Agriculture

Amitabh Sinha The Environment Ministry — which had been at the centre of a major controversy earlier this year following its decision to put the introduction of a genetically-modified variety of brinjal on indefinite hold — may still be able to exercise a lot of control in the proposed new regulatory framework for approval and use of biotechnology products in the country. The Biotechnology

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Kolkata: An eight-member central team, headed by joint-secretary in the agriculture ministry EK Majhi, on Wednesday held a meeting with West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and finance minister Asim Dasgupta to get a first-hand report on the drought situation in the state. The team also held talks with state agriculture minister Naren De, disaster management minister Murtaza Hussa

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In order to encourage the techniques of agriculture conservation, a two-day conference is being organized here on 14 and 15 September at Hotel Ashoka Lake View.

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P Jonathan Ambrose ENS IF New Delhi Metallo-betalactamase (NDM-1)is the latest superbug that is threatening humans, crops too have their share of superbugs. One of them is Papaya Millibug, a pest which has reportedly destroyed most of the crops in Puducherry and southern Tamil NaduCoimbatore, Erode and Tirupattur. N Ganesh of CEAD, an NGO that works with the farmers of the Thavaluppam are

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Gangtok, Sept 8: A presentation and interactive session on organic farming was organized by Food Security and Agriculture Development Department at Chintan Bhawan on Monday. The Government of Sikkim has set a target to convert the State into totally organic State by 2015. The Food Security and Agriculture Development Department had invited FIBL, Switzerland to deliver a talk on organic farming.

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IMPHAL, Sept 8 – Manipur will import 300 metric tonnes of rice from Myanmar from this month to meet the scarcity of rice in the State, official sources said today. The State Government has received the nod of the Centre to import the rice from the neighbouring country. Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Y Erabot yesterday inspected godowns of Food and Civil Supply depart

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HOJAI, Sept 8 – Flash floods occurred during the second week of August as the Jamuna and Dimaru rivers of Hojai subdivision were in spate due to heavy rainfall, inundating more than 50 villages under Hojai and Doboka revenue circles.

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NAMRUP, Sept 8 – The demand for setting up a new fertilizer plant by the name of Namrup IV, considering the viability of the BVFCL’s three plants viz., Namrup I, Namrup-II and Namrup III is a long-standing one.

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CHANDRAKANTNalavade was a junior engineer in the state irrigation department in Osmanabad, in Maharashtra’s Marathwada, with his family cultivating banana, sugarcane and ginger on their 15-acre plot using drip irrigation. Till his visit to an international agriculture exhibition in Israel last year. “The first thing I did after returning from Israel was resign from my government job.

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M Sarita Varma Thiruvananthapuram: As rubber prices soared to Rs 180 per kg, even land, which is not traditionally best suited for rubber is getting converted in Kerala, thus shrinking the area under paddy cultivation. To stop diversion of paddy area towards rubber farms, the Kerala government has decided to implement a Rs 2,111-crore central package for paddy development in Kuttanad distric

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