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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contemporary issues. 3.2 Project Theme: Green Design Product Title: A new display panel for Serdang Green Town. 4.0 FINDING & ANALYSIS Resource: Internet Definition: 4.1 Definition of display panel Display panel is a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view display board. The information to be display can be for advertisements‚ image‚ education purpose‚ and movie poster. 4.2 Definition of green technology Green Technology is the development
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Animal rights are practically non-existent in many different ways today. Factory farming is probably the worst thing they can do to the poor helpless animals. Factory farming effects chickens‚ cows‚ pigs‚ and many other animals that are used for food‚ milk and eggs. One of the biggest organizations against factory farming is called Compassion Over Killing (COK). They go to great lengths to protest and inform people about animal cruelty. Chickens have to endure suffering that no living thing should
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November 24‚ 2008 Factory Farming Factory -farming is not only irresponsible and in many ways a form of animal abuse‚ it’s also an existing danger to consumers buying animal products which aren’t properly taken care of or sanitized. For most American consumers today the concept of where there food really came from‚ or what kind of life an animal led before it was Sunday’s dinner doesn’t cross their mind. In the past‚ animal derived food products have been linked to but not restricted to such
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Dairy Farming: Dawn to Dusk They say you never know what you have until it is gone. This may sound cliché but I can relate to this one hundred and ten percent. From the time I was born‚ my farm was always alive. There was an enormous amount of energy and atmosphere around my house. We raised dairy cows and if you are familiar with dairy farming‚ you know that it gets to be quite a task. It is a year round job that requires a large investment of your time. It involved my entire family – my parents
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Organic Farming Organic farming is a form of agriculture that does not use synthetic‚ which means artificial‚ fertilizers‚ pesticides and genetically modified organisms. Organic basically defines a way of growing‚ processing‚ and handling food. Organic farming promotes biodiversity. The dictionary defines biodiversity as the diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment. The goals of organic farming includes maintaining diverse crops‚ keeping soil healthy‚ reducing pollution
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Retention of people in dairy farming – what is working and why? Executive Summary and Case Studies Dr Ruth Nettle‚ Augusto Semmelroth‚ Dr Rebecca Ford (University of Melbourne) Dr Connie Zheng‚ Aman Ullah (Deakin University) Gardiner Foundation August 2011 Executive summary The sustainability of dairy farming relies on people wanting to work or invest in dairying over time. How willing people are to work or invest will change over time and depends on the relative attractiveness
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their bodies. Over the past century‚ industrialization has occurred in our food systems and‚ in turn‚ resulted in the loss of nutrition and local farming. Organic farming provides not only an alternative safe and healthy farming model‚ but a way to correct the flaws in our current system. There are many benefits of organic foods and organic farming. Organic foods are free of harmful chemicals‚ artificial flavors‚ and preservatives. Conventional farmers use over 300 different pesticides to grow
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Nr. 50 July 2009 Climbing beans‚ double yields A lot of beans on a small place: This is the benefit of climbing beans. And they are easy to harvest! The Organic Farmer A large section of the Kenyan population is unable to afford high protein food with adequate proteins‚ such as meat and eggs. This is where beans play a very important part; they are a cheap source of proteins. Unfortunately‚ the production of beans in most parts of the country is declining. The problem is the lack of good seeds
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Vertical farm is found and invented from Danish farmhouse back in the 1950s that attempted to grow cress which is have a preperry‚ tangy flavoured herbs botanically that related to mustard. Vertical farm is a greenhouse-based method of agriculture‚ where commercially viable crops would be cultivated and grown inside multi-storey buildings that will mimic the ecological system. Safe and efficient methods of recycling organic wastes as well as the recycling of water wastes from sewage
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