Farmer with a 5,000-book home library
It is common for farmers to have a rich collection of crop varieties and cattle breeds. But this young, innovative farmer, Siddalingeswhwara Veerappa Kalival, has a library in his farm that boasts of a...
View ArticleCane crop to drain out water in dist
KOLHAPUR: The water guzzling sugarcane cultivation in the district has the administration worried about water management in this low rainfall year. With 85% water from river basins in the district...
View ArticleRyots seek guidance to deal with pest attacks on crops
Farmers sought active guidance from Agriculture Department to deal with pest attack on coconut, turmeric and paddy crops, and requested intervention of district administration for recast of...
View ArticleFarmers exposed to benefits of poly greenhouse cultivation
To provide an alternative method of cultivation to farmers of this arid district, the horticulture department has decided to introduce, for the first time, the lucrative poly greenhouse method for the...
View ArticleMSP for Rabi Crops of 2015-16 season (Prime Minister’s Office of India)
(Source: Prime Minister’s Office of India) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for...
View ArticleAfter 5 years, Coimbatore district may soon get its own nursery
COIMBATORE: The horticulture department, along with the district collectorate, on Thursday confirmed that they were in the process of identifying some government land for the new horticulture nursery...
View ArticleCentrally-sponsored schemes to be reduced to 27 from 72
With the states getting a higher share in the central taxes and more untied funds, the government has decided to reduce the centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) to 27 from 72, a move likely to result in...
View ArticleSeedlings costlier in government nursery than in private ones, say farmers
COIMBATORE: The state horticulture department's nursery, which is supposed to sell seedlings at subsidized prices, sells them at triple the price charged by private nurseries, allege farmers. They say...
View ArticleCentre extends National Saffron Mission by 2 years
The Centre on Friday extended by two more years the Rs 371-crore National Saffron Mission launched in 2010-11 to rejuvenate saffron cultivation in Jammu and Kashmir. The decision was announced by Union...
View ArticleDraft irrigation plan for Adilabad submitted to govt.
Adilabad became the first district to submit the District Irrigation Profile to the State Government, after the Zilla Parishad general body approved the draft profile under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi...
View Article$14.25 million for Victorian irrigators to modernise infrastructure...
(Source: Department of Agriculture - Australian Government) Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Barnaby Joyce Victorian Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water, Lisa Neville 5...
View ArticleKeeping Australia's Food Bowl Full (Komatsu Australia Pty Ltd)
(Source: Komatsu Australia Pty Ltd) Murray Irrigation is the largest privately owned irrigation company in Australia. In a country that is reliant on farmers and their produce, but often starved of...
View ArticleHe revives farming in effluent-affected area
M.P. Marimuthu (75), who was one among the many hundreds of farmers on the banks of River Noyyal affected by the indiscriminate effluent discharge of Tirupur dyeing units, has defied all odds to revive...
View ArticleNearly 2,000 small dams unused as state sits on repair funds: RTI
MUMBAI: In a response to a Right to Information (RTI) query by activist Anil Galgali, the rural development and water conservation department revealed that almost 1,735 small dams in Beed, Jalna and...
View ArticleNAU is on a mission to turn agriculture farms organic in south Gujarat
Surat: The Navsari Agriculture University (NAU) has launched a mission to create awareness among the south Gujarat farmers to abandon conventional farming and adopt organic farming. NAU scientists said...
View ArticleIndo-Israel methods yield more vegetables
The Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Reddiyarchatram in Dindigul has achieved a milestone by increasing the yield manifold under open cultivation with plastic mulching and fertigation technology....
View ArticleFM to meet PSB heads tomorrow; NPAs, rate cut on agenda
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet heads of Public Sector Union (PSU) banks tomorrow to discuss various issues, including bad loans and interest rate reduction, in light of RBI lowering its policy...
View ArticleFM to meet PSB heads; NPAs, rate cut on agenda
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet heads of Public Sector Union (PSU) banks on Monday to discuss various issues, including bad loans and interest rate reduction, in light of RBI lowering its...
View ArticleFM to meet PSB heads today
The review meeting has NPAs, rate cut on agenda Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet heads of PSU banks on Monday to discuss various issues, including bad loans and interest rate reduction, in light...
View ArticleA model farm shows the way
The model horticulture farm at Sundaramudiyan, the district’s first horticulture farm established in 1986 under the Drought-Prone Area Development Programme which later became a self-financing farm,...
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