pesticide

This simple DIY neem insecticide made at home can help keep your garden free of bugs and insects in a healthy way.

Indira Ashok Shah, a Bengaluru terrace gardener, shares tips on how to grow and care for a coffee plant at home.

“I had almost eleven different varieties of brinjals last year,” she tells me. There’s also lady’s finger, corn, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, snake gourd, beans, different kinds of greens, tomato, five varieties of sweet potato, radish, and turmeric.

Currently residing in Cochin, Annie started uploading videos regularly on Youtube from 2015 bolstered by the encouraging comments of the viewers. Annie says that with each new video she makes, she feels the same kind of excitement and happiness she did when she started.

It’s been more than two decades and he continues to grow chemical-free paddy. But that’s not the only reason the retired teacher-turned-organic farmer is famous.

One farmer in Tamil Nadu earned approximately Rs 2 crore per year growing these humble, yellow fruits. Have a look!

One of the USPs of this would be that the produce sourced by Nafed would be considerably cheaper than what is available in the market.

Did you know that cotton accounts half of all pesticide use in India? And that inhaling this poisonous spray can lead to farmers losing their vision, hearing or speech, and even die?

In the study, the scientists have identified and isolated two different types of bacteria living in water bodies and soil respectively, which are highly efficient in biodegrading Chloropyrifos into simpler and non-toxic chemicals.

Rohan Parekh has prepared an educational kit to inform farmers about pesticide-related toxicities, and distributed masks to farmers for free.