Agriculture
New step: Balasahib is experimenting on ladies’ finger and bittergourd. Photo: Special Arrangement
Farmer's Notebook: Government and scientists must encourage rural innovators
The farmer does not interact or share information with scientists
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Israel to set up CoEs in India
Indian farmers will have a chance to learn to optimise crop production from Israeli agriculture experts who will come down to the country to guide them.
Agritech Israel international agri...
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Unusual rise in night temperature brings down ‘imampasanth' yield
It has been attracting a large number of customers because of specific organic manure in the form of cow dung, the soil condition, and the environmental condition favouring the growth of the fruit.
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A groundnut variety that does not need much water
The pods are stronger and grow at lesser depth under the soil
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Management of soil pathogens in nursery
Soil is a complex habitat where a large number of different micro organisms including fungal pathogens interacting with plants. These soil pathogens always depend on host to survive and reproduce....
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May 20, 2012
Tough times for Punjab
There is a general impression about Punjab that it is the land of high productivity agriculture and well-built healthy people. However, a silent health and environmental crisis sweeping across the...
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Chennai,
May 10, 2012
CO-4 grass, melia dubia, can generate substantial power for Tamil Nadu
At a time when Tamil Nadu has been reeling under a severe power crisis for over three months, and the problem may have eased with the arrival of wind power over the past week, the existing demand-...
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Madurai,
May 8, 2012
Soil type and climate essential for organic farming
A workshop on organic farming was organised recently by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) at the Arul Anandar College here in which the findings of a three-year proj...
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COIMBATORE,
May 5, 2012
Paddy Breeding Station of TNAU bags award
The Paddy Breeding Station of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has been conferred the ‘Best Plant Breeding Centre for Rice Award' for its overall performance in development of rice varieties by...
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May 3, 2012
Managing blossom midge in jasmine
Jasmine is an important flower crop grown on a commercial scale. It is often seriously affected by a mosquito like insect called the blossom midge. Due to its attack, the base of the flo...
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MYSORE,
April 30, 2012
Preserving his inheritance
Fired by zeal for conservation of genetic diversity in crops, an organic farmer from the Mysore region has embarked on a project to establish what is reckoned to be India's first paddy museum.
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TIRUCHI,
April 27, 2012
Three banana researchers bag AIPUB fellow awards
Three scientists of the National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB), Tiruchi, have bagged the Association for Improvement in Production and Utilisation of Banana (AIPUB) fellow awards in recogniti...
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MANGALORE,
April 26, 2012
CAMPCO may come out with a solution for ‘kole roga'
President of the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (CAMPCO) Ltd. Konkodi Padmanabha said here on Wednesday that the cooperative will examine if it can market a chemica...
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April 25, 2012
Government needs to harness IT for innovative agriculture
There appears to be a general consensus that the country's agriculture sector can do better with some encouragement, motivation to youngsters who are driven with a passion, and a dream to do someth...
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ELURU,
April 22, 2012
Market glut continues to worry paddy growers
The harvesting operations in rabi began on a sour note for the paddy growers in West Godavari district. Even as 30-40 per cent of the crop has been harvested so for, the produce, piling up in the f...
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Girijan farmer shows the way
Huller – to remove outer skin from tamarind fruit
A movement to save Kangayam cattle gaining momentum
Mechanised cotton stripper makes work more easy
Utilising experts' advice leads to a substantial yield
Bangalore,
May 14, 2012
‘Bridge gap between potential and actual yield in red gram'
Swapan K. Datta, Deputy Director-General (Crop Science), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), on Sunday told agricultural scientists to utilise the Union government's funds for bridging...
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May 10, 2012
Reaping gold through cotton, and newsprint
“Not a single person from the two villages has committed suicide,” said a full page news story in the Times of India in 2008 on how Monsanto's Bt Cotton had miraculously transformed the lives of f...
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May 6, 2012
Grow and let grow
Three kilometres from Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, on the road to Bhopal, is situated the Titus Farm that proudly flaunts its fertile expanse of 12 acres and a unique farming method that can poten...
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CHAMRAJNAGAR,
May 3, 2012
Saviours of native seeds
Inside a dingy and dark room of a house at Odayarpalayam village in Karnataka's Chamrajnagar district, old earthen pots and worn-out plastic jars are lined up on ramshackle wooden shelves. Inside...
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May 3, 2012
Urban people may not know the real problems of farmers
It is an accepted fact that importing food cannot solve the problem of food shortage. “Modern technologies do offer vast prospects for crop improvement, but that alone need not make it popular amo...
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BANGALORE,
April 30, 2012
Area under Kari Kagga declines
A brackish water paddy variety, cultivation of which has been practised in the Aghanashini estuary for a long time now, faces the threat of extinction as farmers are complaining of shortage of see...
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Bhopal,
April 27, 2012
Wheat aplenty but gunny scarce in M.P.
Madhya Pradesh has had a bumper wheat harvest this rabi season, so much so the State does not have enough gunny sacks to pack the procured produce. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on W...
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April 25, 2012
Management of black tip disorder in mango
Black tip is a serious disorder that occurs in orchards located close to brick-kilns. Gases like carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and ethylene constituting the fumes from brick kiln are known to d...
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Ahmedabad,
April 23, 2012
Off season musk, water melon production a possibility: NAU
In a new trend of vertical farming in green houses, the Navsari Agriculture University (NAU) in Gujarat has successfully proven that cultivation of musk and water melon during monsoons happens to...
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ALAPPUZHA,
April 21, 2012
'Introduction of machines not for replacing farm workers'
The farm workers of Kuttanad were not coming forward to learn how to operate the machines used in the paddy fields. This was noticed by the Rice Research Station (RRS), Mankombu, when they started...
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Self-reliance and diversification may bring in profits
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Cattle wastes for composite fish culture
Maize dehusker, sheller reduces farm drudgery
Israel to set up CoEs in India
Farmer's Notebook: Government and scientists must encourage rural innovators
A groundnut variety that does not need much water
Benefits from poultry manure — no chicken feed
Greenhouse farming answer to rampage by global warming
CO-4 grass, melia dubia, can generate substantial power for Tamil Nadu
India looks at South America for farming technology updates
Melia dubia tree holds promise of good returns for ryots
Management of soil pathogens in nursery
Unusual rise in night temperature brings down ‘imampasanth' yield
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Management of soil pathogens in nursery
A groundnut variety that does not need much water
‘Bridge gap between potential and actual yield in red gram'
CO-4 grass, melia dubia, can generate substantial power for Tamil Nadu
Reaping gold through cotton, and newsprint
Soil type and climate essential for organic farming
