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...
Carcinogens. What does WHO listing show? International Agency for Research on Cancer (an organ of WHO) lists certain natural products, foods and chemicals as having cancer causing potential. What most do not know is that the list also includes the following: Alcohol...
Indian Agriculture a Global Superpower It’s time to make it to be a leader in agri exports by CENTEGRO | May 31, 2020 The more progress we make, the more prosperous we become, it seems the more skeptical people become – about the future. Currently the media is full of...
Thought Starter Seventy percent of Indias population is rural, and contributes about 50 percent of Indias GDP. Agriculture is the biggest private enterprise in India in over 600,000 villages. That India ranks second globally in agricultural production demonstrates...
