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WEST BENGAL AGRICULTURE MINISTER WARNS AGAINST MULTI-NATIONAL SEED COMPANIES TAKING CONTROL OF SEED PRODUCTION; FARMERS VOW TO KEEP THEIR FIELDS AND VILLAGES GM FREE!
Atgorah Village, 24 North Parganas, West Bengal
On the culmination events of the Week of Rice Action in West Bengal, Sri. Naren Dey, Minister for Agriculture, said that 83% of the seeds sold in the country are produced by big corporations and the Indian seed producer the...
SOUTH INDIA CULMINATES WORA!!
By Clare Westwood
4 April 2007 Bhubaneswar, India - The Week of Rice Action 2007 culminated over a three-day stretch from 2 to 4 April 2007 in two states in India.
Delegates from PAN AP and WORA anchor organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh and...
WEEK OF RICE ACTION 2007 IN KERALA, INDIA
Protect Traditional Rice varieties; Protect Paddy cultivation as a heritage; Assure an income for the food producer declares Farmers Seminar in the Week of Rice Action 2007 at Palakkad, Kerala
By Usha S and Sridhar R
29th March 2007 - Palakkad, Kerala - Celebrating the Week of Rice Action, 150 paddy farmers from Palakkad, and other rice growing districts in Kerala, gathered at the Town Hall Annex in Palakkad, and...
WEEK OF RICE ACTION CULMINATES IN SEED FESTIVAL IN TAMIL NADU
By Burnad Fatima and Agnes Vimala
March 29th Tamil Nadu In conjunction with The Week of Rice Action, the village of Perambakkam and Tiruvallur Taluk district held a Seed Festival during which the public were given an insight into seed harvesting and...
SAVING RICE THROUGH SONGS
By Yeoh Jit Kooi
In the lake there was water, We had paddy grown,
We were very happy, Those were the days.
But now, where had that kind of life gone?
And what happened to these varieties?