Inorder to highlight the the huge potential in organic farming in India and to provide inputs for starting an organic venture, CII

Environmental activists were arrested outside Parliament on Monday while they attempted to stage a demonstration to protest against the new fertiliser subsidy regime.

Members of Greenpeace India had planned a rally even as the Finance Bill was being passed to demand an alternative subsidy system to promote ecological farming but were detained by the police and released later.

Ravish Tiwari

In the din of concerns expressed over agriculture in Parliament, a small

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought German assistances for tapping all sources of renewable energy in the country and facing the challenges of global climate change.

She wished for the cooperation when German Ambassador Frank Meyke made a farewell call on her at the PM's office in the morning.

The fertiliser ministry may come up with guidelines for the new subsidy policy in the next two months, whereby the dole out amount is likely to be fixed by the government in advance, throwing fertiliser prices open to change in sync with market realities.

Federal government has provided Rs 1607.012 million for providing training and latest agriculture input technology to small farmers to enhance per acre yield and increase their income with collective market mechanism and small agro business interventions in Sindh.

New Delhi: Thanks to the sharp slump in the prices of farm nutrients in the global markets, the government

K. Balchand

NEW DELHI: Greenpeace India and the Institute of Agriculture, Visva Bharathi University, West Bengal, have demanded that the government look into an alternative subsidy system that will promote ecological farming.