Agriculture

How sustainable is organic farming?

Demand for organic products continues to grow and outstrip the supply. How organic are these products, when they have to be transported over many miles to reach consumers? And how sustainable is organic produce, when it is grown on large farms, leaving less and less room for biodiversity? Questions like these add another dimension to a debate that has been going on

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
VANAJA RAMPRASAD, Miguel Gamboa
LEISA
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Agriculture, Organic Farming, Agricultural Inputs, Food Prices, Organic Foods, Trade, Farmers, Exports, India
Agriculture

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Engineering graduates return to their villages in Punjab to practise organic farming, fight pesticide overuse

Publication Date: 
27/02/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Industrial Pollution, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Punjab, Bhatinda (T), Jalandhar (D)
Agriculture

Centre okays pilot project for organic tea

NEW DELHI, Feb 25

Publication Date: 
26/02/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Tea, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Assam
Environment

Awareness programme on environment protection

TIRUNELVELI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on environment for bankers, NGOs and farmers recently at Tenkasi to sensitise the stakeholders on environmental degradation and the strategies to mitigate the danger.

Publication Date: 
21/02/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Organic Farming, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), NGO, Tamil Nadu, Tirunelveli (D), Environmental Security
Biodiversity

Promote organic farming with biodiversity

DINDIGUL: Organic farming with biodiversity must be promoted and should be provided with easy access to credit and marketing.

Publication Date: 
20/02/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Biodiversity, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Tamil Nadu, Dindigul (D)
Solid Waste

Imphal gets its first solid waste management plant

IMPHAL, Feb 8

Publication Date: 
09/02/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Solid Waste, Organic Waste, Waste Management, Manipur, Imphal (D)
Health

Learning to eat right: The Annam festival in Kerala shows how

The Annam festival held in the last week of December 2008, in Thiruvananthapuram is the first event of its kind. It is a brave attempt to bring focus to the growing concern over the present food habits in Kerala and the deleterious effects they are having on public health.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Shree Padre
Civil Society
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Home Gardens, Organic Farming, Organic Foods, Processed Foods, Fast Foods, Health Effects, Health, Consumption Patterns, Traditional Knowledge, Kerala
Environment

 Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

Karnataka farmer paid the price for resisting a polluting distillery, sand mining In early mornings, a portly old man would sneak into the fields in Chikballapur

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
Deepa Kozhisseri
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Land Pollution, Organic Farming, Mining, Industrial Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, Farmers, Environmentalists, Karnataka, Water Pollution
Agriculture

 No to organic farming

Punjab farmer commission says it

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
Savvy Soumya Misra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Natural Fertilisers, Animal Dung, Punjab
Agriculture

Integrated farming gaining acceptance in Kuttanad

ALAPPUZHA: Integrated farming is fast gaining acceptance among local farmers as those ventured into it have begun to get good returns. Being promoted with organic concepts, integrated farming is slowly gaining acceptance even among those who initially shirked it.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Farmers, Kerala

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