The state government will promote vegetable and banana farming in a big way to help small and marginal farmers to augment their income.

This was stated by chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission GS Kalkat, who was in the city to attend a function. He said after a research, it had come to the fore that high value crops like fruits and vegetables were ideally suited for such farmers.

BHUBANESWAR: If things go as planned, Orissa prisons may show the way in organic farming.

In fact, the open air jail at Jamujhari, which boasts of 111 acre farm land, already is into organic farming.

Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year.

L.N. Revathy

Coimbatore, Oct. 12 Hill banana, also known as

In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted parts of the fruit's plant, which are usually thrown away as waste, into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values.

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In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted those parts of the fruit's plant which are usually thrown away as waste into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values.

Banana plant

The government has allocated 35,000 acres of land in the Trincomalee District for Banana cultivation to a private company, while the people in the area don