-The Hindustan Times Bhatinda: With the paddy transplantation season set to start from June 10 across the state officially, Farmers have started search for the labour and are making rounds of railway stations and bargaining hard with the migrant workers to fix the deal. As the Farmers had faced acute shortage of workforce in the last paddy season in the state, they are making sure that they do not have to...
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Jind Farmers root for pesticide-free produce-Parvesh Sharma
-The Tribune Jind: There's a novel experiment underway in an acre-and-a-half at Jind's Nidana village. A group of Farmers, most of them illiterate, are out to prove a point to scientists and experts: agriculture is possible without pesticides and more profitable than with the use of pesticides. Scientists of the Delhi-based National Centre for Integrated Pest Management New Delhi (NCIPM), with the help of the state Agriculture Department, have taken an acre-and-a-half...
More »The Idyll-Maker Who Built Timbaktu -Swati Sharma
-The New Indian Express Back in 1989, the area near Chennakothapalli village of Anantapur (the second driest area in India) in Andhra Pradesh was a wasteland. Till C K Ganguly (Bablu) and Mary Vattamattam chanced upon it in 1991 and saw its immense potential to blossom into a green paradise. The couple, along with friend John D'Souza, then bought 32 acres of this barren land. Inspired by Japanese author Masanobu Fufuoka's seminal...
More »Union budget: Vidarbha Farmers demand Rs 30,000 cr package
-PTI The group has also urged the govt to constitute a national-level Commission, which looks into measures to prevent farmer suicides Nagpur: Farmers in the Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have demanded a Rs 30,000 crore development package from the upcoming Union Budget. In view of the neglected Farmers, it was high time that the central government looks at agrarian crisis seriously in Vidarbha and announce a hefty development package, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS)...
More »Against the grain-Surinder Sud
-The Business Standard Millet is not only a rich source of nutrition but also mitigates climate change. It's time it was treated on a par with wheat and rice Dubbed by the health-savvy as nutri-grains, millet has been the victim of uncalled-for neglect. It has gradually been eased out of Farmers' fields as well as from consumers' menu because of ill-advised procurement and price support policies. Even those who traditionally consumed millet,...
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