For 20 years, R Selvam has been painstackingly growing paddy, groundnut, coco nut and sesame seeds organically in his 2.8-hectare farmland in Tamil Nadu’s Arachalur village. But July 1 onwards, Selvam can no longer sell the produce to organic retail stores due to a new regulation…
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Water literacy and organic farming have now made it to college education. In a rare initiative, a college in Dakshina Kannada has begun teaching them as certificate courses from this year.The Sacred Heart Degree College at Madantyar, near Belthangady, which was offering these…
B. Shivakumar, an entrepreneur-industrialist, started farming about five years ago on 40 acres at Sathyamangalam. In 2015, seeing the impact of chemicals on soil, he decided to go organic and it took him one-and-a-half years to clear the land, take up green mulching, and start…
The guidelines for providing assistance for various post harvest management/ value chain development activities including infrastructure development, branding, marketing are given. Cost of organic agriculture largely depends on on-farm generation of inputs. When on-farm organic…
Rajasekaran, 35, is clad in khaki shorts and red sneakers, and earphones dangle from his ears. Formerly an IT professional, he worked in the bustle of Bengaluru for almost seven years before getting tired of the city and moving back to the Nilgiris, where he had spent his early…
For 20 years, R Selvam has been painstackingly growing paddy, groundnut, coco nut and sesame seeds organically in his 2.8-hectare farmland in Tamil Nadu’s Arachalur village. But July 1 onwards, Selvam can no longer sell the produce to organic retail stores due to a new regulation…
The U.S. organic food market size is expected to reach USD 70.4 billion by 2025 as a result of…
A recent study conducted by Zion Market Research, estimated the global organic food and beverage market to be worth 124.76 billion in 2017 alone. Their new report estimates this market to nearly triple, as it is expected to reach 323…
Healthy children’s food in India never really had a chance to be perceived as cool – in part due to packaging that failed to appeal to kids, unlike cheap and unhealthy fast food brands. That perception needed to change, and that’s what two young mothers - one a former public health…
Many rice products are used as an ingredient in food preparation, but all of them might not be rice based. One of such rice product is organic rice syrup which is used as the ingredient in the preparation of various food. Organic rice syrup is a low-calorie sweetener used as an…