KOLKATA, 10 DEC: The West Bengal horticulture department is planning to set up six multi-purpose cold storage units in the state under the National Horticulture Mission.
Now days due to economic security, paddy-wheat rotation is prevalent in Punjab. This crop rotation has directly or indirectly caused a lot of ecological, economic and health problems. According to Indian Council of Medical Research, a healthy person should consume 300g vegetables, 40g pulses and negligible quanity of fruits per person per day.
As eight states have said no to Union government's plan to approve Bt Brinjal, this timely booklet by Greenpeace details its impacts on environment & health and opposes the commercial release of this GM Crop.
The state government will promote vegetable and banana farming in a big way to help small and marginal farmers to augment their income.
This was stated by chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission GS Kalkat, who was in the city to attend a function. He said after a research, it had come to the fore that high value crops like fruits and vegetables were ideally suited for such farmers.
AS INDIA debates over adopting genetically modified (GM) brinjal imported from the West and the issues surrounding this, Vadodara-based Science Ashram, supported by Gujarat Life Science (GLS), has developed a Twenty20 agri-bio inputs for the brinjal crop that not only improves productivity but busts the myth that brinjal cannot be grown without pesticides.
A GROUP of environmentalists and lawyers under the banner of Federation for Sustainable Development staged a demonstration here on Monday against the development of Bt brinjal varieties on the TNAU premises. The demonstrators shouted slogans just as Governor Surjit Singh Barnala was about to arrive at the university for its convocation ceremony, creating a flutter.
EVEN as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) like the Federation for Sustainable Development has vehemently opposed the research on Bt Brinjal, the project director of Chandrayaan, Mylswamy Annadurai, lauded the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) for successfully developing four varieties of Bt Brinjal in its farm here.
: The landmark decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, on October 14 to allow the release of BT Brinjal has been viewed by some as the government
