-The Hindu Known for their hunting skills, the Yanadis catch 30 to 40 rats each day against odds in the slushy paddy fields ONGOLE (Andhra Pradesh): Pied piper got rid of rat menace by just playing his pipe in the German town of Hamelin in the medieval period, according to a legend. The job of pest controllers is not that easy as playing a tune on one's pipe despite advancement in science and...
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Integrated Farming: The Only Way to Survive a Rising Sea -Manipadma Jena
-IPS News SUNDARBANS, India- When the gentle clucking grows louder, 50-year-old Sukomal Mandal calls out to his wife, who is busy grinding ingredients for a fish curry. She gets up to thrust leafy green stalks through the netting of a coop and two-dozen shiny hens rush forward for lunch. In the Sundarbans, where the sea is slowly swallowing up the land, Mandal's half-hectare farm is an oasis of prosperity. The elderly couple resides...
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-The Hindu Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu): Efforts are under way to procure pulses, including black gram and green gram, directly from farmers in the district. These pulses would be procured with the help of the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Marketing Federation at fair price from farmers to avoid middlemen, Collector M. Ravikumar said here on Monday. The procured pulses would be marketed through farm fresh vegetable outlet and also despatched to markets in Chennai. The...
More »Odisha to bring agri resource allocation plan this fiscal -Sadananda Mohapatra
-Business Standard The plan will ensure effective distribution of resources from various schemes Bhubaneswar (Odisha): The agricultural directorate will prepare a resource allocation plan by end of March 2015, after consulting Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) and district planning committees. The aim of the plan will be to identify needs to develop farm products yield in each district such as planning to invest in soil preparation, crop diversification or irrigation...
More »Small and marginal farmers in distress -R Ramakumar and Aparajita Bakshi
-The Hans India It is official now. New data released by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) for 2013 show that the agrarian distress in rural India is continuing, and even intensifying for small and marginal farmers. In the last decade, there has been much talk on inclusive growth, revival of growth rates in agriculture, higher public investment in agriculture and the doubling of agricultural credit. Yet, the new data show...
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