Agriculture

Organic farmers develop rating system

Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN

Ahmedabad: In a novel initiative, state farmers have established their own system for organic certification. Vadodarabased NGO Jatan and farmers associated with it are responsible for the venture.

Publication Date: 
19/09/2008
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Farmers, Gujarat
Agriculture

Hill garden to get UN funds for organic tea

Ambootia tea garden (Kurseong), Sept. 18: A UN body will partially fund three pilot projects worth $4 million in India for creating a scientific system for cultivation of organic black tea.

Publication Date: 
19/09/2008
Tags:
Organic Farming, Tea, FAO, Siliguri
Agriculture

85 pc area under Bt cotton

This news will certainly not please the critics of genetically modified (GM) seeds.

Publication Date: 
18/09/2008
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Cotton, GM Crops, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Chandigarh
Agriculture

No solution to mealy bug, new Bt cotton variety next year

Certain reports have raised doubts over biotech crops, but they are as safe as conventional ones and the success of Bt cotton can be replicated in other crops.

Publication Date: 
18/09/2008
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Cotton, GM Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Punjab
Agriculture

Sustainable wastewater management in the European Union

The scope of this paper is safe and sustainable sanitation in agriculture. Specifically, the idea of the paper is to find out the existing regulations and guidelines concerning a sustainable wastewater management in the European Union (EU), regarding small-scale on-site wastewater management, and particularly regarding the safe reuse of the source separated wastewater

Publication Date: 
15/09/2008
Sanna-Mari Kuisma
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Wastewater Recycling, Waste Management, Legislation, WHO, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

What is your dinner doing to the climate?

Your shopping basket is spewing greenhouse gases. But don't worry, you can easily cut out the culprits: a report.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2008
Bijal Trivedi
New Scientist
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Tags:
Organic Farming, Livestock, Organic Foods, Fish, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Consumption Patterns, Europe, United States Of America (US)
Agriculture

Organic farming and its importance (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
11/09/2008
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Chemical Fertilisers, Pesticides, India
Agriculture

Organic paddy harvesting performed

The harvesting of organic paddy cultivated by the Vadakkencherry Padashekhara Samithi was performed here on Thursday.

The Vadakkencherry Padashekhara Samithi consisting of 40 farmers had grown paddy in a 75 acre area. This was the second harvest festival being held here. Last year organic paddy cultivation was experimented in the paddy fields here with the co-operation of the Vadakkencherry grama panchayat and the Department of Agriculture.

Publication Date: 
05/09/2008
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Rice, Kerala, Alappuzha (D), Palakkad (D)
Agriculture

Organic Approach to Life

Sresta helps many farmers switch to a sustainable route of organic farming

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Farmers, Indian Institute Of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (D)
Agriculture

Orissa state agriculture policy 2008

This policy is intended to help in rejuvenating the agriculture sector of Orissa and bringing lasting improvement in the economic condition of the farmers. An integrated implementation of the intentions of the Government would definitely achieve the targeted annual growth rate of 4 per cent during the Eleventh Five Year Plan and ensure food and nutritional security to all the citizens of the State.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Government of Orissa
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Agricultural Inputs, Seeds, Horticulture, Floriculture, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Orissa (Odisha)

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