The recently constituted Kerala Plantation Directorate will commission a vision document for plantations in the State for drawing up plans to make the sector profitable, job-generating and environmentally sustainable. The document is expected to cover the entire range of ideas from diversification of plantations to labour welfare, introduction of profitable tourism ventures and leveraging carbon credits from the sector, sources …
Probing through the thick, green leaves of a 15-foot-tall tree, 63-year-old Safiya Sulaiman plucked a reddish orb with a prickly rind. Ms. Sulaiman, according to officials with the Agriculture department, belongs to a growing list of farmers carefully nurturing an array of exotic fruits in the tropical hills of Kerala. As per State Horticulture Mission figures, the area under commercial …
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that securities created in 'Coffee plantations' can be enforced for the realization of debts as coffee plantations would not come within the scope and ambit of agricultural land, under the SARFAESI Act, insofar as the State of Karnataka is concerned. A division bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice Nataraj Rangaswamy said: "The …
