-The Indian Express New Delhi: Vegetables are the noble folk of food world, loved equally by doctors and grandmothers. Vegetarians live off them and meat-eaters are told to live off them. But in Delhi, under every crunchy leaf of radish or the shiny brinjal hide dangerous amounts of pesticides that can slowly kill, shows a new study by JNU. Pritha Chatterjee and Aniruddha Ghosal report how growers, consumers and the authorities may...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 2716
Farmers seek representation in NITI Aayog -R Vimal Kumar
-The Hindu Tirupur (Tamil Nadu): "Farming population has shrunk in the country by about 25 per cent since Independence and continues to dwindle at a steady pace. Farmers' suicides are still a concern. "To arrest the trend and save the farm sector, the Farming community should be given adequate representation in the newly constituted NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog that replaced the Planning Commission". This is one of the...
More »Rice waste makes ‘green wood’ to build low-cost homes in India -Carla Kweifio-Okai
-The Guardian An Indian student with a Farming background finds a green alternative to burning tons of rice husks and straw by using the waste as housebuilding material When Bisman Deu saw her family burning mounds of rice waste at their farm in southern India, she was convinced the material could be put to better use. The Delhi student, 16, came up with the idea of recycling the unwanted rice husks and...
More »Jharkhand’s Asur tribe losing traditional skills in modern times -Abhishek Saha
-The Hindustan Times Polpol Path (Jharkhand): Laldeo Asur passes his days basking in the mellow winter sun, his 70-year-old body now too frail for the rigours of village life. But it is not his advancing age he is too concerned about but the advance of modernity on his tribe, the Asurs. Laldeo knows that after him there will be none to practice a traditional technology for iron smelting, a craft perfected by his...
More »Seeds distributed to public to encourage organic Farming
-The Hindu Nammalvar remembered on his first death anniversary Salem (Tamil Nadu): To encourage people undertake organic Farming and to produce vegetables on their own, three types of vegetable seeds and two types of spinach seeds were distributed free of cost to the public here on Tuesday. As part of observing the first death anniversary of organic Farming scientist G. Nammalvar, ‘Seed Day' was celebrated here. Members of Green City Association and Easan...
More »
