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Perhaps the notion of a “normal” winter or any other season is nothing more than an artifice to protect us from the taunts of the weather gods. Normal, we discover, is not a constant. It changes with where you live and how long you have lived. My formative years in England brought February walks alongside [...]
THIS has been a year of success and failure for the worldwide urban agriculture movement that is desperately trying to atone for past abuses against the environment and to respond to growing concerns about the safety and sustainability of modern food production. Urban agriculture is not always well received. Sandra Thomas of the Vancouver Courier [...]
It is good news that some farmers recently have been able to buy back their acreage from developers as land prices have fallen and crop prices have risen. But this news is not nearly good enough. According to the American Farmland Trust, a public interest organization that monitors such things, our country is still losing [...]
Excessive use of chemical fertilizers has generated several environmental problems. To overcome these, bio fertilizers can be used as they are natural, beneficial, eco friendly and user friendly. They are considered important in growth improvement and establishment of forest tree seedlings as the media used to raise seedlings in nursery as well as planting sites [...]
Farmers in India’s potato belt are heading towards a financial crisis. They had loaded the vegetable in cold storages hoping to get export orders from the CIS countries. But with no business in sight, the glut has pushed down prices by . 2-3 per kg over the last week. Traders and farmers are holding huge [...]
Farmers cannot solve the crises in agriculture on their own. If one does an Internet search on how to solve the present crises in Indian agriculture, there are surprises in store — several hundred answers to effectively tackle the problems on hand. But the present crisis cannot be solved by the farmers alone. The initiative [...]
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