Ranchi, Aug. 17: Jharkhand is set to hop on to the organic farming bandwagon this financial year.

With an aim to promote the availability of pesticide free food for all citizens, the Alliance for Safe Food, led by Kheti Virasat Mission, is to organize a two-day food festival to be held at Punja

As part of encouraging organic farming, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has launched ‘Amrut Bhoomi’, a Rs 200-crore organic farming scheme.

Bumper crop of vegetables, herbs despite insufficient rain

Equating the serious health hazards wrecked in the district due to the indiscriminate exposure of endosulfan pesticide for over two decades with that of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, acclaimed environmental activist Sunita Narain has said that the major task before the administration was to bring hopes and cheers back to the life of the hapless victims of the “killer” pesticide spraying.

“Assuaging the hurt feelings of the hundreds of victims of aerial spraying of the endosulfan pesticide in the state owned cashew estates in the district is the most important task before the administration and the State government and the local Member of Parliament had played critical role in partially assuaging the hurt feeling of the ill-fated victims and their families”, the Padmashree award winning environmentalist said.

MUMBAI: The state government is seriously considering switching from genetically modified (GM) cotton to more conventional cotton seeds.