-PTI Government today said it is promoting use of organic fertilisers and studies have shown that farm yields have not fallen where use of chemical fertilisers was restricted. Rural Development Minister Birender Singh told Lok Sabha a scheme to empower woman farmers has made positive impact as it supplements their income and use of Manures like cow dung is encouraged under the scheme. "Yields have not gone down. It has come up......

-The Financial Express   Rice cultivation through flooded cultivation method, often seen as a source of methane emissions, which contribute to global warming, does not release carbon into the atmosphere, a study by the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), a premier body under the ministry of agriculture, has stated. Instead, the study has said the tropical low land submerged ecosystem in mainly eastern India is a ‘net carbon sink not a carbon...

-The Hindu It can be turned as green Manure TIRUNELVELI (Tamil Nadu): Farmers in rain-fed areas of the district have cultivated pulses as intercrop in orchards not only for good revenue but also to benefit from pulses' ability to nourish the soil to ensure better yield in the main crop also. Pulses are cultivated as intercrop in most of the orchards so as to enrich the soil indirectly for enhanced microbial activity as...

-The Hindu Thanks to application of bio-fertilizers, green Manure Cumbum (Tamil Nadu): A paddy farmer in Cumbum Pudhupatti village has got a bumper yield this year, setting a new record in yield per hectare, thanks to the application of bio-fertilizers, green Manure, proper split application of chemical fertilizers and adoption of modern agriculture practices. He has harvested 15.8 tonnes per hectare against the district average of 10 tonnes this season. It was the...

-The Hindu The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2014 sought to recognise projects that work towards improving the urban conditions of communities in Delhi We know what's going wrong, and we ask the right questions; questions which crop up while our car drives down narrow roads with broken street lights, landfills spilling over with waste we have created from nothing, and slums we cannot really imagine the insides of. Our city is...