The government is promoting organic farming through many schemes and 22.5 lakh hectares have been brought under such cultivation so far, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today.
June 2018
As per the study conducted by the International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture in eight cities in India, there is huge market for organic food. There are opportunities for organic farming business.
Mr Sarangi operates on a simple, yet brilliant model. Each year, he gives the surplus of organic seeds to local farmers, who in turn pledge four kgs of seeds after their harvest, to him. This movement is popular—each year, more than a hundred farmers from local districts come and…
The new farming technique entails use of traditional inputs for getting better productivity from the field without hampering soil fertility that is a common result of using chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
The share of nations involved in organic farming, according to International Federation Of Organic Agriculture Moment (IFOAM), leaves India at ninth rank with Australia on top with 22.7 million hectares of land used for organic farming.
So that was the bitter truth. All the sowing, watering, weeding, harvesting and cleaning are done at the farm. The cost of labour, seeds, water and electricity is borne by the farmer. But the bulk of the profits go to the trader who just packs the material and charges a bomb from…
Traditional farmers including women in Balishankara block of Sundargarh district are gradually resorting to ecological farming with use of less expensive organic manures and indigenous seeds.Ecological farming free from chemical inputs and genetic engineering contents promotes…
Farmers should limit use of pesticides and adopt organic farming as excessive use of such chemicals could impact the ecological balance, a senior Haryana government official said Monday.
Organic industry needs to re-evaluate zero tolerance of genetically modified crops: WA Farmers group
There are very few places around the world that have zero tolerance when you're talking about other things in a crop, whether it's barley in wheat or wheat in barley or canola in wheat or anything else, there is always a level there, no zeros.
The harvest which will be held as a festival will see the staging of plays based on the themes of farming and rural life.Bharat Bhavan member-secretary Pramod Payyannur said the workshop will be held in association with Viva Cultural Development Organisation is aimed at…