Sreeparna Chakrabarty 01st November 2015 NEW DELHI: Marrying women’s empowerment with the quest for good health, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has found a unique way of empowering female agriculturalists by encouraging them to branch out into organic farming.
02 Nov, 2015 Peter Fernandes, Karan Manral and Yogita Mehra are deeply involved in kitchen gardening and organic farming in Goa. They are inordinately interested in this and their work includes, growing food crops, training people via kitchen gardening workshops, collaborating with farmers to promote locally-grown produce in Goa, helping organise events like the annual […]
Date: Sunday Nov 8th 2015 Time: 3-6 P. M. Venue: Arjuntree one, Margao, Goa India Registration fee: Rs. 500 Contact Yogita at 9960643245 Email: [email protected]
Niti PTI Bot – October 31, 2015 Bengaluru, Oct 31 (PTI) Pitching for protecting and strengthening agriculture which was in doldrums, Karnataka Assembly Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa yesterday said there should be a clearcut national policy to ensure remunerative price to farmers.
Akila Kannadasan Chennai, October 30, 2015 R. Durairaj was on a business trip to Europe in the late 90s, when he first heard the term ‘organic’. “A German friend and I were at an inn on the Austrian border. The owner offered us what she described as a “delicacy form India.” It was an organic […]
Thursday, 29 October 2015 By SiliconIndia BENAGLURU: Agriculture, which is considered to be the back bone of the Indian economy, is now the profession that is losing its prominence among the youth. Since the rapid urbanization and the rise of information and technology jobs have been attracting higher number of graduates from the rural parts. […]
October 29, 2015 A study conducted by the Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) highlights key hindrances to organic farming Despite the government’s constant efforts to promote organic farming, only 16.3 per cent farmers of Rajasthan use organic inputs, while fear of less production and unavailability of organic inputs form the major hindrances to the […]
By Sagari R. Ramdas on 27/10/2015 Depleting grazing lands, the disappearing role for indigenous cattle breeds in agriculture production as providers of milk, energy, manure and beef, coupled with a ban on cattle slaughter have led to plummeting cattle populations
Vamshi Krishna 29 October,2015 Most of the Farmers in India are struggling and fighting with weather woes and poor yields. But a farmer in Manipur has been succeeding in adopting smart and eco-friendly methods of farming. He is Devakanta. Like many other farmers in India, Devakanta also works in the paddy fields in Imphal for […]
PTI | Oct 29, 2015 KOTA: Despite the government’s constant efforts to promote organic farming, only 16.3 per cent farmers of Rajasthan use organic inputs, while fear of less production and unavailability of organic inputs form the major hindrances to the chemical-ridden farming.