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,
Twenty five long years have passes since the Indian Council for Agriculture Research Complex for North Eastern Hills Region was set up in Meghalaya to help upgrade the status of agriculture in the
When children in the Japanese city of Kawagoe on Tokyo's outskirts sit down for their school lunch, nothing on their plate must contain genetically changed food, local officials have ruled. The
The Rice Research Institute (RRI), Kala Shah Kaku, plans to launch extra-long grain and aromatic 'millennium basmati' variety before the next sowing season.This was stated by Information Deputy
The Himachal government has introduced national agriculture crop insurance scheme in the state from rabi 1999-2000 to provide insurance coverage to farmers in the event of failure of crops as a
Though the rural farmers in the Darrang district are aware of the utility of adoption of modern technology and practices in agriculture, yet they are a worried lot today as they are facing the twin
The Kerala government will set up the biggest seed production centre in the state at a cost of Rs. 36 crores. The project report for this is at its final stage. The seed farm will be located in the
National Fertiliser Development Centre (NDFC) of Planning and Development Division, in Collaboration with other related federal ministries, provincial organisations,fertiliser industry of Pakistan
South Korea's agriculture ministry said yesterday that it would prepare a proposal detailing guidelines for labelling food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) by the end of
Europe's highest court will today hear thearguments in a dispute over whether France had the legal right to freeze the authorisation of three strains of genetically modified (GM) maize.The French
South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Thursday that it would prepare a proposal detailing guidelines for labelling food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) by the end of
