For promotion and implementation of organic farming, the Punjab government bagged the ‘Jaivik India Award’.
Buoyed by response of the foreign delegates and the participating nations coupled with the enthusiasm shown by the more than 20000 farmers who attended the two-day Global Agriculture and Food Summit at the Khelgaon here Chief Minister Mr Raghubar Das said that Jharkhand will be first state in the country where the income of the farmers will increase four times by the year 2022.
Punjab Agricultural Management & Extension Training Institute (PAMETI) in association with School of Organic Farming, PAU organized a six days training programme on “Organic Farming and Production of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants” under Skill Training for Rural Youth (STRY) from 08-13 October, 2018 at its campus.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research launched Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav programme to promote direct interface of scientists with the farmers to accelerate the transfer of information from lab to land.
The Maharashtra government has decided to set up a mission for promoting organic agriculture in the State.
Going organic seems to be yielding rich dividends for the Erode Uyir Iyyarkai Vivasaigal Sangam (Erode Uyir Natural Farmers’ Society).
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kheri (Sangrur) organized a one day seminar on "Organic Farming: Biological control of insect-pests and diseases in kharif crops" on 12.06.2018 under the guidance of Dr. Mandeep Singh, Associate Director (Trg.), KVK, Kheri.
The US is organic farming's largest market, and India has the highest number of organic farmers. For the farmer, it presents a low-external-input, low-debt approach, with farm-level resilience improved through diversity-based cropping.
Lending a fillip to organic farming in the state, the Jharkhand government has decided to identify and develop 3,000 clusters across Jharkhand for promotion of organic farming.
Director professor at the department of medicine at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Dr Ulhas Jajoo said, excessive use of pesticides has led to increase in vascular diseases and other health hazards and although science has not been able to prove it, researchers said farmers have observed this phenomenon.
In an attempt to encourage organic cultivation, to set up dedicated platforms to manage organic produce transactions in the yards itself, state-level agriculture market yard chairpersons committee resolved.
Punjab Agricultural Management & Extension Training Institute (PAMETI) organized two days training programme on “Organic farming for soil & water conservation” from 25-26 March, 2018
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that, Andaman and Nicobar Islands has huge potential to scale up organic farming.
According to survey, just 19 per cent farmers are practicing organic farming in Rajasthan even as 91 per cent were aware of the ill-effects of chemical farming.
With the motive that farmers of the state would adopt organic farming, the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Acharya Devvrat, launched the Zero Budget Natural Farming project.
The government is planning an organic revolution for the country, and by identifying areas holding high potential for the same, the ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP) has come to its aid.
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh said India is one of the oldest organic agricultural nations of the world and a large part of the country still practices traditional organic farming.
Agriculture Secretary S K Pattanayak said that, Sikkim, which is a fully organic state, should mentor other states in marketing of organic produce.
To transform Assam into an eco-friendly organic State, a seminar-cum-workshop on organic farming organized by the Society for Environment, Health, Awareness of Nutrition and Toxicity (SEHAT), Voice of Environment (VOE) and North East Wetland (NEW) jointly at the Panchayat Office, Neli, in Morigaon recently.
To create awareness among the farmers about organic farming and organic certification process, the Agriculture Department has proposed to raise 100% organic farm clusters in three villages of Tamil Nadu.
The northeast Himalayan state of Sikkim is trying its luck with organic farming, a pull for young, green-minded entrepreneurs who could help get the produce to market. Sikkim was declared 100 percent organic by the Indian government last year and also across the country, organic farming is growing rapidly.
Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressed the National Symposium on Organic Farming for Farmers’ Prosperity, organized by CRIDA and NIRD, Hyderabad.
Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, declared Sikkim as first organic state of India. He appreciated Sikkim for its transformation into an eco-friendly farming state.
The Andhra Pradesh government decided to train 1.5 lakh farmers in organic farming in the coming next three years, a senior agriculture department official said.
Now group of students are out on a mission to further take you through the nuances of organic farming and to enlighten you on the benefits of organic manures and pesticides. And they are also with bottles and packets of decoctions and PGPR-enriched or Tricoderma-enriched manures, the organic solutions and manures prepared by themselves, which you could buy at a reasonable price.
A farmer Mahesh Ratanpara, who is forty-year-old and a resident of Ajab village, 45km from Junagadh town. He has decided to switch to organic farming. So for that, this year he has not used a single drop of chemical-based pesticide in his 22-bigha farm. At least 102 other farmers from the village with population of over 9,000, have decided to switch to organic farming.
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