Nico Orgo Manures

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Nico Orgo Manures is a Patron Member of Division of Nematology Lal Bahadur Shastri Building Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi

In Orissa an RTI reply from OUAT indicates that the IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and NPM (Non pesticidal pest management) has done better than all the other measures in trying to control the fruit and stem borer. Should we aim at safe methods like NPM and IPM or choose the toxic Bt varieties in cotton and brinjal?

This information availed from OUAT shows that the damage in yield of Brinjal can be reduced through IPM And NPM. In fact fruit yield could be enhanced to 264.6 q/ha through NPM, i.e. by application of neem oil cake at land preparation and spraying multineem, installation of leucin lure, plucking of damaged shoots.

The Chairman of the expert committee, admitted in an interview to CNN IBN that, “Genetically Engineered food products will not be equal to the non-genetically engineered food products. That's for sure. Now, how much damage, we do not know at this stage".


Organic Agriculture and Climate Change

Climate change is a critical issue for agriculture and world food security and the international organic movement has an important role to play in helping farmers both to adapt to increasingly erratic and extreme weather and to reduce emissions and capture carbon. Organic agriculture’s avoidance of chemical nitrogen fertilizers and effectiveness in sequestering high levels of carbon in the soil is a major advantage over conventional agriculture. Based on nearly 30 years of soil carbon data, as outlined in their recent research report, the Rodale Institute estimates that organic farms could sequester 39% of global annual carbon emissions if the world’s cropland utilized organic agricultural practices including nitrogen-fixing cover crops and intensive compost inputs as promoted in their climate change campaign video. Rodale is one of a number of affiliates that has been very active in advocating for the climate benefits of organic agriculture. More information is available in this impressive interview with CEO Timothy LaSalle, as well as from LaSalle's contribution in the upcoming issue of Ecology and Farming, which is focused on organic farming research.

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Memberships

• Nico Orgo Manures is a Patron Member of Division of Nematology Lal Bahadur Shastri Building Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi.

• Nico Orgo Manures is now a member of the International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association (IBMA).

Events Participation

FCI Trade Summit Mexico at the Westin Resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
15-18 August, 2010.

5th Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM-Lucerne 2010), KKL Culture and Convention Center Lucerne,
Switzerland,
October 25th-26th 2010.

2010 FMB Europe Fertilizer Conference & Exhibition InterContinental Hotel, Vienna, Austria,
Wednesday 27th -
Friday 29th October 2010.