Full Coverage: Agriculture

29.01.2007 Eighty-four call centres across the country are answering farmers’ queries related to everything from fungus on brinjals to kisan credit cards and prices of insecticides.

25.01.2007 50 Reasons to buy Fair Trade by Miles Litvinoff and John Madeley, published by Pluto Press, will be released on 26th February 2007 to mark the start of Fairtrade Fortnight 2007. Planned promotions include an author tour to Fairtrade Towns and an appearance at the Peak Literary Festival in the UK.

25.01.2007 via AutoblogGreen:
Raising farm animals for food is the primary cause for all sorts of disasters, the least of which are air pollution and global warming. "We are eating our planet to death," says Kathy Freston.

24.01.2007 Farmers in the developing world are increasingly turning to genetically modified crops, with planting up 21 per cent in 2006 according to a new report.

18.01.2007 from solarsaddle:
'Biofuels promise such wonderful benefits, don't they? Shame that the whole idea is a pile of codswallop.'

10.01.2007 After Andhra Pradesh, it is now Tamil Nadu where the much hyped Bt cotton seeds of Mahyco has run into rough weather. The Tamil Nadu government has asked Mahyco to pay compensation to farmers for failure of Bt cotton in the state in the current season

09.01.2007 from It's the Planet, Stupid! blog:
Severe gales, endless heavy rain and mildness. Come to think of it, that's just what the climate models predict for a warming world, isn't it?

08.01.2007 A roadmap prepared by the National Commission on Farmers, chaired by M S Swaminathan, insists that only a Rs 39,500-crore subsidy for a universal public distribution system can solve the food security problem. Is this practicable? argues Ashok Gopal.

08.01.2007 Much hyped in 2005 and launched in 2006, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the country’s most ambitious social welfare programme, must gain momentum in the new year, writes Pamela Philipose