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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Farming made unprofitable
Poor support prices and costly agri inputs make a bad equation for farmers, Savvy Soumya Misra finds out What Mahendra Singh Tikait knows as a farmers
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After nine years, farmer to be compensated for poor quality seeds
Chandigarh, October 12 As you sow, so shall you reap, goes the old saying. But it took nine years and a trying time running from pillar to post for a Mukstar-based agriculturist to finally be awarded with compensation for the
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Monsanto says US farms have access to credit
Monsanto, the world's largest seed producer, shrugged off the financial crisis yesterday by saying that credit markets were working well in the US agricultural sector, enabling farmers to continue to borrow normally to pay for seeds, fertilizer and herbicide.
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Training programme held on maize hybrid seed production
Importance of maize as a food as well as fuel crop stressed Tuticorin: Training camps were conducted recently to inculcate the techniques of maize hybrid seed production among farm women in the villages Kalkumi, A.Kumarapuram of Vilathikulam block and Sankaralingapuram, Vembur of Pudhur block in Tuticorin district by the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Killikulam.
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Indonesian claim over palm oil seeds
An Indonesian plantation company has filed the first patent applications for a hybrid variety of palm oil seeds and their production that it expects will increase the crop's yield by several hundred per cent.
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Efforts on to produce organic cotton seeds
COIMBATORE: The Southern India Mills Association
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Seed aid, agribusiness and the food crisis
The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like
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Saving seeds the desi way
After the Green Revolution and the large scale use of hybrid seeds, most traditional varieties of seeds and crops have disappeared. While it is true that hybrid seeds give more yields in the beginning, the use of chemical fertilizers results in reduced crops after a few years and leaves the farmers in crisis situations.
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Seeds crunch may limit grain output this rabi season
SEVERAL states are set to face an acute shortage of certified seeds for crops this rabi season compared to the National Seed Plan
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CYDA launches Hamara Beej campaign
Pune, September 24 At a time when the country is anticipating the first Genetically Modified (GM) food crop to be approved on a commercial basis, Centre for Youth Development and Activities (CYDA) has launched Hamara Beej in the city to spread awareness and mobilisation on GM foods, called I am no lab rat.