Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar called for tapping the growing demand for organic food in domestic and international market for the benefit of farmers and the country.
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.
State Finance Minister Raghavji has said that the State Government wants that Madhya Pradesh should become the organic State and process of indigenous independency should speed up as it has been done earlier through the Akhil Bharatiya Swadeshi Sangh.
He was speaking on the occasion on two-day organic training workshop in the Hindi Bhavan.
Chennai: You knew that organic food is pesticide-free, it has no preservatives or added colours and, so of course, that it is the healthier choice. But did you know that this category has been largely recession-proof too? In the past year, through the economic slowdown and commodities price inflation, organic food was one market that continued to grow.
THERE is unlikely to be any decision on Bt food crops till next year. Dr K Kasturirangan, who is discussing the controversial issue of biotechnology and food crops with the scientific community, will present a detailed review report in December this year.
A tea from Kurseong hill station was served at the Beijing Olympics.
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The European Union, where genetically modified food crops face stiff opposition on grounds of health and environmental risk, has approved the cultivation of GM potato
