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| Agriculture Commission constituted | 20-NOV-09 |
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| With the suicide of farmers in various parts of the state rocking the state Assembly, the Orissa government today announced the appointment of an ‘Agriculture Commission’ headed by S M Patnaik, a retired administrator. The committee has Dr Sudhakar Panda (economist) and Niranjan Panda and D P Ray (vice-chancellor, OUAT) as members. |
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| UN chief to link food, global warming at FAO summit | 12-NOV-09 |
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| UN chief Ban Ki-moon will prod world leaders to step up the fight against global warming and hunger when he attends the UN Food and Agriculture Organization summit in Rome next week, a spokesperson said. |
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| Cotton exports to double on China, Pak demand | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Cotton exports from India, the second-biggest grower, will more than double this crop season as China and Pakistan seek more fiber to make up for a shortfall in supplies from the US, a government official said. |
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| CommGrade to expand; to certify marine, farm produce | 11-NOV-09 |
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| CommGrade, a leading testing and certification facility of National Collateral Management Services Limited (NCMSL), for agri and food products, is set for a major expansion and will shortly take up certification of marine food, fresh fruits and vegetables, a top company official said. |
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| Enough food buffer, also ready to import: Pranab | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that despite the shortfall in agriculture production, India has adequate buffer stocks of rice and wheat and the government will import what is needed to maintain demand and supply. |
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| IISR project to use mass media to motivate farmers | 31-OCT-09 |
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| The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) here is coming out with a major project to share agriculture information at the grassroot level, among stakeholders and policy planners through the mass media. |
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| India may import rice in 2010 | 29-OCT-09 |
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| India, the world’s second-largest rice grower, may import up to 3 million tonnes next year as the government secures supplies in case the nation faces another year of drought, triggering a price surge, a trader said today. |
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| Wheat carryover stock to rise 140% this year | 23-OCT-09 |
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| India’s wheat carryover stock may rise 140 per cent in the next financial year on favourable climate leading to a near bumper crop estimates during the ensuing rabi season. |
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| Farming with mobile phones | 22-OCT-09 |
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| For long, they have brought good news about friends and family, but now they will tell farmers when to sow their crops and what fertilisers to use. |
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| Farmers' resounding no to Bt brinjal | 22-OCT-09 |
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| It was the biggest line-up of farmers’ organisations and they came to Delhi from all parts of the country with one clear message: they did not want to grow the genetically modified (GM) version of one of the country’s most popular vegetable, the brinjal. The leaders looked mild enough but they said they would resort to “direct action ” if their voice was not heard and they said they represented 200 million farmers in the major brinjal-growing states. |
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