Agriculture PolicyBriefingOctober 22, 2020'Central Legislation Over-riding APMC Acts will Create One Nation and a Million Markets' By vivian fernandes An official of the Karnataka government who has been in the driver’s seat of agricultural…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingOctober 14, 2020PM Modi Gives Farmers Freedom to Tap Markets but Not to Access Technology By vivian fernandes The centre has overridden the states and brought in a law to give farmers a choice of agricultural…Read more 0 51134 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingOctober 9, 2020IARI's Fungal Decomposer Makes Little Difference to In-field Paddy Straw and Stubble Management Practices By vivian fernandes The fungal solution does not degrade paddy straw and stubble in fields quickly enough for…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingSeptember 30, 2020Govt’s Stealthy and High-handed Attitude has Tarnished the Reformist Farm Bills By vivian fernandes The three farm bills on agri-trading, contract farming and stockholding which Parliament passed…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologySeptember 26, 2020Corteva Agriscience Pushes for Dense Planting of Maize Hybrids; Subsidises Mechanical Planters for Tribal Farmers By vivian fernandes One of the ways in which seed companies can drive their business is through densification of…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingSeptember 20, 2020Why are Punjab and Haryana Farmers Protesting? By vivian fernandes The reason why Punjab and Haryana farmers are protesting the central laws reforming agricultural…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyGM CropsSeptember 18, 2020Why GEAC's Nod to Beej Sheetal for Safety Trials on Bt Brinjal will End up Confounding the Company and Farmers By vivian fernandes The GEAC has allowed Beej (or Bejo) Sheetal to do BRL-II bio-safety trials on Bt brinjal. But Vivian…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingSeptember 12, 2020Eight Farmers from Eight States Endorse Bt Cotton and Call Upon the Govt to Make GM Technology Available in Other Crops By vivian fernandes Farmers endorsed Bt cotton technology and asked the government not to deny them access to improved…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingSeptember 4, 2020INI Farms Introduces Fruits With QR Codes That Can Disclose the Farms They were Grown in By vivian fernandes INI Farms, a farm-to-fork ag-tech fruit brand company has introduced origin traceability feature for…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyAugust 20, 2020Three Notifications for Banning Chemical Pesticides or Restricting their Use: Govt Must Make Haste Slowly By vivian fernandes Farmers and the pesticide industry are agitated over a series of draft notifications proposing bans…Read more 0 0 0 Share
