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Cow urine kills pests in India’s first fully organic state

On: June 26, 2016

SIKKIM: Nimtshreng Lepcha seeps medicinal leaves in cow urine and sprays the brew over his tomatoes. It’s the main way pests are repelled on his farm in the Himalayan foothills and across the northeastern state of Sikkim, the first in India to go fully organic. For more than a decade,Continue Reading

Students join to cultivate organic rice

By: Matters India

On: July 16, 2015

In: Youth

Patna: Students from the Jesuit run St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology braved the rain and joined the cultivation of Organic Rice at Tarumitra Bio-reserve this afternoon. They congregated as a volunteer force to explore the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method at Tarumitra, a 1000 kilometres away fromContinue Reading