Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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Pakistan, China working to develop high yield rice seeds: Kaira
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and China are working on development of a new rice seed variety having more per acre yield and resistance against diseases. 'Production achieved from this new rice seed would be exported to Iran and in return Pakistan would get oil which would be provided to the masses on subsidised rates,' he said.
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Fish seed project fails to enthuse farmers
Dharamsala: The proposal of the Department of Fisheries to set up Rs 5-crore seed farm has evoked a lukewarm response from fish farmers of the state. The farmers, when contacted by The Tribune, expressed apprehensions about the success of the project. They alleged that fish seed farm might end up as another white elephant of the government.
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Research farm land turns useless after Sonia rally
The research farm in Islampur. Picture by Mehedi Hedaytullah Raiganj, June 23: An agriculture department
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4 lakh quintals of paddy seed for farmers during kharif
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa State Seeds Corporation (OSSC) will provide four lakh quintals of paddy seed during the kharif.
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As dry spell gets longer, so do worry lines
Centre Plans To Shower Farmers Across India With Drought-Resistant Seeds Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI
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Steps are taken to distribute seeds
Farmers queueing up in front of the Agriculture Department to procure seeds is a common sight. Appropriate steps have been undertaken to distribute sowing seeds for the cultivation of groundnuts and paddy to the farmers, informed Agriculture Assistant Director Chandrashekaran.
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Poor farmers to guard Earth's crop riches
The Quechua of Peru are among the first recipients of a new global fund for becoming custodians of the world's threatened crops.
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An old seed gives birth to a new one
Awudu Ngutte works as a project co-ordinator for INAPA, a small organisation based in Buea, Cameroon. He has been receiving LEISA Magazine since 2004, sharing it with his colleagues and other organisations. He was particularly interested in issue 23.2,
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For these women money does grow on (neem) trees
Once, the women of Muddana Guddi, a village in Raichur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, suffered from drought and poverty. With no alternatives except cursing their own troubles, they used to migrate to neighbouring states for work. Now, they are earning their own livelihoods by running a business worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.
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No more GM in Kolhapur fields
University bans field trials THE Maharashtra agriculture university announced it would no longer allow field trials of GM food crops in its field at Kolhapur. The move came in the wake of a protest in March by hundreds of farmers and citizens against an open-air field test of GM corn seeds, produced by seed major Monsanto. The protest led to the constitution of a committee, which resulted