comprising local farmers, had started monthly field visits and discussions in January.