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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

Recent Developments,
Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports

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A new underground irrigation technology

Chahtech SA is a company that was created in 2009 and is involved in manufacturing innovative products for sustainable agriculture and environment, and has come out with its first product ‘The Buried Diffuser’ which gives a yield three times higher than normal drip irrigation. Read more here.

August 2, 2012

India: Inflation haunts agriculture

Poor rains (some 30 per cent below required amount) have led to farmers suffering, with a produce going to waste all across states in India. Consequently, the prices of agricultural commodities have jumped sharply in the past month. Read more here.

August 2, 2012

Agriculture in India – Low or no reward?

Farming in India may be more ‘open’ to all elements of climate than any other sector, but does not have access to open market. Most of the States in India prohibit sale of farm produce outside the government-mandated marketplace forcing underpriced sales and involvement of corrupt middlemen. Read more here.

August 2, 2012

The India-Israel mission

Political leader of BJP, a leading political party in India launched a programme called Vision Israel, Mission Vidarbha, for the farmers of Vidarbha, Maharashtra, where farmers continue to commit suicide. Israel being geographically small still exports a considerable amount of produce, and its agricultural innovations have led it to become […]

August 2, 2012

Africa: Five ways to get rid of pests without using fertilizers

Pests can be harmful to the crops that small holders and other farmers grow, and yet using fertilizers is risky due to the quality of the same available in developing countries, ultimately affecting the health of citizens. Nourishing the Planet has come out with five crop management methods that control pests […]

August 2, 2012

Bangladesh: Adaptation priorities in agriculture

Sixty per cent of Bangladeshi population is associated with agriculture. They are mostly extremely poor and yet, most vulnerable to changes in agricultural conditions and climatic conditions (it has been called ‘extreme’ risk oriented in the 30 countries surveyed by a British firm). It is thus that agro-technology intervention to […]

August 2, 2012

Africa: Agriculture needs CAADP’s help

According to UN Secretary –General and Executive of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Abdoulie Janneh, the commitment of development partners for enhance agricultural practices in Africa has not had significant outcome yet. Janneh said that to develop, agriculture in Africa would need to be more market-oriented, integrated, and competitive, […]

August 2, 2012

India: Where are all the farmhands?

Indian agriculture has a new problem added to its official list – there is a dire shortage of farm hands. A farmer who earlier used to employ some 20 farm hands has now got to do with just one permanent farm hand. In fact the condition is so bad that […]

August 2, 2012

BT Cotton better for Indian farmers

Farmers cultivating Bt cotton on smaller fields in southern and central parts of India have witnessed a rise in their yields, and accordingly an increase in their profits as well as standard of living compared to those who did not adopt the usage of BT cotton seeds. The study is […]