Latest News on Farming
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Oct 31, 2018
Startups to focus on coconut farming in first edition of Marico Innovation Foundation program
The winning startups will have access to coconut farms for product testing, adoption and scaling. -
Oct 23, 2018
A symbiotic partnership between plant and fungus could offer a farming fix in space
With plant hormone strigolactone, scientists grew a petunia-fungi network in simulated microgravity. -
Oct 18, 2018
GM cotton now a possible food source for humans after winning FDA approval
Cottonseed is otherwise unfit for people to consume since it has high levels of a toxic chemical. -
Oct 11, 2018
Farmers in Lalitpur, UP, among the worst hit due to rising fuel prices
The rising fuel prices become part of the vicious cycle in turn affecting rents, vegetable sales, yield output, and transport – for a small farmer who rents tractors for the fields and then trucks for the ferrying-to-markets, this is a crippling reality, and one that affects daily sustenance. -
Oct 08, 2018
India's landless poor: Amid rising rural poverty and lower access to land, empowering this group must be priority
The landless are, in fact, the “poorest of the poor” -- according to the Government of India’s own admission, for whom, among others, it launched an insurance policy, Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana, in 2007. -
Aug 29, 2018
Tripura CM Biplab Deb surprisingly gets his duck science right
Ducks nourish the waterbed with droppings & their paddling feet help cultivate soil & destroy weeds. -
Aug 23, 2018
Marathwada Diary: In Maharashtra's agri belt, uncertainty around income makes farmers unsuitable grooms
A farmer was once sought-after as a groom in Marathwada, but the growing uncertainty in agriculture has changed that. Many farm families now spend years, facing several rejections, looking for a bride for their son -
Aug 17, 2018
Minimum support price: Unkept promises on cost mitigation, bad formula to determine MSP compound farm woes
The cost of purchasing inputs like seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and machinery among others falls under the ‘A2’ cost category, while the cost of family labour is reflected in the ‘FL’ component. -
Aug 16, 2018
India bans 18 pesticides after reviewing 66 out of 104 used in country, leaves out monocrotophos, glyphosate
While there are 104 pesticides that are used in India but are banned in other countries, the Central government’s is reviewing only 66 pesticides of them. -
Aug 16, 2018
Minimum support price: Poll gimmicks cannot alleviate farm distress, government steps woefully inadequate
Over the past decade, the MSP seems to have become the prime political tool of the party in power to woo the farm vote.
