New flavors of honey, kesar mango, litchi or mustard can be obtained
DILIP PATEL
Gandhinagar 20 November 2021
Farmers in Gujarat now chase flowers and take bees from village to village. Where you can find honey that smells like fragrant flowers. Farmers also allow such beekeepers to keep hives in their fields. Which has the advantage of both.
Honey with a taste similar to cumin, fennel, mustard and groundnu...
Marigold flowers, which have the highest productivity in India in Guja...
Dilip Patel
Orange Marigold. French marigold is a new variety with two colored flowers. Whose border is orange and deep red in the middle. The size is small with the dispersal nature of the plant. Flowers are seen throughout the year. Flowers appear 30-35 days after planting. Plants last up to 3 months. Color changes depending on light, temperatur...
Finding 25 varieties of grains in Gujarat keepingin a Germ bank
Dilip Patel 15 november 2021
Kong is a variety of black, red, white and yellow. The Indian government has discovered 25 varieties of Kang cereals, traditionally grown in Gujarat, and collected their seeds for a bank in German Paz. This is a whole new type of Kong. which was not noted earlier.
These varieties include Ambe Mor, Bangadu, Chahapure...
Integrated farming system model successful or unsuccessful in Navsari ...
Dilip Patel
Four integrated farming system models were established for year-round income and employment. Agriculture Crops Rice, Maize, Jowar, Red Gram, Green Gram, Horticultural Banana, Papaya, Guava, Pomegranate, Apple, Rosewood, Pomelo Citrus Vegetables, Livestock 0.56 ha wetland IFS model including Ongole Cows. Kadaknath and Asil have been dev...
Gujarat tops in eating banana in Shravan, a new way to produce
Gandhinagar, 23 August 2021
People in India eat 23 kg of bananas per person per year. Gujarat produces 71 kg of banana per capita, in year. Gujarat produces three times more bananas than the Indian average. There is an increase in eating bananas in the month of Shravan. Gujarat is already a vegetarian zone. Now people are eating raw food instead o...
Close agricultural schools teach farming to progressive farmers
Gandhinagar, 2 August 2021
When school started on the farm in 2007-8, 865 farmers and agricultural students and scientists attended. 1600 farm schools were built in 5 years. In which 60 thousand farmers were taking care. 8 thousand women farmers or cattle ranchers also went to school. Now the farm school is on the verge of closure. The way the g...
The farmer of Gujarat is hardworking all over the country, govt. faile...
Gandhinagar, 29 July 2021
The role model of BJP for Gujarat is projected across the country. If Gujarat has any biggest project then it is the canals of Narmada dam and Kalpasar project in Gulf of Khambhat. BJP has been working on both these schemes for the last 26 years.
The Prime Minister of the country, Narendra Modi could not make a Kalps...
Ladakh has been branded by APEDA Organic Fruit Sea Buckthorn, nothing ...
Gandhinagar, 26 July 2021
APEDA will provide special assistance for branding and promotion of Ladakh products. The target is to make Ladakh an organic zone by the year 2025. A lot of emphasis will be placed on the branding of a fruit called sea buckthorn which is used for medicine. Fruits are rich in vitamin C, omega and other essential nutrients....
Maize production decreased in Gujarat due to armyworm, area increased
Gandhinagar, 25 July 2021
Farmers who have been cultivating maize for the last several years are troubled by the fall of the Fall Armyworm. This time in most of the states, the maize crop is declining due to the outbreak of the disease. The area under maize cultivation has reduced, last year the farmers had to suffer a lot due to armyworm. Pro...
Farmers in trouble due to lack of sowing in 5 to 6 thousand villages o...
Gandhinagar, 14 July 2021
Monsoon officially started in Gujarat on 15th June and today after a month, it is on 14th July 2021, Yet, barely 50 per cent of the area has been sown. Farmers could not sow in 50 percent of the fields. There are 27 talukas that have received two inches of rain where farmers are in trouble. In 5500 to 6 thousand village...
Demand for good Poi Bhaji benefits for cancer, kidney and heart diseas...
Gandhinagar, 14 June 2021
According to scientists, 300-400 grams of green vegetables should be eaten daily. In which 116 grams of leafy vegetables should be eaten. It is considered a complete diet. The yield of Poi Bhaji (Bacella alba) in the field is 150 to 300 quintals per hectare. Watering has to be done in 10-15 days. It can be beneficial fo...
Palm oil is the way to farmers’ ruin
Dilip Patel, Ahmedabad 11 July 2021
Oil from palm fruit is a big blow to Gujarat's oil production. The price of single oil and cotton oil in Gujarat is barely 800-1200 kg per hectare. Then abroad palm produced is of 5000 to 6000 kg per hectare. Palm oil is cheap because of production. Therefore it is a loss deal for the farmers of Gujarat. If pa...
In Gujarat, 2 lakh tonnes banana fiber, a mill has been started to mak...
Dilip Patel
Gandhinagar, 8 July 2021
Navsari University has developed the technology of making cloth and paper by making banana stem. 10 years after its invention, a banana thread cloth-making project begins next month in Maharashtra. It was discovered in Gujarat in 2011. But its production was not commercially feasible for 10 years. Now the ...
Paddy purchase at half a percent support price, injustice to the farme...
Gandhinagar, 7 July 2021
The Narmada project does not allow to grow 100 lakh tonnes of rice in Gujarat, but buys half a percent of rice from Gujarat on support price from rice growers.
When Gujarat built India's largest Narmada irrigation scheme, rice production should have been as much as 133 million tonnes if Punjab's farmers grew. But producti...
If rain does not come in 22 days, Gujarat farmers will lose crores of ...
Gandhinagar, 6 July 2021
There has been no rain in Gujarat for the last 10 days. There is no possibility of the Meteorological Department coming till 12 July 2021. Thus, at least 50 percent of the 45 lakh hectares that do not receive 20 days of rainfall are at risk.
Irrigation of rained crops can also reduce production by 50 percent.
Sowin...
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