Full Coverage: Agriculture

31.10.2006 from Green Wombat blog:
'I look at the face of renewable energy and it looks back at me with big brown eyes and says, "Moo."'

28.10.2006 World Food Day, commemorated on October 16, has become more of an exercise in expiation of sins than a renewal of a serious commitment to end hunger.

16.10.2006 Today, October 16 Global - the day also commemorates the creation of the United Nations World Food Program in 1954. The UN recognizes that today, agriculture has contributed to human civilization by improving nutrition and living standards. It has ensured the production and distribution of agricultural, fishery and forestry products and enough food to feed everyone on this planet. The theme for the World Food Day 2006 is "Investing in agriculture for food security."

09.10.2006 The gap between potential and actual yields is high in most parts of India. The principles of conservation, particularly with reference to land and water, need to be integrated with farming practices, says M.S. Swaminathan.

05.10.2006 from aboutMyPlanet:
'Every day, approximately five produce delivery trucks roll past my home. They’re bringing tomatoes from California, along with apples, mushrooms, and carrots from other parts of the U.S. I live in Ontario where farmers produce all of these things and more.'

04.10.2006 Meenakshi Datta Ghosh, the secretary of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj opened a phone-based information service for farmers, ‘Soochna Se Samadhan Sewa'. The service, which is part of a new community project in support of one of the UN Millennium Development goals on digital inclusion, is aimed at helping developing countries to become part of the digital society.