Agriculture

Note from the Principal Secretary to Government (RD), Panchayat Raj & Rural Development, Govt. of A.P., Hyderabad on the formulation of a new society under the Societies Act for Community Managed sustainable Agriculture initiative

Note dated 31.3.2011 from the Principal Secretary to Government (RD), Panchayat Raj & Rural Development, Govt. of A.P., Hyderabad on the formulation of a new society under the Societies Act for Community Managed sustainable Agriculture initiative.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2011
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Tags:
Agriculture, Rural Development, Andhra Pradesh, Farmers, Organic Farming, Agricultural Inputs, Technology Transfer, Natural Pesticides
Agriculture

FAP rejects imposition of GST on agricultural inputs

Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) has rejected the imposition of General Sales Tax (GST) on pesticides, tractors, fertilisers and other agricultural inputs. FAP expressed its views through a unanimously adopted resolution at the 118th extraordinary general body meeting of FAP held on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2011
Business Recorder (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, Agriculture, Pesticides, Tractors, Agricultural Inputs, Subsidies
Food Policy

Food and inflation: Time to expose the non-linearities

The more a farmer spends on fertiliser and pesticide, which he believes that he must to maintain yields from his gradually decaying parcel of land, the more is the rise in the disease burden amongst those who produce the food and those who consume it. It is not just about one shortcoming in the way India calculates food price. It is about a fundamental gap in the economic theory of calculating inflation based on food prices.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2011
Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
Farmers' Forum
10
10
34-37
Tags:
Food Prices, Agricultural Inputs, Farmers, India, Agriculture, Food Policy
Agriculture

Food inflation: India's permanent challenge

Balancing the conflicting interest of farmers, intermediaries and consumers is a tightrope walk for the Indian government even when there is price tranquility. This balancing exercise has become nightmarish in recent years with food inflation showing persistency and turbulence. These developments prompted the Cabinet Secretary to constitute an inter-ministerial group (IMG) to manage overall inflation with a focus on prices of primary food items in February 2011.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2011
Naresh Minocha
Farmers' Forum
10
10
24-32
Tags:
Food Prices, India, Food Policy, Horticulture, Agricultural Inputs, Legumes, Oilseeds, Imports, Vegetables, Food Security, Poverty, Malnutrition, Subsidies, Farmers, Agriculture
Agriculture

Model agriculture farm in Mannar

Arrangements are being made to start a 100 acre model agriculture farm in Murungan, Mannar district close to the high level spill of the giant tank.

Commenting on the new venture, Mannar Reawakening Programme's Institutional Affairs Chief Irrigation Engineer Palitha Wickramatilake said that the project implemented on the Irrigation Ministry Secretary, Engineer Ivan Silva's guidance will benefit

Publication Date: 
25/04/2011
Daily News (Sri Lanka)
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Sri Lanka, Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs
Climate Change

The effectiveness, efficiency and equity of market-based and voluntary measures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the agri-food sector

Most scientists agree that human activity that releases carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere is the dominant cause of climate change. The current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is around 380 parts per million (ppm), up from 280 ppm in pre-industrial times. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Publication Date: 
01/04/2011
UNCTAD
Tags:
Agriculture, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Cap And Trade, Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV), Carbon Intensity, Livestock, Climate Mitigation, Methane, Rice, India, Agricultural Inputs
Agriculture

Paan loses flavour

Read this special report by Down To Earth on the iconic Paan losing its appeal. Its trade has dipped 40-50 per cent in the past decade, while consumption of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, increased during the period. Farmers now prefer other crops.

Publication Date: 
31/03/2011
Richard Mahapatra, Moyna, Sayantan Bera
Down to Earth
19
21
0
Tags:
Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture, Balasore (D), Cash Crops, Delhi, Exports, Farmers, Irrigation, Mahoba (D), Medicinal Plants, Minor Forest Produce, Orissa (Odisha), Patents, Traditional Knowledge, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Betel Leaf
Agriculture

NABARD ties up with Reuters for providing market information to farmers

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has entered into a tie-up with the international news agency Thompson Reuters' Indian subsidiary to provide market information to farmers.

The one year programme is being introduced in Tamil Nadu from January as a pilot project by NABARD with Reuters Market Light (RML), a unit of Thomson Reuters India, contracted to provide inform

Publication Date: 
11/01/2011
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Agriculture, Tamil Nadu, Agricultural Inputs
Agriculture

Zinc oxideneem oil conditioning for improving the quality of the micronutrient fertilizer zinc sulphate heptahydrate

In India, zinc (Zn) deficiency was first reported in rice by Nene; it is now wide- spread all over the country. The latest report indicates that 49% of Indian soils are deficient in Zn. But good responses of several field and fruit crops to Zn fertilization have been reported from different parts of the country.
 

Publication Date: 
10/01/2011
Rajendra Prasad, I. K. Suri, Y. S. Shivay
Current Science
100
1
0
Tags:
Agriculture, Neem, Agricultural Inputs, Soil Capability
Agriculture

Farmers facing brunt of Govt's wrong policy : PDP

BISHNAH, Dec 14 : Charging Omar Abdullah led coalition regime with adopting anti-farmers policies, People's Democratic Party (PDP) today vowed to expose wrong policies being pursued by the coalition Government.

Addressing a meeting of party workers at Morchapur village of Bishnah Assembly segement, PDP vice president and former Rajya Sabha member Trilok Singh Bajwa termed the present dispensati

Publication Date: 
15/12/2010
Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
Tags:
Farmers, Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture, Jammu & Kashmir

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