Agriculture

Farmers in UP should not worry for fertilisers: IFFCO

Lucknow: If Indian Farmers

Publication Date: 
10/09/2010
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Farmers, Fertiliser Industry, Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh
Agriculture

Enhancing crop water productivity to ameliorate groundwater decline

Increased use of fresh water supplies in agricultural and non-agricultural activities in the past few decades has caused an alarming rate of groundwater depletion in many regions of the world. This threatens the sustenance of crop production and the ensuing food security.

Publication Date: 
09/09/2010
S. S. Prihar, V. K. Arora, S. K. Jalota
Current Science
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Tags:
Agriculture, Groundwater, Water Management, Indo-Gangetic Plains, India, Green Revolution, Canal Irrigation, Groundwater Recharge, Punjab, Agricultural Inputs, Groundwater Irrigation
Agriculture

Farmers sweat it out for a bag of fertiliser

Warangal, Aug. 25: Policemen standing guard during distribution of subsidised fertilisers to farmers has become a common sight in almost all mandals of Warangal.

Local police are said to be under pressure, especially in those mandals where irrigation facility for farmers is made available through medium and hundreds of minor irrigation tanks.

Publication Date: 
26/08/2010
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Farmers, Agricultural Inputs, Warangal (D), Agriculture
Agriculture

After BHP bid, Potash white knight may be in China

BHP Billiton

Publication Date: 
21/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture, India, China, Chemical Fertilisers
Agriculture

Smart cards to log fertiliser purchase details; direct subsidy plan scrapped

Gireesh Chandra Prasad

New Delhi: The government has dropped its plan to give fertiliser subsidy directly to the farmer announced in this year

Publication Date: 
12/08/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Subsidies, Agricultural Inputs, Agriculture, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Agriculture

Challenges of soil quality of Indian soils vis--vis food security

Soil quality (SQ) is the capacity of a specific kind of a soil to function, within natural and managed ecosystem boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and air quality, and support human health and habitation.

Publication Date: 
09/08/2010
S. Chand
Current Science
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3
278
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Security, Soil Capability, Land Use, Soil Science, Land Degradation, Agricultural Inputs
Agriculture

Stop indiscriminate use of pesticides

Tobacco Board in association with
M/s ITC-ABD ILimited, Mysore
have jointly undertaken a massive campaign appealing to farmers against
indiscriminate usage of pesticides on tobacco crop quality due to pesticide
residues.

Publication Date: 
05/08/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Pesticide Use, Agricultural Inputs, Pesticides And Toxins, Mysore (D), Karnataka, Tobacco, Hassan (D)
Pesticides And Toxins

Planters find ally in endosulfan to combat berry borer in coffee

A Srinivas

An estimated 10 per cent of Karnataka's coffee growers are using endosulfan

Publication Date: 
28/07/2010
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs, Coffee, Pesticides And Toxins, Endosulfan, Karnataka, Business Line (New Delhi)
Agriculture

Fake fertilisers hit Kadapa farmers

July 22: Spurious fertilisers are causing concern to farmers in Kadapa district. There is a great demand for fertilisers in the district as kharif season is coming to an end. In this backdrop, fake fertilisers are being imported into the district.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2010
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Agricultural Inputs, Farmers, Fertiliser Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Agriculture

Looking back on the drought year

Yoginder K Alagh

Publication Date: 
16/07/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs, Economy, Drought, Financial Express (New Delhi)

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