They dedicate all Saturdays for vegetable cultivation

Environmentalist C.P. Roy travels to Valiyakandam in Idukki every Saturday from Kottayam with the excitement of a budding farmer. He is part of a group of 21 families who came together to produce organic vegetables for their own consumption. They also sell the vegetables at a higher market price. “There is good demand for organic vegetables,” says C.P. Roy.

Jan 20, Colombo: Vegetable farmers in Sri Lanka's North Central Province have taken to the streets demanding compensation from the authorities.Soy farmers in the Galenbidunuwewa have resorted to st

Farmers of the Valley have been found to supply their produce in the market, neglecting the time period required to let the effects of pesticides used in growing them subside.

Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) will soon install the ‘Rapid Bioassay for Pesticide Residue Analysis’ (RBPRA) technology at Kalimati Fruits and Vegetables Market to measure the maximum r

Use of pesticides in different farm products including food grains and vegetables has suddenly jumped up in the country in the past few years.

Apprehensions of various sections must be allayed: M.S. Swaminathan

In matters relating to genetically modified (GM) food crops, the government should ‘hasten cautiously,’ said eminent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan. He was speaking on the sidelines of a visit to the Wheat Breeding Research Station of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) at Wellington, near here, on Tuesday.