-PTI Delhi government will track the trucks carrying foodgrains with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices to curb the menace of diversion of rations meant for lakhs of families which are below the poverty line. Also, SMS will be sent to the ration card holders attached to that fair price shop (FPS) about the arrival of ration commodities. The system is likely to be functional in...
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‘Kaipad’ rice included in GI registry -Mohamed Nazeer
-The Hindu Kannur (Kerala): The ‘kaipad' rice cultivated in the brackish water tracts of northern parts of the State has been included in the Geographical Indications (GI) registry in the country which is part of the Intellectual Property regime. The notification of inclusion of the ‘kaipad' rice varieties in the GI registry followed an application submitted by the Malabar Kaipad Farmers' Society (MKFS) of Ezhome here. The society has been formed for...
More »The Idyll-Maker Who Built Timbaktu -Swati Sharma
-The New Indian Express Back in 1989, the area near Chennakothapalli village of Anantapur (the second driest area in India) in Andhra Pradesh was a wasteland. Till C K Ganguly (Bablu) and Mary Vattamattam chanced upon it in 1991 and saw its immense potential to blossom into a green paradise. The couple, along with friend John D'Souza, then bought 32 acres of this barren land. Inspired by Japanese author Masanobu Fufuoka's seminal...
More »With paddy season in, farmers out in search of migrant labour -Sachin Sharma
-The Hindustan Times Bhatinda: With the paddy transplantation season set to start from June 10 across the state officially, farmers have started search for the labour and are making rounds of railway stations and bargaining hard with the migrant workers to fix the deal. As the farmers had faced acute shortage of workforce in the last paddy season in the state, they are making sure that they do not have to...
More »Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan & Rajeev Deshpande
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall. "The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared," President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday. The official word...
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