A US jury on Wednesday awarded $80 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused his cancer, in the latest legal setback for the company, which is facing thousands of similar lawsuits. The jury in San Francisco federal court said the…
March 2019
Not many 24-year-olds would choose to ditch well-paying jobs and take up farming. But Mumbai-based Joshua Lewis and Sakina Rajkotwala decided to take the leap after a visit to Auroville in Puducherry in 2017 where they were inspired by Krishna Mckenzie, a native of England, who’s “…
Speaking on the occasion of inauguration of 3-day Natural and Organic Products Mela on Friday at Night Bazar at Shilparamam at Madhapur, Dinesh Dattatreya Kulkarni, All India Organising Secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh said that it would help promote Organic Farming and Products…
We depend on plants and trees for our survival - for food, clothing, shelter, furniture etc. UN Conference on Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972 marked the beginning of serious discussion about the importance of trees. The subject was discussed at length at the Rio de Janeiro…
“Farmers all over India relied on the MNCs for seeds and bought them for exorbitant prices, along with chemicals. They became susceptible to drought and famine because they gave up traditional methods of farming. And burdened by the losses resulting from chemical farming, they…
He was aware that during the Green Revolution scores of farmers across the country had turned to chemical fertilisers and pesticides to increase production. And while such practices did offer farmers short-term benefits, they rendered acres of land unsuitable for farming due to the…
The foundation members said spreading awareness regarding chemical-free farming and curbing use of pesticides in the coming cotton crop season in the state would be their main target.
“With excessive and constant use of pesticides in farming, the soil health has deteriorated…
True role models they are. They live under one roof and work together on the field. All the 50 members of this joint family are at work in their fields at the first light. What’s more, they have converted nearly 70 acres of farmland into organic farming fields and are aiming to do…
This year, the food safety and standards authority of India made it mandatory that for a product to be marketed as organic, it should have the organic certification. So traders have started to emphasize organic farmers to get their produce certified,” she said. The directorate…