Farmers Weekly Land is to be zoned according to its development potential, as part of a radical shake-up of the planning system due to be announced by the government this week. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has promised major planning reforms…
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This Man’s Solar-Powered Unit Can Disinfect And Provide Jobs During COVID-19
In the early 1990s, Kuthambakkam, a village located on the outskirts of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, was riddled with several issues like illegal liquor trade, poverty, poor infrastructure, domestic violence and Dalit discrimination. But today, all these issues are a thing…
Born To Be Wild
Violet Brill looks at a forest the same way most people think about a supermarket. Walk through a park or wooded area with the 16-year-old and she can show you a number of wild plants that might make for tasty…
How to Help Your Whole Family Adopt a Sustainable Lifestyle
When people today talk of a sustainable lifestyle, it is common to hear many of them cite examples of practices that were passed down to them from their families. My mother’s advice never to buy new dishcloths is so ingrained…
Farmers on alert after spate of harvest fires and arsons
Farmers Weekly Farmers are on high alert after a spate of fires that ripped through fields and destroyed buildings and trailers during the busy harvest period. In Berkshire, a large blaze broke out at Berkyn Manor Farm in the early…
Merchants ditch on-farm grain sampling over safety concerns
Farmers Weekly Merchants are stopping sending grain samplers to farms because of safety concerns, pushing responsibility for drawing samples back to the grower and their staff. The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) announced in May that the long-running practice of sending…
Hyderabad Woman Helps 1800 People with Disabilities Get Jobs, Despite the Pandemic
Hyderabad-based Lulu Behmanshah was barely a year old when she was abandoned on the railway tracks. A social worker brought her to an orphanage, with a bad injury that would eventually lead to locomotor disability. While the clouds parted for…
MPs urge government to appoint food security minister
Farmers Weekly A cross-party group of MPs is demanding urgent action from the UK government to tackle food insecurity amid the coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and climate change. MPs from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee have warned…
ISRO Launches Free Online Course On ‘Remote Sensing’ For Students, Professionals
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) through its centre, the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), is inviting applications for a new online course titled ‘Remote Sensing Geographical Information System and Global Navigation Satellite System’. The course will be conducted…
Horsch introduces Taro 6m mounted drill range
Farmers Weekly A 6m mounted disc drill designed to make small, awkward-shaped fields easier to negotiate has been added to the Horsch range. It can be ordered in one of two formats – the Taro HD use a tyre packer to…