-Down to Earth System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite incentives SIMPLE TECHNIQUES and manag-ement practices tend to be viewed with suspicion. In the age of input-intensive agriculture which calls for an array of machinery and a host of scientific props, a crop management system whose core basically is protecting the plant's roots to provide better...
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Contractors cut off hands of Labourers, leave SC livid -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: "Is there andhergardi (lawlessness) in this country," an angry Supreme Court asked after being told by the Naveen Patnaik government that unlicensed Labour contractors chopped off the palms of two migrant Labourers' after the tribal men they had herded for contract Labour in brick kilns managed to flee. Counsel Jayshree Satpute and R S Jena narrated the unending exploitation of tribal men in six districts of...
More »Farmer Uses Bike to Plough Land
-The New Indian Express BELGAUM: Laxman Maruti Muchandi, a young farmer from Yallur near Belgaum, has found a novel way to cultivate his 4.5-acre field without using oxen or a tractor. Muchandi has used a motorcycle to plough the field for sowing paddy. Muchandi said it was very difficult to get farm Labourers. Some demanded Rs. 11,000 to plough his field, after which he decided to use his motorcycle. He used one-and-a-half litres...
More »Community farming boon for Odisha tribal women -Hemanta Kumar Pradhan
-The Pioneer Bhubaneswar: Community farming has shown a way of livelihood for women in the State in general and tribal districts in particular. The model in agriculture sector has made the women folk more confident and self-reliant than ever before. Community farming is also called as group farming where farmers cultivate crops in groups. In this form of farming, a group of people give a share for the expenditure and work unitedly....
More »Mean and petty Labour reforms -Colin Gonsalves
-The Hindu Even decades after independence, the introduction of a ‘secret ballot' for Labourers to recognise trade unions remains elusive The National Democratic Alliance government, on June 5 and June 17, notified the proposed amendments to the Factories Act, 1948 and the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Given that the process of amendments began in 2008 and went through a number of expert committees, one would have expected the amendments to be carefully...
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