Organic Farming Association of India Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI) G-8 St. Britto’s Appartment‚ Fiera Alta‚ Mapusa‚ Goa - 403507 myofai@gmail.com Issues with FDI in Multi-Brand Retail for Indian Agrarian Community Submission to Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP)‚ Ministry of Commerce & Industry stakeholders meeting held on 13th January 2012 Udyog Bhawan‚ Delhi Summary Statement OFAI supports retail reforms in the form of improving supply chain and infrastructure
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health. Organic farming techniques‚ on the other hand‚ have recently been introduced as another possible solution to sustainable agriculture. Organic methods‚ including of crop rotation‚ pest management‚ and cover crops‚ have proven to be less damaging to the environment. Despite the proven benefits‚ some believe that organic farming methods will not produce enough food to feed the world’s growing population. Therefore‚ this side of the agricultural debate insists on merging organic farming and industrial
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just looking at this we can see that local farming is very beneficial. But not only it is fresh and cheap‚ it supports the locals and reduces the environmental cost. First‚ it is beneficial for the consumers. Typical vegetables and fruits are usually picked 4 to 7 days before the distribution so in this period the products are kept in the freezing facilities. However‚ when you freeze the vegetables‚ their quality goes down. On the other hand‚ local farming provides fresh newly picked foods to the
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The Future of Farming As the world continues to develop and attempts to provide for the ever growing population‚ more and more land is being diminished‚ which will eventually destroy the topsoil due to the use of petroleum based fertilizers and other unnatural means of producing vegetation. As this challenge faces us‚ we will be forced to find other ways of supporting ourselves instead of relying on the farms we have today. It is important that we realize the importance of practicing sustainable
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Factory Farming is cruel to animals Student 1 PHI 103 Instructor KB 09 July‚ 2013 Factory Farming is Cruel to Animals It is so amazing that most Americans are so caring of the animals they keep as pets‚ and yet are so unconcerned about the upbringing or disposition of the ones they cook for dinner. It is amazing how some Americans see themselves as sympathizing folks and animal lovers until they reflect on what they just ate. Society loves animals as pets‚ adopts
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FISH FARMING Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture‚ while other methods may fall under mariculture. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures‚ usually for food. A facility that releases young (juvenile) fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species’ natural numbers is generally referred to as a fish hatchery. Worldwide‚ the most important fish species used in fish farming are carp‚ salmon‚ tilapia and catfish
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Pig Latin Spoken in English-speaking countries Classification Language game Spoken with English See also: Language games Pig Latin is a constructed language game where words in English are altered according to a simple set of rules. Pig Latin takes the first consonant (or consonant cluster) of an English word‚ moves it to the end of the word and suffixes an ay (IPA [eɪ]) (for example‚ pig yields igpay‚ banana yields ananabay‚ and trash yields ashtray). The objective is to conceal the
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Blake’s’ ‘The Tiger’ published in 1794 and ‘View of a Pig’ by Ted Hughes published in the 1960’s. Question 1 How do the poets’ attitudes to their respective animals differ? Firstly I think that in Hughes’ ‘View of a Pig’‚ it seems the poet has a kind of morbid fascination with the carcass of the animal. This is derived from the fact that there is a theme of deadness repeated throughout the poem. He seems fascinated with the ‘deadness’ of the pig. ‘Set in death‚ seemed not just dead’‚ ‘It was too
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Guinea Pigs are not in fact as the name suggests‚ pigs‚ they are members of the rodent family more specifically hystricomorphic rodents‚ related to porcupines and chinchillas. Guinea Pigs or Cavia Porcellus originated in the South American Andes and it is suggested that they are the domesticated descendants of closely related Cavy‚ Cavia apera‚ Cavia fulgidia and Cavia Tschudii. Wild guinea pigs tend to be smaller in statue than their domesticated cousin‚ generally though they have short round legs
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"The Tower Pig." The story is set behind‚ and outside‚ the walls of the Thomaston Penitentiary in present day America. The story essentially revolves around a young man who suffers the hardships of imprisonment in an American correctional facility. The protagonist is throughout the tale addressed only by his surname‚ Caine. Caine expresses incomprehensible anger he feels for one of the wardens‚ an outcast despised by colleagues and inmates alike‚ and who is commonly known as "The Tower Pig" by all
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