GM Mustard row: Govt's claims of higher yields, low import bills untrue, says petitioner Aruna Rodrigues. While the proponents of GM mustard are claiming that the herbicide tolerant GM mustard will increase yield by 25-30 percent, will reduce India’s edible oil import bills, and that GM...
The ‘conquest of nature’ has got us to the precipice of doom as environmental degradation is the gravest threat to human life, second only to nuclear war April 22 will be a historic day for the national Capital and perhaps, the world, for it shall be...
A pandemic is upon us — COVID-19 — and India, more than the world, needs to tread very cautiously if we want to save 1.3 billion Indians from this threat. In the shadows of the coronavirus lies also another threat to India’s food security. Deviating from public...
The Covid-19 global pandemic has thrown our world into chaos. Already, the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation have warned of a “looming global food crisis” if the coronavirus is not managed properly. The prices of world’s two staples: wheat and rice have risen...
Our survival is dependant on agriculture and a good harvest depends on quality seeds delivered to farmers by the seed sector, both public and private. As we are in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, it is imperative that good seeds and other farm inputs...
If sowing is delayed in the Zaid season or farmers miss this window because of late delivery of seeds, or no seeds at all, we are possibly looking at a famine-like situation emerging and also extreme feed shortages coupled with food price inflations later this...
Indian food exports to the EU and the USA are rejected due to toxic residues found even in certified organic produce. This can only be corrected once the whole organic supply chain, seed to produce, is developed and there are no gaps in between The Union...
पूरी दुनिया में कोरोना वायरस की वजह से दहशत का माहौल है. आयात-निर्यात पर भी पाबंदी लगाई जा रही है. ऐसे में बड़ा संकट कृषि क्षेत्र पर पड़ने की आशंका है. अगर समय पर बीज नहीं मिला, तो किसानों की आर्थिक दशा और भी खराब...
A Ganga yatra and awareness drive may be the first steps to save the river but are far from the solution. Thousands of crores have already been spent to clean the Ganga. Yet, in Allahabad, the river water is undrinkable Ecological violence is contagious, much like...
सरकार 2020-21 तक देश में ऑर्गेनिक खेती के अंतर्गत आने वाली जमीन को चार लाख हेक्टेयर तक बढ़ाना चाहती है. हरित क्रांति बजट के तहत, परंपरागत कृषि विकास योजना को ऑर्गेनिक सर्टिफिकेशन के अंतर्गत आने वाली जमीन को बढ़ाने और अतिरिक्त 0.51 लाख हेक्टेयर इसके...