Canada Whenever India becomes a global leader in any agricultural commodity, malicious campaigns funded by foreign sources begin. When India’s cotton production began to accelerate in early 2000, Greenpeace (international activist NGO) published a study Arrested...
Uncategorized “Our biggest weakness is not realizing / utilizing the strength of Indian agriculture. India’s agri-input industry (seeds, fertilizers and pesticides) have played a significant role in making India a global leader in the field of agriculture”...
Alcohol – A Cancer Causing Substance Alcohol is one of the most well established causes of cancer - Sara Williams, Cancer Research, UK What are the cancers causing substances? If this question were put before educated elite community, including doctors, their response...
Pepper. Brazil beats India The name pepper comes from Sanskrit pippali, meaning berry. Vasco de Gama discovered sea-spice route to India in 1498 mainly to procure pepper. Vietnam began cultivation of pepper only in 1990s , but in 2003 overtook India as the...
Is there cancer catastrophe in India? We have all read, rather repeatedly, in the media that there is a cancer catastrophe in India especially in Punjab on account of intensive agriculture that requires use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This is a...