NGO to strengthen Tribal farmers in organic farming with buy back plan. Alswamitra Botanicals LLP, a Bengaluru-based start-up, has started a project in tribal hamlets in South India to improve the yield and quality of organic crops like turmeric and millets by giving seeds from an NGO to...
‘Project Bandhan’ to use mating disruption technique to stop the spread of cotton PBW. As the pink bollworm spreads through cotton plants in North India, the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR), State agricultural universities, and private players like the South Asia...
Farmers worried about their livelihood as KIADB issued notification for land acquisition. Farmers in the Mulki villages of Kollur and Balkunje are worried about what will happen to their way of life if the land is bought for industrial use. ‘In another year or two, arecanut saplings...
CCEA approved the computerization of 63,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies. Computerization will make things clearer and connect all credit unions to a single accounting system. Wednesday, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a plan to turn around 63,000...
India’s wheat export ban made the global food market even more unstable: at WTO India’s ban on wheat exports has been criticized again at the WTO’s first agriculture meeting after the Ministerial Conference in Geneva. Seven members, including the US, the EU, the UK...
