Ahmedabad: In order to promote the agro-processing industry in the state and encourage global brands to cultivate tailor-made crops suitable to their industries, the Gujarat government will allow lease agreement of farmland.
Despite the fact the state government has been encouraging contract farming for over five years now, only seven companies have signed agreements with
Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where information gaps exist, despite the variety of extension approaches in India.
This study presents the patterns and determinants of agricultural systems of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong, and modeling of food security and environmental degradation, and climate change impacts.
Looking to scale up sourcing of agricultural products from India, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores said on Tuesday that its joint venture with the Bharti group will rope in 35,000 farmers by 2015 to its supply chain.
"We are already making a contribution to India's agricultural sector by working with a large number of farmers in Punjab.
The basic purpose of this manual is to provide the users of data/information on Agricultural Prices and Marketing with a ready?to?use reference guide on methodological aspects of Agricultural Prices and Marketing that facilitate international comparison and help in aggregation of statistics needed to derive meaningful conclusions.
The farmers in Kurigram have started the cultivation of short duration rice during the rainy season.
Farmers and farm labourers are now busy with preparing land and planting seedlings in their field ignoring heavy showers of rain.
The target of cultivation of short duration rice in five districts of Greater Rangpur district has been fixed on 73,000 hectares of land.
Farmers are choosin
To feed the world without further damaging the planet, Jeffrey Sachs and 24 food-system experts call for a global data collection and dissemination network to track the myriad impacts of different farming practices.
Examining:Collector M. Jayaraman evaluating the performance of weeder equipment at Tharuvai near Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli on Thursday.
TIRUNELVELI: Collector M. Jayaraman evaluated the performance of the newly introduced weeder equipment in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) paddy fields at Tharuvai near here on Thursday.
Kolkata: At a time when productivity is dwindling in West Bengal, farmers are trying out a new method, Systemic Rice Intensification, to increase productivity. The new method uses 40% less water and has helped increase production by 20% in some blocks of the state.
