Agriculture

The Government has established a committee to look after plant breeders with respect to their innovations.

Just like few medicines are sold only with doctors’ prescription, farmers will now have to get a prescription from an agri-officer to buy poisonous pesticides.

Falling in line with the statewide Haritha Keralam Mission, the project divides plots of fallow lands between groups ready to embody the responsibility of cultivation.

ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning in collaboration with ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science-Bhopal, and FAO have developed the map with the intention of promoting knowledge-based agricultural practices in India.

According to him a formal degree in agriculture only gives knowledge about the positive effects of chemicals in farming, completely skipping the negatives.

Perhaps if we all were to buy things that are made locally, we could contribute to improving the economy in a year’s time.

“Saffron cultivation is our culture and tradition. It’s been there for centuries, and it needs to be protected both the government and by people.”

The method involves a ‘waste decomposer’, a solution concocted with effective microorganisms that propel in-situ composting of the crop residue.

Maharashtra farmer Chandrashekar Bhadsavle’s method, SRT (Saguna Rice Technique) farming avoids tilling completely and lets the residue of the earlier crop (in the rice crop’s case-- paddy stubble) disintegrate into the soil with the help of weedicides and microbial cultures.

What could make a direct and immediate impact on the farming family’s nutritional status is what’s grown and consumed.