Jammu, September 6 (Scoop News) -Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Dr. Pawan Kotwal, today chaired an officers meeting to discuss the formulation of project on promotion of indigenous Basmati rice in Jammu division here today. Deliberating on vast potential of promotion of this variety in the state, which is a staple crop for a large chunk of […]
A Conversation About Organic Agriculture with Chuck Benbrook
In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Chuck Benbrook, Chief Scientist at the Organic Center. Name: Chuck Benbrook Affiliation: The Organic Center Location: Enterprise, Oregon Bio: Dr. Charles Benbrook is Chief Scientist at the Organic Center. He worked in Washington, D.C. on agricultural policy, science […]
“Greening” Fisheries Could Calm Troubled Waters
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Fishing is a critical means of providing food, livelihood, trade, and economic growth in many developing countries-as well as the United States. In many small island developing nations and coastal countries – such as Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Ghana – fish provide at least 50 percent of […]
Is Zimbabwe’s 50% Shareholding Quest in Diamond Mines a Boon or Bane?
The birth of an inclusive government in Zimbabwe, which saw President Robert Mugabe working with his long time political foe, Morgan Tsvangirai, who is now the Prime Minister, brought a lot of relief to the troubled but mineral-rich southern African country. After some few weeks into the government, Tsvangirai told the world that Harare was […]
Iran’s Green Movement Spreads Despite Crackdown
Government violence reduced number of street protests, but movement has become more difficult to control. By Behzad Yaghmaian (MR No 16, 13-Nov-09) The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, discovering […]
Successful trial tests of Saffron production in Udhampur in J&K
Udhampur(J&K),November 3 (Vijay Kumar) — Breaking perception and barriers of conducive soil and climatic conditions for saffron cultivation, Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, has in a major revolutionary agricultural break through successfully produced Saffron in the fields of higher reaches of Panchari, Dudu and Basantgarh. Emerging on the agricultural map of the country as […]
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