Riding on the momentum generated by the recent food crisis to focus on longer term challenges, some 300 top international experts will meet at FAO in Rome on October 12 and 13 to figure out how to make sure we have enough to eat 40 years from now.
I am extremely happy to note that this year, India Today State of the States Conclave has decided to keep agriculture at the top of its agenda. The topic, "Second Green Revolution: What the States Need to Do", is extremely appropriate though I would modify it slightly to read "Second Green Revolution: What the Nation Needs to Do".
Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who died on Saturday in Texas aged 95, is widely credited with saving more than a billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world.
Borlaug Showed India The Way To Overcome Food Shortage
New Delhi: Long before Mr Bush and Dr Rice came by to leapfrog US-India ties to a new level, it was Prof Wheat who jumpstarted and nourished the relationship. Norman Borlaug, the genial scientist-pacifist who died of cancer in Dallas on Saturday, was as much India
Union for National Industry Trade and Entrepreneurs Nepal (UNITE) has asked the government to concentrate on green revolution campaign for the next five years.
"It is mandatory to chalk out integrated development policy for agriculture and industries," UNITE said adding that the revolution must target surplus food production along with establishment of agro-based and herb-based industries.
There are three different types of drought, not one. There is a meteorological drought, when actual rainfall is deficient (20 per cent below normal) or scanty (60 per cent or more below normal). The Indian Meteorological Department has now declared a deficiency of 29 per cent in the south-west monsoon. Let
As a young agriculture reporter with the Indian Express, Devinder Sharma had covered the success story of Sukhomajri, a village near Chandigarh, where villagers came together to prevent soil erosion and fight for their environment. One of the persons who made that possible was P.R. Mishra.
