Agriculture is multi-functional, producing economic goods including food, feed, fibre, and fuel, as well as providing several intangible or non-tradable services to society free of cost. Non-tradable services,
Australia was becoming an international laboratory for the development of genetically modified food crops, a British farming expert warned yesterday. In Australia for this weekend's inaugural
Report: US farmers are cutting back their plantings of genetically altered corn, cotton and soyabean seeds this eyar, even though farmers are planting more of all three crops, according to a
Over 296 sheep and goats have reportedly died of pneumonia in Abdasa taluka of Kutch district of Gujarat. The animals allegedly died because of lack of
More than 100 delegates from India and abroad are expected to participate in the first South Asia Rice Conference, SARC 2000, being held in New Delhi from March
Gujarat today adopted a Bill which will enable it to book, under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, people involved in the slaughter of cows and
Genetically engineered canola not yet approved for public release in Australia have been found in a garbage dump, The Age newspaper has
Villagers living close to the Mahananda sanctuary are slowly replacing cultivation of paddy with mulberry to prevent elephants from intruding into their settlements. The sanctuary is part of the
Australia and Singapore joined three other nations in suspending imports of beef and pork from South Korea and Japan on Wednesday as concern spread over disease found in cattle. The Korean
In what is seen as a defeat for Greenpeace and the French farm unions, the European Union's (EU) highest court decided that France did not have the right in 1998 to suspend approval of three
Domestic consumers of tea produced in India are at stake as tea estates are found to use impure dicofol with great impunities containing DDT, a persistent organic pollutant (POP), the use of which is
