Minister says government committed to organic farming
Decontamination of soil to be part of package
Decision on farmers' pension scheme to be taken
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister K.P.

In a startling revelation, 12 brands of organic tea, tested by the Consumer Education and Research Society (CERS) in Ahmedabad, showed traces of heavy metals in them.

After a much-delayed harvesting and lifting of wheat, the farmers of Punjab are now worried about two other major crops

Move to phase out hazardous ones. KAU has released a package on

In Uddanam in Srikakulam district, an estimated 10,000 people have died in the last seven years of just one ailment

Bosco Acope and his family tend their farm in Atek, Uganda, where the government's use of DDT has threatened their livelihood.

Growing up as a child here along the muggy, isolated plains of northern Uganda, life was not easy. His parents were poor. He did not attend secondary school. Many of his friends died from bouts of malaria, a scourge that has plagued this agrarian society.

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'Malgaon' is a village of East Nimad in Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh. Rain precipitation is not satisfactory in this village. The average rainfall of the village is around 850 mm but last few years the village has been experiencing only 428 mm rainfall. The scanty rainfall is also affecting Kharif crop with the crisis of drinking and fodder.

A frail frame hid beneath a layer of green shawl and a head covered with a white turban is deceptive attire, for it conceals the steely determination that organic farming scientist G. Nammalvar has.