Imagine a scenario where you dont have to visit a garden to buy vegetables. Whats better, you can choose to grow what you want to eat, in the comfort of your home. Archana Stalin and her husband Stalin Kalidoss are championing this cause, and are working hard to revive gardening and farming among the urban […]
Held at Vedic Village Spa Resort on January 13 and 14, The Market Place saw a gathering of more than 100 farmers, along with farmers collectives and cooperatives, NGOs and academics, politicians and government officials and, of course, consumers. Also present were delegates from International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), a worldwide umbrella organisation […]
SINGIMARI, Jan 19 – The growing market demand for organic farm produce and the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to transform the North East into an organic hub seems to be working on the minds of progressive farmers of Darrang district as reports of a good number of committed and hard working farmers of […]
Thiruvalla: Volunteers of the NSS unit at Marthoma College here are on a mission to take the message of organic farming to the people. They have distributed vegetable seeds and planted 1,000 curry leaf saplings on the premises of houses in the nearby areas.
As the Sikkim Organic Day- 2018 concluded on Thursday, Chief Minister Pawan Chamling said it was high time that the rest of the country and the world realized the importance of organic farming. Citing the rampant use of chemical fertilisers in the rest of the country and the world, which is adversely impacting the fragile […]
On the opening day of the International Trade Fair on Organics and Millets, which is underway in Bengaluru, the government of India declared 2018 as the year of millets, just as the cereal crop gained prominence as a staple and nutritious diet across sections of the society. Sadananda Gowda, minister of statistics and programme implementation, […]
Im born of this soil. Putting poison in the soil is like poisoning ones parents. Why would I harm myself like this?, says Adi Kumurka. Kumurka belongs to the Panga Kondh indigenous community in Odishas Rayagada district. His community is engaged in mixed organic cropping from traditional seeds. This is the traditional way of farming […]
Nearly 10,000 farmers from Andhra Pradesh and Telengana, are expected to participate to and do seed exchange (mainly paddy) during these days.It will be a good opportunity for BBSM members to display and create awareness and sell seeds of local vegetables and millets and other crops like Desi cotton.
Nagpur (Maharashtra), Jan 21 (ANI): A chef from Maharashtras Nagpur, Vishnu Manohar, cooked a tonne of curry using organic vegetables to help local farmers reach out to a greater market on Saturday. The initiative by the chef, who also holds the Guinness World Record, for the longest cooking marathon, was aimed at generating awareness about […]
Guwahati: Nova Biotech, a city-based private organic fertilizer firm, launched its first organic bio-fertiliser plant here on Friday to help government agencies accomplish the Centre’s target of making the Northeast an organic hub. The plant with initial capacity to produce 400 metric tonnes (MT) of bio-fertilisers and bio-pesticides was inaugurated at Thapana Path at Lakhra […]