Nagpur- Saturday, May 19, 2012 When central Govt. and Maharashtra is working hard to disburse Rs.700 Crore relief aid released to specific districts of   western Maharashtra after server followup  of union minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar ,News Paper ‘SAKAL’ owned his family reported today that more than 300 farmers committed suicides in six districts of [...]

Much courage to DDS as its holds its grounds on the BMC-BHS issue, no matter how difficult this has become! It is important to re-iterate to the SBB, that even the Central BHS Guidelines issued by the NBA envisage a BHS sans a BMC being in place, see the language therein: ‘…BMCs and other relevant [...]

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article3425888.ece M. J. PRABU SHARE  ·   COMMENT   ·   PRINT   ·   T+ Better growth: Dhirajlal Thummar in his groundnut field. Photo: Special Arrangement The pods are stronger and grow at lesser depth under the soil It is natural for farmers to invariably go in either for a change in their cropping pattern, or in some cases, even stop farming when their crops [...]

  INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY IT’S DOWNRIGHT SCARY TO SEE THE LACK OF DIVERSITY IN THE HEALTHIEST FOODS WE EAT. Seeds are tricky things. On one hand, we have the whole Omnivore’s Dilemma argument, that industrialized and genetically engineered food is probably bad. And on the other, we have strains of vegetables that can grow four times [...]

Maharashtra state government orders German seed company to compensate farmers as cotton hybrids fail to deliver http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/15/india-gm-cotton-bayer?newsfeed=true Julien Bouissou Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 15 May 2012 13.59 BST White revolution … but the promise of GM cotton in India has not been realised. Photograph: Sam Panthaky /AFP Ten years after it was introduced to India, genetically modified cotton is not [...]

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3401466.ece?homepage=true A facsimile of The Times of India’s August 28, 2011 page with the ‘marketing feature’ on Bt Cotton. The same full page appeared twice in three years, the first time as news, the second time as an advertisement “Not a single person from the two villages has committed suicide.” Three and a half years [...]

* కిందటేడాది వెయ్యికిపైగా రైతులు మరణిస్తే.. 141 అంటున్న సర్కారు * జీవనోపాధి లేక, సర్కారు పరిహారం అందక రైతు కుటుంబాల విలవిల * అమలుకు నోచుకోని జీవో 421.. రైతు ఆత్మహత్య చేసుకున్న కుటుంబానికి రెండ్రోజుల్లోనే పరిహారం అందజేయాలంటూ వైఎస్ జారీ చేసిన జీవో ఇది * అత్యంత మానవీయ కోణంలో తెచ్చిన ఈ జీవోకు గ్రహణం ఆకుల రామకృష్ణ.. మహబూబ్‌నగర్ జిల్లా జడ్చర్ల మండలం నెక్కొండకు చెందిన ఈయన ఓ కౌలురైతు. 18 ఎకరాలు కౌలుకు తీసుకుని పత్తి వేశాడు. [...]

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/monsanto-maize-seeds-hit-roadblock-in-guj/472683/ Monsanto maize seeds hit roadblock in Guj BS Reporter / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad Apr 27, 2012, 00:24 IST The Gujarat Government has decided to stop procuring double-cross hybrid maize seed made by seed major Monsanto, which were distributed among the farmers in the tribal areas of the state under the tribal a development scheme. The [...]

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/247091/bt-cotton-thrives-cost-child.html Jyotsna Singh, New Delhi, May 4 2012, DHNS: The problems and issues related to Bt cotton production in India have been well-documented. But, what is less known is the relationship between Bt cotton seed farming and child labour. A study  ‘Dirty Cotton’ by a team of researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru University and research agency [...]

Author(s): Dinsa Sachan Issue: May 15, 2012 Empirical estimates of nitrous oxide levels in environment made The air samples were taken from atmospheric monitoring station in Tasmania (Courtesy: Dr David Etheridge)NITROUS oxide is a potent greenhouse gas—it is 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in causing global warming. Though it reaches the environment through different sources [...]