Tag: Farming

Veena ParmarWhile addressing conclave on Natural Farming on 22 December 2021 at Anand, Gujarat, PM Modi stated that time has come to correct the past mistakes before they become gangrene adding that there is a dire need to take away agriculture from chemical and physical laboratories and connect it ...

Women sing aloud as a priest recites mantras. Hindi, Pahari and Sanskrit mix well as traditional songs gell with sacred hymns. Together they produce a musical effect lilting and uplifting. Wafting up is a pleasant smell of incense. There is divinity in the air — and in the field as ...

Qasim Shah, a farmer in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, has no regrets about giving up crop farming.“Trout farming is more lucrative than traditional crops,” said Shah, who is also the vice president of the Private Fish Farms Association in the Ghizer district. “Crops and fruit have become too ...

Remember, China’s reforms started with agriculture, and India, till date, has been avoiding reforming its agriculture.By Ashok Gulati & Ritika JunejaAs Indians, we feel proud of our Independence on every day of the year. After centuries of subjugation, when India finally breathed freedom on August 15, 1947, our leaders ...

On a cold morning in the early winter of 2019, farmer Shekhar Chauhan reached his small sugarcane farm to start a regular workday, only to find it flooded. The boundary of a nearby drain had broken and water spilt into the farms in the Muzaffarnagar district of the northern ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 75th edition of his monthly radio address – “Mann Ki Baat” today. In the January edition of the broadcast, Prime Minister Modi had appealed the nation to write about freedom fighters and stories of their struggle to mark the country’s 75th Independence Day this ...

Both Houses of Parliament will be continuing the debate on Motion of Thanks to President's address for the third day on Friday.The debate largely focused on farmers' protest.Here are the latest updates:2.25 pmDancer Sonal Mansingh (nominated MP) says National Education Policy has blended culture with knowledge. She claims the ...

India’s plan to collectivise and support millions of small and marginal farmers into profitable business groups may fail without significant reforms in the existing funding and support ecosystem for farm collectives, experts say. In five years to 2023-’24, the government plans to set up and support 10,000 new farmer ...

Narendra Modi Photographer: Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images India is battling one of the world’s highest coronavirus caseloads, its worst-ever economic slump, shuttered factories, farmer protests and the deadliest border fighting with China in decades.Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to remain as ...

Porridge is the best way to really start the day, usually after the shepherding is done. Sometimes I’ll have bacon and eggs, but I’m on a diet at the moment, after being too sedentary, writing a book. Often I have one of my wife Helen’s amazing soups at between ...