Thanks to late arrival of the monsoon and the drought-like situation witnessed in most parts of the country, especially at the sources of production, prices of potato and onion to continue to remain high in the State till the arrival of fresh crops in October.
Contract farming if carefully planned and executed, provides a win-win situation for both the producer and processors. It ensures better linkage between farm and market where processor gets timely and consistent supply of raw material of the desired quality at low cost. The contract farmers in the study were the potato farmers who were under contract with the Frito Lays of Pepsi.
KOHIMA, May 21: The department of Agriculture in Nagaland is venturing into seed production by farmers themselves. This year Breeder seeds of potato were issued to selected farmers of Southern Angami area and the crops is showing excellent performance as anticipated by the department.
When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped through the Seven Years
The humble potato has come a long way IN 1852, Karl Marx described the peasantry as a sack of potatoes. The fickle attitude of farmers towards the short-lived Paris Commune had irked the old revolutionary. He would be a little less condescending towards peasants, elsewhere. But according to all evidence never thought it necessary to redeem himself with potatoes. The potato has been
Seed business is thriving in the country backed by a number of corporate biggies who came up to grab a slice of around Tk 1,000 crore market for hybrid and high-yield seeds.
Speakers at a seminar held here on Monday stressed the need for sustainable development of agricultural sector in Baltistan.
They said people of the region were self-sufficient in wheat and other agricultural products in the past but presently they were paying less attention to this sector due to which the area had become dependent on imported wheat and other eatables.
Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said on Monday she will allow test cultivation of a potato containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Open air trials of the GMO potato Amflora, developed by German chemicals group BASF presented no threat to public health or the environment, she said.
