Eat without pesticide live long

Eat what is without Pesticide Spray. Grow natural, eat natural and be healthy and fit. Its all will happen when you will aware about your diet. Specially on vegetables think before eat. Punjab Agriculture University Ludhian located in India having a research project on vegetable crops in collaboration with Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre (AVRDC) and Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) on ‘Improving Vegetable Production and Consumption for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Jharkhand and Punjab’. An annual review and planning meeting of the project was held today in the Farmers’ Service Centre of PAU. In his welcome remarks Dr. M.L.Chadha, Director AVRDC-RCSA said that India being the second largest producer of vegetables in the world occupying an area of 7.00 million hectare with a production of 98.5 million tones contribute 15% of the total world production. The availability of vegetables is about 200 g per capita per day, which is less than dietary requirement of 300 g per capita per day, said Dr. Chadha adding that due to pressure of population, rapid urbanization and industrialization, land available for cultivation is squeezing that necessitates high tech production under net-house. Dr. Chadha shared progress of vegetable growing under protected conditions in India and China and emphasized well planned approaches for recommending sustainable and economical technologies for vegetable production.

Dr. P.S.Minhas, Director of Research, while inaugurating the meeting said that PAU has developed hybrids of various vegetables and passed on hybrid technology to growers through training programmes. He said that PAU has recommended net-house technology for vegetables such as tomato, capsicum and brinjal that has been well received by farmers. He appreciated the role of AVRDC in promoting vegetable crops globally.

Dr. D.S.Dhillon, officiating Director of Extension Education said that home gardening can be one of the ways of increasing production of vegetables. He cautioned that due to the frequent use of pesticides, the problems of residue retention in edible produce need to be addressed. He said that vegetables can play a great role in nutritional security and agricultural diversification.

Mr. Baldev Singh, Director of Horticulture, Punjab appreciated that AVRDC will establish strong partnership with PAU and work on research strategies for year round urban and peri-urban production, supply of safe and nutritious vegetables, adoption and consumption of high value vegetables for improving income and nutrition of communities. He said that in Punjab vegetables are grown on an area of 1.68 lakh hectare producing 2.54 million tons with an average productivity of 15.1 tonne per hectare.

cutting the usage of agrochemicals and nourishing soil through ecological farming

cutting the usage of agrochemicals and nourishing soil through ecological farming
Voice of ecological farming comes out here. Smart Farming’, a forum convened by Greenpeace India launched a dialogue series titled ‘Smart Dialogues’ to discuss smart and sustainable farming solutions with a vision to ensure food security in India. The dialogue series was kicked off with a panel discussion on Soil Health and Agricultural Productivity in Punjab, organized by the forum in collaboration with Punjabi University Patiala, first in a series of discussions to be organized across the country by the Smart farming team.
Scientists, farmers, development professionals and students participated in the discussion and concluded that cutting the usage of agrochemicals and nourishing soil through ecological farming was the only way to save Agriculture in Punjab, which was at the verge of a crash down due to resource degradation. Prof. Sucha Singh Gill, Prof. of Economics and Dean (Research), Punjabi University said that “Punjab is heading towards an ecological disaster due to indiscriminate use of agrochemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides. The degraded soils in the state pose a big threat to food security and can cause serious economic implications not only for the state but also for the country.”
“The chemical nitrogenous fertilizers usage in Punjab has increased to over 200 kg/acre from a mere 5kg/ acre at the start of Green Revolution, rendering the soil sick. There is no microbial activity and the productivity has gone down drastically”, said Mr Umendra Dutt, Executive Director, Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM) in his keynote address. Dr Gopikrishna SR, Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner, Greenpeace India, said that “International scientific community has already realized the need to shift to ecological farming as a paradigm shift from the present mode of agriculture. But to bring changes on the ground a multi-stakeholder approach and broad ended discussions.” Prof. Inderjit Singh, Prof. Sukhwinder Singh (Punjabi University), Dr BS Joia and Dr G.S. Romana (PAU, Ludhiana), Dr Balwinder Singh Butahri (Former Divisional Soil Conservation Officer, Punjab) participated in the panel discussion.

Net house cultivation decrease pesticide use

Net house cultivation decrease pesticide use
The Punjab Agricultural University India has recommended net-house technology for vegetables. Many farmers are growing indeterminate tomato, capsicum and brinjal in net-house. Net-house cultivation helps to raise vegetables without the need of heavy application of pesticides. The produce of high quality, free from pesticide residue is harvested early that fetches better price during marketing. This was expressed by Dr. D.S. Cheema, Head Department of Vegetable Crops. He told that some farmers have started growing cucurbits in net-house, which is not recommended by PAU. He said that cucurbits are cross-pollinated crops and their fruit-setting takes place only by the activity of pollinators such as insects/honey bees. Since, there is no entry of insects in the net-house, fruit-setting does not occur in cucurbits due to lack of pollinators. He said farmers should grow only those cucurbits under net-house which produce parthenogenic fruits.

Some hybrids/lines of cucumber with parthenogenic fruits are being promoted by private companies for cultivation under net-house, said Dr. Cheema. He explained that parthenogenic varieties are those which develop fruits without any fertilization due to predominance of female flowers. A collaborative project of AVRDC-SRTT-PAU is being operated at PAU on net-house cultivation of vegetables where new vegetable crops are being identified so that net-house technology for year-round cultivation of vegetable crops is standardized, said Dr. Cheema. Another vegetable scientist, Dr. V. K. Vashisht, informed that PAU is evaluating parthenogenic germplasm of cucumber for their performance under net-house. According to PAU scientists use of pesticide is harmful for health. Use of pesticide should be decline. Pesticide usage badly effecting
environment and earth too. So farmer should wake up now.

Why not everyday is earth day

Why not everyday is earth day
Earth Day Again celebrated, Once again a little voice come out to protect world earth day. Day passed and everything become same. Why not every day is celebrating as world earth day. Its appreciable who try to think little about it.
Punjab agriculture university try to do so. A university from India which is only promoting agriculture on different issues.
According to Dr. Manjit Singh Kang, PAU Vice-Chancellor since all nations are sharing the same planet, Earth, it should be a combined responsibility with a commitment to keep it intact and in good form. He said that every day is an Earth Day and we must take steps to safeguard the Mother Earth each day. Dr Kang appreciated that students are conscious of the problems the Earth is facing today. He said that if Earth is kept in a sound form, the production system will be sustainable. We have drawn more than we returned to the natural resource base, said Dr Kang, adding that this imbalance is adversely affecting sustainability.

Dr Kang said that PAU created environment awareness among the farming community through keeping Kisan Mela themes such as ' Save water, save Punjab'(Punjab is a agriculture dominate state in india), 'Save environment, save Punjab' and said that now the theme is ' Save environment, save humanity'. He attributed the increasing human density per unit area to the multitude of environmental and other problems. Dr Kang had an interactive session with participating students and asked questions about the Indian population and growth rate. At home, we could endeavour to save energy, at work we could contribute for reducing pollution by using bicycle and resorting to other measures like saying no to littering, cutting trees, use of non-degradable products, sharing vehicles, etc. In schools the teachers could spread environmental concerns among students, he said. Appreciating the organization of Earth Day to apprise students about ecological concern, Dr. Kang said that in the coming years the event will be organized in a bigger way.

Dr. R.K. Mahey, said that organizing functions to instill awareness about protecting our mother Earth is an excellent step. He said that water and air being the basis of life needs to be protected against pollution and misuse. Tracing the history of celebrating Earth Day, he said that the day is observed to sensitize people about environment protection. He added that youth, especially students, should take the message of environment conservation in terms of saving energy, greening surroundings, saving paper, population control, etc. to others.

Dr. Daljit Singh Dhillon, officiating Director of Extension Education said Earth Day is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. He added that environment pollution of soil, water and air is adversely affecting our natural resource base. He highlighted how factory effluents, poly-bags, dumping in water bodies, excessive de-forestation, etc are adversely affecting living.

Earlier, Dr. S.S. Gosal, Additional Director Research (Agri.) talked on the effect of climate change and agriculture. He said an intact Earth is of concern for everyone. He said that factors like high temperature, excessive rain, frost, drought and dry spells can have a bearing on crop productivity. He said that an increase of temperature by one degree Celsius taking place in December adversely affects tillering and in March/April affects grain filling. He traced various effects of global warming. Dr. Gosal said that Earth Day is an occasion to pledge to safeguard environment and the blue planet.

Alamrming stage for air pollution. Lesser greenary and increasing pollution is a sign of Danger. Open eyes now or it will be too late.

Save water.

Water is precious so its time to save it. Water level in Punjab (A agriculture state) is facing the problem of down water level. Due to rice crop every year 1 foot to 3 feet water is going down. Its still continue

No political call for environment

Worlds largest democratic country India is again moving for its new political scenario. Political parties and groups of politicians are liking again their voters with long election manifestoes. But no party, no politician have added even single line for the improvement of environment. No body saying they will improve indian environment after winning election. Whole election compaign is moving arround cheap grain availablity for the voters. But no body telling how long people can live with polluted environment. No body announcing how much their party will spend on eco system in india. People want only personal interests and politician trying to attract them. So mercy for india and for earth too.
Voters of India should raise a issue of environment before politicians. What they did and what they will do for their pollution free lives. How the coming generation will live in clean and safe environment.

Water is the most precious gift of the nature and is essential for sustenance of life.But human being forgetting its value. Inspite of use it human being is exploiting it. Specially in agriculture sector farmers are not caring its use. In india rice cultivation is increasing day by day. Its effect is that not only water is using many times more than other crops but also usage of electricity alsor increasing through Tubewells. India is facing the problem of scarcity of electricity. Solar energy could not introduce here due to high cost.
If we talk about air, It is one of most important component, which influences economic, agricultural and industrial growth of mankind.
Of all water on earth, 97.5% is salt water, and of the remaining 2.5% fresh water, some 70% is frozen in the polar icecaps. The other 30% is mostly present as soil moisture or lies in underground aquifers. In the end, less than 1% of the world's fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human uses (www.who.int).
India has only 4.2 percent of world’s fresh water resources to sustain 16 and 17 percent of world’s human and animal populations per capita annual average of 5,177 cubic meter in 1951, fresh water availability in India dropped to 1,820 cubic meter in 2001. In fact, it is predicted that by 2025, per capita annual average fresh water availability will be 1,340 cubic meter approximately.
Per capita availability of water less than 1700m3 is considered as ‘stress’ level beyond which water availability gets classified as scarcity level. Below this level, availability of water is considered a severe constraint on economic development and environment quality (GOI, PC, 2007-2012).
Punjab is endowed with rich water resources. Punjab was fortunate in having five perennial rivers. But after partition in 1947, Punjab was left with three perennial rivers, Ravi, Beas and Sutluj and one seasonal river Ghaggar. Besides this, three internationally important wetlands, two nationally important wetlands, several state wetlands, canals and drains, ponds and reservoirs exist in the state. So People of India whatever they are farmer or industrialist. Think about save water, Save energy and protect environment

'Drishti' the people organisation

Its time to open eyes. Just look out of yourself and try to see and listen the nature. On the corner of huge construction a little plant is counting its last breath.Crying to human being to protect him. So that he can protect human being. No body listening him. Humans are passing with a excuse of No time to listen and think it. But Plant crying loudly now you have no time for me. But in future you will find him to increase your breath for life. So awake from ignorance sleep Now or it will be late in future.

Naresh Batish