IANS | Feb 4, 2015 Thanks to innovative coir-based ‘grow bags’, for dwellers of high-rise apartments kitchen gardens will no longer be a patch of greenery outside the house, but literally a garden inside the kitchen. A few manufacturers have showcased plant-growing kits comprising light-fibre pots, nutrients-containing potting mixture, seeds and seedlings at the Coir […]
Kamini Mehta, TNN | Feb 4, 2015 CHANDIGARH: Six years ago, he caught hold of the street urchins running around his farm. No, he did not punish them. He got them together, entered their names in a register, gave them books and pencils and started a school.
TNN | Feb 3, 2015 RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh was conferred with the prestigious national award in different categories for successful implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on Monday. It is for the fourth consecutive year that state has received the award.
Adopt organic farming in a big way, LG tells farmers Report by: Agencies Port Blair 1 Feb 2015 The Lt. Governor, Lt. Gen. A.K. Singh (Retd) has given a clarion call to all the stakeholders to work unitedly and take the farming of A & N Islands to completely organic level. Inaugurating the two-day state level […]
Aakriti Shrivastava A device that literally makes light of the rice parboiling process Bhuvani Devi, a frail-looking woman in her early thirties, has taken up a new challenge — to produce a tonne of parboiled rice in Baarwan village in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district. Unlike what the region’s paddy farmers did until now, she wants to […]
TNN | Jan 31, 2015, VARANASI: The two-day National Farmers’ Fair cum vegetable show, in collaboration with Association for Promotion of Innovation in Vegetable (APIV), commenced at Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR) on Friday.
Friday, 30 January 2015 | Pioneer | in Bhubaneswar With a view to promoting organic farming and having a vision to make more and more women empowered in the State, Tanuja Mohanty (30) has begun her endeavour as a social entrepreneur in Bhubaneswar. Inspired by her mother Urmila Mohanty, Tanuja, who hails from Boinda in […]
Visakhapatnam, January 30, 2015 Rani Devalla Organisation formed to promote best farming methods After reviewing the present millet farming practices, farmers from 45 villages across Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and other districts have come up with the concept of integrated millet cultivation. The recent biodiversity festival, organised by the Millet Network of India (MINI) in collaboration with […]
Chandra Bhushan Pandey, TNN | Jan 28, 2015 MOTIHARI: JS Sandhu, agriculture commissioner, Government of India, after visiting East Champaran along with senior state agriculture department officials and some farmers said here recently that farmers of the district are more progressive and they are doing farming with the help of scientifically proven methods.
Date: Saturday Jan 31st & Sunday Feb 1st, 2015 Time: 10:30 am until 6:00 pm Venue: Golden Bead School (click to see map here: Malnad Mela Map)