Farmers' Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria has said farmers should adopt organic farming with a view to increasing production as well as keeping the soil fertility intact. Organic farming has been in practice in India since ages. Dr.

Over 150 sapota trees, 50 mango trees, 100 coconut trees, 80 jackfruit trees, 200 areca trees, amruthaballi, cashews, coffee, custard apple, ginger, sweet lemon, cardamom, jamun, cinnamon, lemon, papaya, cocoa, vanila, beetle leaves, pumkin, ash guard, tamarind, neem, cactus... the list will go on.

New policy envisages decentralised storage facilities.

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Envisages converting all crops into organic farming mode over the next ten years in a phased and compact manner.

Advocates adopting a compact area group approach

Every local self-government institution will develop model organic farms in select farmers' fields.

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Kozhikode, May 17

NEW DELHI: To commemorate tenth anniversary of the implementation of National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP), a

Sections of Indian government establishment are violating different laws regarding genetically modified food to illegally favour bio-technology multi-national corporations against the interest of citizens,

Addada village in Koppa taluk is emerging as a model organic village. About 100 hectare area of the village had been selected for implementing the organic village mission three years ago, and now it has started yielding fruits.

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New Delhi: A decade after launching the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) to export green products from India, the government is planning to launch a comprehensive web-based traceability software to trace operations from farms to consumers online.