2010 draft A. Mission Objectives • To devise strategic plans at the agro-climatic zone level so that action plans are contextualised to regional scales in the areas of research and development (R&D), technology and practices, infrastructure and capacity building • To enhance agricultural productivity through customised interventions such as use of bio-technology to develop improved [...]

FAO has officially recognized the Traditional Agricultural System of Koraput  as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) site. This was officially declared on 3rd January 2012 at the Indian Science Congress organized by KIIT University in Bhubaneswar. This is an important recognition of our Tribal System of Agriculture and its conservation will only strengthen our fight [...]

Factsheet-Pesticides management bill, 2008

Bhupat M Desai, Errol D’Souza, John W Mellor, Vijay Paul Sharma, Prabhakar Tamboli Economic and Political Weekly, December 31, 2011 For 40 years, India’s agricultural growth rate has averaged less than one-third of the government’s modest target of 4%. The sector’s performance has been about the same before and after the economic reforms in the early [...]

Policy Brief on Future Outlook and Options for Target Crops: The Sorghum and Pearl millet economy of India download More  than  60  percent  of  the  area  in  India  is  cultivated  under  arid  and  semiarid conditions  which  provide  around  40  percent  of  the  food  production.  Farmers  here  are exposed  to  harsh  agro  climatic  conditions,  as  they  have  to  cultivate  shallow  [...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15733185 23 November 2011 Last updated at 00:29 GMT  Hariya lives in one of the poorest parts of India The Indian government recently said that anyone spending 26 rupees (51 US cents) or more a day in rural areas could not be called poor. BBC Hindi’s Rajesh Joshi travelled to the central Bundelkhand region to discover the [...]

Respected Member of Parliament, Sub: OPPOSE THE INTRODUCTION OF BRAI BILL, SLATED FOR BUSINESS ON 22ND NOV. 2011 Namaste. The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill is slated for Business on 22nd November 2011 in the Lok Sabha. This Bill and its introduction has already been opposed by several MPs cutting across party lines. [...]

  22 नवंबर 2011 को संसद में पेश हो रहे बी.आर.ए.आई. बिल का विरोध करें चूँकि यह ‘बायोटेक्नोलॉजी रेग्युलेटरी अथारिटी ऑफ इंडिया बिल’ गलत उद्देश्य के लिए बनाया गया गलत बिल है मान्यवर, पिछले साल पहली जीएम खाद्द्य फसल को लेकर पूरे देश में जोरदार बहस छिड़ी। बीटी बैंगन के रूप में पहली जीएम (जेनटिक मोडिफाइड) खाद्य फसल [...]

friends there are five bills which are pending before parliament and may come up for approval in this session starting from22nd nov. We request you to kindly share the following concerns and suggestions on these bills with your MPs and request them to bring them up while during discussion.  This would of great help. We [...]

Hon’ble Chief Minister Sri N.Kiran Kumar Reddy speech at NDC meet at Delhi on 22-10-11. http://cm.ap.gov.in/22oct11speech.asp The Chief Minister Sri N Kiran Kumar Reddy today declared that Andhra Pradesh is confident of achieving a growth rate of 10% during the 12th Plan period. He said the corresponding sectoral growth targets would be 6% for agriculture, [...]