Though immediate credit and non-credit relief measures addressing the farming community are essential, the design and delivery system should be strengthened. Agricultural indebtedness if not the root cause of the crisis but only a symptom and hence needs to be dealt in its totality. Rescheduling of loans and relieving of interest burden up to two years in the case of farmers affected by natural calamities, drought conditions in rainfed areas and farmers in distress due to production crisis...

The Daily World - www.dailyworld.com - Opelousas, LA Welcome toThe Daily World-Opelousas, LA. Landry Parish and surrounding areas will have opportunity to experience agriculture and develop leadership and life skills through a three-year grant funded by the Heifer Project International. Agromen inc., a local agricultural organization of professional men whose mission is the "advancement of agriculture through education and information sharing among members and other organizations,"...

Senior agricultural officer-Macuata Sugrim Chand says the government has been spending $21 million every year to import rice from other countries for local consumption. Rice farms in Fiji are now using Indonesian style farming techniques in an effort to boost rice production. In its quest to revamp the rice industry in Fiji, the Ministry of Agriculture in the North recently adopted the Indonesian farming techniques as it aims to reduce the amount of money being spent annually by the...

But this year, obesity has become a national obsession just as Congress is embarking on one of its periodic overhauls of the nation's farm policy. In response to growing concerns about health, particularly children's health, the new five-year farm bill going before the Senate now provides a record $2 billion for specialty crops, including money to buy fruits and vegetables for school lunches and to assist organic agriculture. A kernel of truth? Nation's obese are corn-fed. The national...

Mudgee is at the fore of exciting new directions in farming practice with about 300 farmers, graziers and agricultural professionals from across Australia flocking to the carbon farming conference at AREC. A striking feature of the conference was the buzz of enthusiasm participants showed for the future of farming an industry that has endured tough times recently. Considered a world first, the conference indicated that the grass roots movement for changes in agricultural practice and...

Supreme Court to intervene in a Maryland lawsuit and a Nebraska criminal case to protect the fundamentalist group's right to protest at military funerals. Supreme Court to intervene in a Maryland lawsuit and a Nebraska criminal case to protect the fundamentalist group's right to protest at military funerals. Ben Nelson is co-sponsoring a measure to limit federal subsidies available to farmers. Senate because he has too many important city issues to resolve. Special report Read The...