-The New Minute We can wash and clean our vegetables plenty of times but that's not the right solution. The solution lies in our regulatory system. Pesticides are everywhere - whether it is their use in our farms or their prevalence in our plates. We have somehow convinced ourselves or have been convinced that if we set certain regulatory standards we can conveniently forget about the negative impacts of Pesticides and continue...
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Grim tales of agrarian distress -R Avadhani
-The Hindu Sangareddy (Telengana): As many as 44 farmers have committed suicides in the last few months in Medak district after taking loans from private financiers Rachaboyina Balagoud was 55 years and belonged to Mylaram village in Wargal mandal. He had about one-and-a-half acres of land. He took loans to the tune of Rs. 12 lakh from various sources, including banks, and a private financer. He had sunk as many as 12...
More »CCFI claims Greenpeace bent on derailing Indian agriculture -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI) furthered its stand against foreign funded NGOs in India at an event here on Wednesday where controversial ecologist and former Greenpeace member Dr. Patrick Moore shared the stage with officials from the body. CCFI had decided to file a Rs. 50 crore defamation suit against Greenpeace's "baseless" report on Pesticide residues in tea earlier this month. When asked by...
More »Wagh Bakri supports Greenpeace for eliminating Pesticides from tea cultivation
-The Hindu Business Line Ahmedabad: As nearly 40,000 citizens signed a petition asking tea companies to clean up chai, The Wagh Bakri Group, India's third largest tea packager, on Thursday said it would support Greenpeace's attempts to eliminate Pesticides from tea cultivation in the country. Wagh Bakri has engaged with Greenpeace India whose report "Trouble Brewing" and highlighted Pesticide residue in tea samples recently. Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Girnar Tea have already announced...
More »Big push to organic farming -R Ramabhadran Pillai
-The Hindu Kochi (Kerala): The State Horticulture Mission (SHM) is planning to implement organic farming and certification in 2,000 hectares in the State. The programme is to be implemented initially in the three districts of Idukki, Wayanad and Kasaragod during 2014-15, under the guidance of the National Horticulture Mission (NHM). Under the programme, financial assistance will be provided over a period of three years for groups of farmers covering an area of...
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