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Agriculture Industry
Agronomists strive to contain a brand new American pestedit
India’s acute farm crisis has just been worsened by an American pestilence called fall armyworm and farmers, biologists and agronomists are scrambling to contain the attack.
Sikkim’s 100% organic farming wins FAO’s Future Policy Gold Awardedit
The 2018 award announcement on Friday said: “Sikkim is the first organic state in the world. All of its farmland is certified organic. At the same time, Sikkim’s approach reaches beyond organic production and has proven truly transformational for the state and its citizens.”
All fiddle as crop stubble burns, farmers say solutions out of reachedit
“A matchbox costs just Rs 2, you know,” says Ram Pal Rana, as he collects and piles up dry straw on one side of his 3-acre paddy field at Uchana village in Haryana’s Karnal, around 130 km from Delhi. In the distance, a plume of white smoke spirals up as the crop stubble and straw on adjacent fields are set on fire.