-The Hindu Kochi (Kerala): The State Horticulture Mission (SHM) is planning to implement organic farming and certification in 2,000 hectares in the State. The programme is to be implemented initially in the three districts of Idukki, Wayanad and Kasaragod during 2014-15, under the guidance of the National Horticulture Mission (NHM). Under the programme, financial assistance will be provided over a period of three years for groups of Farmers covering an area of...

-CNN-IBN New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the central government on a petition seeking direction to take steps to prevent the increasing number of suicides by the Farmer in different parts of the country on account of their difficult financial conditions. There is a suicide by a Farmer in distress every 32 minute, the plea said. Seeking the government's response over growing incidence of suicides by Farmers, the bench...

-The Business Standard The facility provides latest technical information on agriculture and allied activities to Farmers of Andhra and Telangana Andhra Bank on Monday launched ‘Andhra Bank Kisaan Vaani', a new facility which provides latest technical information on agriculture and allied activities to Farmers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana through ‘Green SIM'-based voice message, in association with Iffco Kisaan Sanchar Limited (IKSL). IKSL has developed a green SIM for transfer of voice messages...

-The Business Standard WTO reconvenes to re-examine issue of agriculture subsidies, numbers alone suggest that India has a strong case for declining to sign WTO's TFA The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is reconvening in the last week of September to examine the issue of agricultural subsidies against the backdrop of India's refusal to become a signatory to the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) at Bali. Since then, a lot of water has flowed...

-The Hindu At least five cases have been reported in recent times from western part of the State Meerut (Uttar Pradesh): When Rahul, a sugarcane Farmer in Badaut area of Baghpat district in western U.P., shot himself on the night of September 13, he had a debt of Rs. 12 lakh. Rahul shot himself with his brother's licensed rifle in his house in Dhikana village. Anil Kumar, the Station House Officer of Badaut...