Ch Sushil Rao, TNN | Nov 29, 2015 HYDERABAD: For eight years, Komatireddy Raja Reddy was an NRI. After wrapping up a project with the World Bank in Washington D C, the data architect moved to New York and then had a brief stint at Boston. Cut to 2015: Raja Reddy is a farmer back […]
Shruti Tomar Nov 27, 2015 Guddi Singh is a farmer in Madhya Pradesh who graduated from the school of hard knocks with top grades. Two years ago she began finding it tough to earn a living out of farming. Crops in her farm at Mohtara village in Sahdol district failed.
Sreejith Vallikunnu November 25, 2015 Chikkadevaiah is helping farmers to sell organic products. Madhuchandan Chikkadevaiah, a 37-year-old software engineer who gave up his high-profile job in the US is now literally saving the lives of farmers in Karnataka’s Mandya, an area that was once known as the capital of farmers’ suicides.
November 26, 2015 Chennai Vinoth Kumar is set to travel across 11 countries in his search for traditional organic farming methods After six years behind the desk at an IT job, Vinoth Kumar left it all to become a farmer. Hailing from an agricultural family based in Cheyyur, Kanchipuram district, the 32-year-old has been a […]
E.M. Manoj KALPETTA, November 23, 2015 Highlighting the significance of conserving traditional rice varieties, the Thanal Agro Ecology Centre (TAEC) opened its rice germ plasm collection at its paddy diversity block at Panavally, near Kattikulam, in Wayanad to the public on Sunday.
Organic market is on the rise in India, with Bangalore having highest sales of Organic Food Products as well as the largest number of Organic outlets. In 2012, Bangalore had a Retail sale of INR 300 million and it is growing at the rate of 35-40% per year. Bangalore’s Retail Sale is estimated to reach […]
An extract on the Green Revolution from Joel K. Bourne Jr’s The End of Plenty Joel K. Bourne Jr When Norman Borlaug and M. S. Swaminathan introduced the new high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice to India, they focused their initial efforts in Punjab, a traditional wheatgrowing region on the border with Pakistan. The result […]
Nov 20, 2015 Joel K. Bourne Jr How pesticides and public health are a matter of great concern in Punjab… n the early 2000s, news reports began to surface of another disturbing phenomenon in rural villages in the cotton belt. The jet-black hair of numerous Punjabi schoolchildren, some as young as 10 years old, had […]
Joel K. Bourne Jr How instead of harvesting a nutritious traditional food crop that could supplement the diets of the poor, farmers poisoned it just to grow more grain.
November 22,2015 Uyumpok Mamang Leikai (Imphal East, Manipur): When farmers across India are struggling with weather woes and poor yields, there is one of their ilk in Manipur who has succeeded in adopting smart and eco-friendly methods of farming to ensure a satisfactory harvest every year.