-The Times of India TABO (LAHAUL-SPITI): "At last they entered a world - a valley of leagues where the high hills were fashioned of the Mere rubble and refuse from off the knees of the mountains... Surely the Gods live here. Beaten down by the silence and the appalling sweep of dispersal of the cloud-shadows after rain. This place is no place for men." This was what Rudyard Kipling had said...
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Maharashtra turns traditional varieties into ‘Maharice’ -Nanda Kasabe
-The Financial Express It is the urban affluent and upper middle class which is gradually warming up to the concept of branded rice. Pune: The Maharashtra State Agriculture Marketing Board (MSAMB) is promoting rice varieties grown in the Vidarbha region under the 'Maharice' brand. In a pilot project, it recently sold around 450 quintals of such varieties and plans to sell around 1,000 tonne of the brand in one year, senior officials...
More »India's shocking rates of suicide are highest in areas with most debt-ridden farMers
-News-Medical.net A new study has found that India's shocking rates of suicide are highest in areas with the most debt-ridden farMers who are clinging to tiny smallholdings - less than one hectare - and trying to grow 'cash crops', such as cotton and coffee, that are highly susceptible to global price fluctuations. The research supports a range of previous case studies that point to a crisis in key areas of India's agriculture...
More »No movement in WTO's Bali package worries India-Nayanima Basu
-The Business Standard Agreement 'endorsed' by members and being legally vetted but will be part of the main Doha agenda only after a tenuous process After the euphoria over an "Indian victory" at the ninth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Bali, Indonesia, not much has moved on the agreed agenda. The 159 members of the WTO managed to adopt the 'Bali package' after last December's meeting, the global trade...
More »FarMers affected by Karur’s dye industry to exercise NOTA -M Suchitra
-Down to Earth Group has 1,750 farMers says pollution from industries has reduced them to poverty and political parties in power ignored their repeated pleas Ninety-five-year-old V Ammayappan is just back home from hospital after a kidney surgery. But this farMer from Melapalayam village in Tamil Nadu's Karur district is determined to cast his vote on April 24 when elections to Lok Sabha will be held in his state. He speaks with...
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