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Agriculture Industry
Basic steps of Organic Farming, Organic Farming typesedit
Organic farming refers to agricultural systems reliant on green manure, compost, biological pest control and crop rotation, livestock production and poultry farming. This is mainly dependent on developing ecological biodiversity in the plantation farm to interrupt the habitation of pests and diseases and the development of soil fertility.
Climate change to affect water availability, alter food production: UN reportedit
Global food production patterns would be fundamentally altered by climate change, causing food insecurity because of small shifts in seasonality and water availability, according to the World Water Development Report released by the United Nations on March 22, 2020.
An increase in food prices would increase rural poverty, the report said.
The impact of regional precipitation patterns on four major crops – wheat, soybean, rice and maize – was already projected to emerge by 2040, according to an article published by journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in May, 2019.
Will the Pesticide Management Bill address farmers’ concerns?edit
The Pesticide Management Bill, 2020, to be tabled in Parliament soon, should ban toxic pesticides and lay down stringent mechanism for registration?
“Water demand is expected to increase over the next few decades… natural supplies unlikely to meet demand”edit
When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote these lines in his epic Rime of Ancient mariner in 1798, little did he know his words might turn out to be so prophetic in the 21st century. Over 69 crore Indians lack access to drinking water. Groundwater is getting deeper, rivers and ponds and lakes are drying, and en masses migration of populations are making water scarcer and rarer. On World Water Day (22nd March) it is imperative to bring the focus back to the management of water resources or its lack thereof. The very survival of our planet is at risk unless we find ways to resolve water management.
Coronavirus threat: Gujarat farmers worried as APMCs shut during rabi harvest seasonedit
Amid peak season of farmers harvesting wheat at the end of the rabi season, the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC), Sanand on Saturday decided to close down and suspend all procurement “indefinitely”. Officials said farmers will be informed of the closure on Sunday. The shutdown is to keep farmers, traders and labourers away from the yards to check the spread of coronavirus, officials said.