Bird flu has struck the country again. This time in the State Duck Breeding Farm in Agartala that has been ordered to cull all PoUltry within a radius of 3 km of the farm. The State will also impose a ban on movement of PoUltry and its products and order closure of all PoUltry egg market and outlets within a radius of 10 km. With this incidence, India has lost the...
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Tobacco in plastic PoUches: Supreme Court rejects plea by J Venkatesan
Taking note of the report that 86 per cent of the oral cancer in India was caused by tobacco products, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the plea of various gutka, pan masala and chewing tobacco manufacturing companies for postponement of the December 7, 2010 order banning the use of plastic as packaging material for their products from March 1 this year. A Bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly...
More »Pesticide-rich food by Savvy Soumya Misra
Agriculture department confirms high pesticide residues THE country’s regulators have failed to check the flow of pesticides into the food chain, suggests a monitoring report of the Department of Agriculture and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, the country’s premier institute. Fruits, vegetables, PoUltry and milk are all laced with high pesticide residues —much above the maximum residue limits (MRL) set by the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act of 1954. Samples of...
More »Galloping Growth, and Hunger in India by Vikas Bajaj
The 50-year-old farmer knew from experience that his onion crop was doomed when torrential rains PoUnded his fields throughout September, a month when the Indian monsoon normally peters out. For lack of modern agricultural systems in this part of rural India, his land does not have adequate drainage trenches, and he has no safe, dry place to store onions. The farmer, Arun Namder Talele, said he lost 70 percent of...
More »Project that brought many farmers out of debts by MJ Prabu
In 2-3 years after implementation, money generation was seen Melaneelithanallur village in Tirunelveli district is bone dry most of the year. Lack of water for crops over the years turned the soil into dry wastelands, considered unfit for use. “Until a few years ago, almost all the farmers in the region wallowed in debt and poverty. Many households lacked even proper metal utensils for cooking as the inhabitants used to pawn...
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