Is your food contaminated?
11-Jan-008 Commodity Online
Is your food contaminated? Soon, you will come to know. The Indian government is planning to set up a food safety agency to ensure strict standards.
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Research Centre Chief Bans Organic Farming Talk
1-Nov-2007 News Post India
Even as the central government is promoting organic farming in a big way, the head of a central research institute in the agriculture sector refused to allow a talk on the subject by an expert at a farmers' fair held at Nagpur in Maharashtra.
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Documentary on organic farming screened
2-Nov-2007 Iexpress India
On the second day of Documentary Film Festival organized by Punjab Agricultural University, a film on ‘Organic Farming’ produced by Nitin Bhonsle of Agri-India, Pune, was screened in the Wheat Auditorium of the University.
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Organic food helps to lengthen lives: Study
28-Oct-07 The Hindu
Those who scoff at organic foods, eat your words. If researchers are to be believed, organic food is more nutritious than ordinary produce and helps to lengthen our lives.
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A village experiments with organic farming to get better yield
12-Nov-2007 Iexpress India
Vilas Lokhande, an agriculture graduate and farmer in Jambroon village, 15 kms from Nanded city has devoted one acre of his land for growing soya bean only through traditional methods like using vermicompost for the soil or cow’s urine for pesticides; i.e. organic methods. What is more important is that he has decided not to use chemicals on this plot. On the remaining three acres, he has sowed other oil seeds including soya bean and is tending the crops the way he has been doing all this time using urea and Diammonium Phosphate.
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Indian organic foods may sport Duchys Originals tag
6-Nov-2007 The Economic Times
Organic foods are getting a royal push. Prince Charles of Wales has begun directly buying organic coffee, tea, spices, grains, pulses, milk, eggs and herbs from Indian farmers for export to the Middle East, Japan, the USA and the UK. His aim: convert 25,000 acres within India into organic food farms.
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1,500 ryots switch over to organic farming
13-Nov-2007 newindpress.com
A Vellore-based NGO Organic Farming Organisation(OFO), has achieved a rare feat of bringing around 1,500 small and marginal farmers under chemical-free farming practices.
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Krishi Mela's focus is organic
17-Nov-2007 The Times of India
The state government will seek central assistance of Rs 2,340 crore for the 11th Five Year Plan.
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Cashew apple a potential source for bio-fuel
19-Nov-2007 Business Line
Cashew apple, a product which is abundantly available in the country every year and much of it is wasted, could be an excellent source of bio-fuel that could be effectively used for the production of ethanol.
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Many organic products on display at Krishimela
18-Nov.2007 The Hindu
Organic products have come full circle. Organic, once the only known way to go, has been rediscovered and lauded worldwide for its commonsense techniques. And organic products are at an all-time premium now, chosen over their chemical-ridden counterparts.
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Darjeeling tea producers fascinated with growing organic tea
18-Nov-2007 The Economic Times
Darjeeling is known world over for its special varieties of tea. With the Western people becoming increasing health conscious, the tea producers here are increasingly diversifying into non-traditional segments.
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Organic agriculture alone can't fight hunger: FAO
10-Dec-2007 The Hindu
Organic farming may produce wholesome, nutritious food and generate income for developed and developing countries, but it cannot be solely relied upon to ensure global food security, the Food and Agriculture Organisation has said.
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Organic food inspires outlet at IIM
3-Dec-2007 The Times of India
Motivated by the multiple health benefits of organic food, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad IIM-A will now open an organic food outlet, within their campus, giving students a chance to earn the wealth of health as well.
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India organic farming area 312,000 hectares
20-Nov-2007 Reuters India
India's certified area under organic farming has reached 312,000 hectares, junior federal farm minister Kanti Lal Bhuria said late on Monday.
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Organic farmers in good company
3-Dec-2007 Iexpress India
For the first time in North India, a group of farmers from Punjab and Rajasthan has decided to form a company to market their produce directly to the end users.
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ORGANIC CULTIVATION SHOULD BE PROMOTED FOR BETTER NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT – RENUKA CHOWDHURY
29-Nov-2007 Press Information Bureau
Smt. Renuka Chowdhury, Minister for Women and Child Development has said that nutritionally rich coarse cereals and organic cultivation should be promoted to ensure better health of children and women. Addressing the farmers and participants at India Organic trade fair today, she said that the disruption of traditional modes of agriculture has resulted in change in nutritional patterns of the population which lead to ‘lifestyle diseases’, while organic diet stresses on traditional food and improves the immune system of the body. Organic cultivation is a holistic system of agriculture with sustainability as its watchword, she added.
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India: Leadership in Organic Textiles in Jan
3-Dec-2007 www.fibre2fashion.com
Organic Exchange cordially invites you to join us in India for our 2008 India Regional Supply Chain Meeting and Regional Farm Development Meeting. Aurangabad is a major production area for cotton and the gateway to the ancient and spectacular rock cut caves of Ajanta and Ellora.
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IIT Mumbai Sets Up aAQUA - An SMS Based Helpline For Farmers
12-Dec-2007 ContentSutra.com
The Telegraph has a story on an SMS based helpline for farmers set up by IIT Mumbai: aAQUA (almost all questions answered), is a scheme that enables farmers to enquire about rainfall patters, disease forecasts, efficient milking of buffalos, and importantly- providing market information; answers to questions like "the rates for cucumbers in the Kolapur market" and "a list of Indian exporters for stevia". The IIT is apparently in talks with a handset manufacturer for a phone with features just for farmers. Readers will remember that market information is also being provided by Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) in India - at Rs. 60 (around $1.5) per month. This goes a step beyond just market information, but one can't really comment on the efficacy of either without giving them a go
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Food for thought
16-Dec-2007 The Financial Express
Is it a marketing gimmick or is it a back-to-the-roots movement that’s seeing urban India increasingly showing a penchant for organic food? As more and more people make a beeline for the shelves stocking organic food products, whether in boutique grocery shops or the large-format department stores, health considerations seem to be paramount in the minds of consumers. Rashi Sharma, a housewife living in Delhi’s Golf Links regularly picks up food from the Fabindia store in nearby Khan Market. She says: “Given that organic food is grown without the use of any fertilisers or pesticides, it seems a natural, healthier option. I have also picked up herbal tea and organic spices from Delhi Haat, and keep a lookout for more options within the organic range.”
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Organic food becoming popular
15-Dec-2007 Gujarat Global
Organic food is now no more a privilege of people of developed countries or elite. Though it costs more, it is gaining popularity. The reason is growing health consciousness among people. As a result, not only the rich but also higher middle class in the metro cities of India are going for organic food. The most important reason for preference for organic food is concern for the health of children. In the developed countries over 66 percent people prefer organic food to non- organic food.
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Haryana govt to promote organic farming
14-Dec-2007 The Economic Times
The Haryana Government has decided to promote the organic farming and Rs 50 lakh would be provided as an assistance to the farmers of the state for certification of organic produce during the current fiscal.
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State Pulse: Karnataka: Organic farming is in
12-Dec-2007 Central Chronicle
Organic manure does not destroy earthworms the true friends of farmers. The presence of earth worms was vital as it increased the nitrogen, potassium and phosphrous contents in the soil. Thus, farmers could manage without using fertilizers.
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Future bright for organic vegetable farmers
12-Dec-2007 The Siasat Daily
The State government’s subsidy offer of Rs. 10,000 per hectare for promoting organic vegetable farming from next kharif will herald good times for vegetable growers in Adilabad who are already producing sufficient quantities for the district to be placed among top vegetable producers in Andhra Pradesh.
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TAI to present seminar on organic textiles
14-Dec-2007 www.fibre2fashion.com
The Textile Association India (TAI), Mumbai Unit is organizing an exclusive seminar titled Organic Textiles: Farming to Finishing on January 18, 2008. The event will be held at hotel Leela Kempinski, Sahar, Andheri (East) Mumbai.
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Nepali coffee to get its logo
16-Dec-2007 The Hindu
Nepal’s coffee is soon to have its own logo to represent the Himalayan flavour in the global market, The Himalayan Times reported on Saturday.
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Agri dept to buy all produce from IPM guided farming programme
15-Dec-2007 Kangla Online
Acknowledging that farmers of the state have no habit of storing seeds for sowing in the next season, agriculture office (chemistry), department of agriculture has decided to buy the products of the farmers cultivating rabi crops under the guidelines of the Integrated Pest Management, IMP programme.
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Retailers spur organic food sale
27-Dec-2007 The Times of India
Imagine starting your day with mangoes, apples and bananas infused with fertilizers and pesticides and ripened artificially. If you can't digest that, look out for the organic foods section in your neighbourhood supermarket. This niche section is a small, but significant part of the organized food retail market.
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Organic farming gains momentum in India
4-Jan-2008 Fresh Plaza
Organic agriculture movement is gaining in momentum in the country. The area under organic cultivation is likely to cross the 2 million hectare mark by 2012, according to National Centre for Organic Farming (NCOF), a body under the Union Ministry of Agriculture.
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A satisfying year for the FMCG sector
30-Dec-2007 The Hindu
Dec. 29With the country’s economy on an all-time high, and consumerism clearly the order of the day, the Rs 70,000-crore domestic FMCG industry has had a particularly satisfying year in 2007.
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Agriculture festival a big draw
26-Dec-2007 The Hindu
Declaring support to the farming community, the College of Agriculture, Vellayani of the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), has arranged an agricultural fair at the Government Boys’ Higher Secondary School, Neyyattinkara.
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Model farm for organic cotton by SICA
28-Dec-2008 www.fibre2fashion.com
The South India Cotton Association has developed a model farm here for organic cotton.
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State ginger to hit German market soon
28-Dec-2007 Sulekha.com News Hopper
Ginger cultivated in Karbi Anglong district of the State is all set to hit Germany soon. The first consignment comprising 20 MT will be exported to Germany by next month.
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