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We are what we eat. This saying had been long established by our traditional system of medicine, Ayurveda. Since modern science has also verified it through a series of experiments, we are much more willing to accept that whatever we consume from our environment, decides our physical well-being, social behaviour and thinking. However, despite being granted this wisdom, we have added poison to the food we eat in last 60 years. Starting from chemical fertilisers in the soil, spraying of pesticides and insecticides on plants, unnatural processing methods and now the efforts to introduce genetic modifications, we are not moving but running towards destruction.

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This changed five years ago when she adopted the so-called one-acre model, an innovative way of practising climate-resilient agriculture. Starting off with half an acre, she today manages around 3.5 acres of land and cultivates vegetables, wheat, pulses and turmeric with 100 per cent organic inputs.

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I can tell you that last year we had a bumper production in agriculture and this year the things are also looking up and expect we will repeat the performance. The spread of monsoon has been quite good and the enthusiasm among the farmers continue to be there. Having said that, I can tell the broad thrust of the government is basically to give a better price to the farmer.

Business Standard

After a big success during the earlier kharif season, government agencies have failed in pulses procurement in the ongoing rabi marketing season, missing their target by 86 per cent. Data compiled by the government-owned grain procurement agency, Food Corporation of India (FCI), showed that the only nominated agency, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed), procured only 19,779 tonnes of masur (red gram) as on July 3, against the target of 100,000 tonnes.

The Financial Express

The crop insurance coverage hasn’t spread as fast as many expected, partly because many state governments, which had been laggardly in implementing the pre-PMFBY schemes that most farmers found unaffordable, have remained reluctant to fund the new scheme as well.

The Hindu

Rice milling and processing may soon get a new dimension with the Mysuru-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a premier CSIR laboratory, in the process of establishing a state-of-the-art global rice processing facility on its premises here.

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Having grown into the largest Bt cotton seed firm in the country, and given multinationals such as Monsanto a run for its money, NSL will stay focussed with a series of new varietal and product launches in the crops identified. It has beefed up marketing infrastructure in newer regions of East and Central India.

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Dissent has crept in among agricultural scientists of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) over the possible release of genetically modified mustard. Background In May, NAAS President wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, endorsing DMH-11, a variety of mustard developed by Deepak Pental of Delhi University, a NAAS Fellow, that employs genes from soil bacterium. If approved, it would be the first transgenic edible crop to be grown in Indian fields. The plant had gone through adequate tests and was declared “safe” and passed regulatory muster. The GEAC, India’s apex regulator for genetically modified seeds, had cleared GM mustard for environmental release and use in farmer fields on May 11 this year. (BT Cotton)