-IANS West Bengal: In a bid to preserve indigenous rice varieties of India, the West Bengal government has proposed setting up a rice museum to showcase 'folk' varieties of rice, a scientist said Wednesday. Proposed to be set up at the Agricultural Training Centre at Fulia in the state's Nadia district, the unique repository will display over 300 samples. "In the institute's bio-diversity conservation farm, we are maintaining, growing, distributing and characterising over...
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India's shifting food bowls -Ravish Tiwari
-India Today Geography of rice and wheat has been transformed with Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh generating surpluses Almost 50 years ago, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri went on air to appeal to Indians to skip a meal a day. Foodgrain supplies had come under strain after the 1965 drought, and the patriotic ethos cautioned against over-consumption: what you ate left that much less for the rest. Today, it is...
More »Debal Deb: The barefoot conservator -Chitrangada Choudhury Aga
-Live Mint Debal Deb's indigenous rice bank is a brave effort to counter Indian agriculture's dash towards genetic erosion The Sunday morning in July marked the fifth straight day of rain in the fecund foothills of the Niyamgiri range in western Odisha's Rayagada district. The delayed showers heralded the year's busiest period for ecologist Debal Deb and his right-hand man Dulal as they prepared Basudha-a 2-acre farm unlike any other in India-for...
More »Red rice from Kerala gets mobile application boost
-The Financial Express Thiruvananthapuram: Following the Geographical Indication (GI) tag, Palakkadan Matta rice from North Kerala has started going the mobile app-based retailing way. Following the Geographical Indication (GI) tag, Palakkadan Matta rice from North Kerala has started going the mobile app-based retailing way. A farm specialising in Palakkadan Matta has launched a mobile application that facilitates retailing of the rice and rice products to supply anywhere in India....
More »Biodiversity too has to be safeguarded for future generations: activists -R Krishna Kumar
-The Hindu SAGE has raised demand to declare Mysore a GMO-Free City Mysore: Being a region where organic and natural farming is popular, activists called for declaring Mysore a GMO-Free City (Genetically Modified Organism-Free City) more than three years ago. The Southern Action on Genetic Engineering (SAGE) had raised the demand for a ‘GMO-Free Mysore' in keeping with Mysore's heritage character. The activists had argued that just as the built heritage of a city...
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