Ahmedabad, 27 August 2013 It seems, the much hyped Emu farming has turned out to be a failure in rural Gujarat. One-by-one, number of Emu farm owners have in last couple of months left their Emu birds in open, mostly in forests. Four such incidents have come to light in last couple of months, including the latest one in this week. The first incident surfaced in Vansda reserved forest in south Gujarat. An unknown Emu farm owners had left more than dozen Emu birds in r...Read More

Gandhinagar, 17 August 2013 Chief Minister Narendra Modi while inaugurating a two-day National Conference on Panchayati Raj and Rural Development called upon the countrymen to link the development with empowering of rural India and strengths of the villages. In his inaugural address Mr. Modi gave details about how the different development initiatives could be launched at the village level using the medium of Panchayati Raj. The two-day national conference orga...Read More

Ahmedabad, 29 December 2011 Over 8,000 villages voted today to elect their Sarpanch and panchayat body. Gujarat has total 18,000 villages. Of them over 10,500 were to elect their new Sarpanch today. However over 2,000 Panchayts elected their Sarpanch and local body unopposed. Rest of the villages witnessed election today. Today's election was the biggest polling exercise prior to Gujarat assembly general election scheduled in December 2012. Today's poll involved over 1.00 cror...Read More

Ahmedabad, 21 December 2011 Facing a glut of potatoes owing to two bumper crops in north India, the farmers in Gujarat, not being able to find buyers or good rates started dumping their crop on the roads of Deesa yesterday. With their produce getting just Re 1 per kg to Rs 2 per kg, farmers are not ready to procure potatoes lying in the cold storage. Shri Vipulbhai Shah, President of Deesa Municipality said that massive cleaning task is going on presently on the roads of the t...Read More

Deesa, 20 December 2011 Hit by a crop glut, hundreds of farmers participating in a huge protest rally on Tuesday dumped 100 tractors full potatoes on the highway in Deesa town of north Gujarat. Vinaykumar Gordhan Padhiyar, president of Gujarat Batata Utpadak Khedut Sangathan Samiti, a body of potato farmers, said the crop's price has reportedly fallen to as low as Re 1 per kg. More than 12.50 crore kgs of potatoes kept in cold storage across Gujarat are fetching just Re1 ...Read More

Gandhinagar, 15 December 2011 Thousands of farmers from all over Gujarat today gathered in a public meeting at Gandhinagar under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh to discuss various farmers related issues. Various speakers talked about the issues related to farmers such as insufficient prices of agriculture produce, growing prices of seeds, problems in supply of fertilizer, advent of multinational companies in the area of agriculture in India among others. Mem...Read More

Halvad, 9 December, 2011 Local farmers of Halvad belt in Surendranagar district are happy these days with a new service that provides them latest information about their crop and latest market price of their produce. Farmers like Kanjibhai Patel, Pravinsinh Rana, Mohanbhai Dalwadi or Bhanubhai Thakor receive latest prices of their agriculture produce while they are sitting in their farm or in their house. They get all the details on their mobile phone through short messaging s...Read More

In photo:IIM Ahmedabad Ahmedabad, 19 October, 2011 In context of fertilizer shortage in Gujarat and related issues arising, it would be interesting to note that Indian imports, which were about 2 million tonnes in early part of 2000, increased to 10.2 million tonnes of fertilizers in 2008-09! India is the second largest consumer of fertilizers in the world after China, consuming about 26.5 million tonnes. By 2020, fertilizer demand in the country is projected to increase to a...Read More