Malaysians dig deep, honing green fingers during shutdown
Ms Ivy Sam of organic farm Homegrown Farms says many people asked for farming workshops during the Movement Control Order which started on March 18.PHOTO: HOMEGROWN FARMS PUBLISHED JUL 7, […]
Bhutan could be world’s first wholly organic nation within a decade
theguardian: by Jo Confino — Bhutan could within a decade become the first country in the world to go wholly organic in its food production, according to key politicians in the Himalayan kingdom. Agriculture and forests minister Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji and opposition leader Pema Gyamtsho, who held the post in […]
Antibiotic crisis – Modern farming and its risks for human health.
Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization warns that resistance to antibiotics could bring “the end of modern medicine as we know it”. Already a scratch on the leg of a child could have fatal consequences. The problem is also caused by modern agriculture, where feeding antibiotics to cattle […]