Globally 30 percent of the food produced never reaches to a human stomach (FAO, 2021). Tackling food loss and waste benefits the climate, food security, and sustainability of agri-food systems. India suffers
The threat of an attack on US soil from biological warfare has increased in recent years as the intelligence community has discovered organisms grown in foreign laboratoreies aimed at disrupting
The Punjab Government has directed the Deputy Commissioners in the state to initiate action against those combine harvest operators who will harvest unripe paddy, operate their combines during night
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has launched a banking plan to facilitate the re-financing of pineaple growers in North Bengal, who seek to switch over to the
One of Britain's top science forums was told on Tuesday that genetically modified crops could make people healthier. "Nothing is safe," argued professor Ben Miflin of the University of Nottingham.
The US consumers want more labelling and stricter regulation of genetically modified food, according to a survey. Almost 70 per cent of survey respondents said the US Government shoudl require
The Supreme Court has given respite to all the accused in the Himachal "apple scam" case holding that there was no evidence, direct or circumstantial, to support the charge of conspiracy to cheat the
There have been less damages to crops, property and human lives this year on account of natural calamities in the monsoon period. ON the other hand, in this monsoon season, the country received
Fruit growers of Himachal Pradesh suffered a loss of Rs 4 crore due to the "substandard" and "recycled" apple packing boxes supplied by the government undertaking corporations Agro Packaging
The Asia-Pacific region could face a serious food shortage in the next three decades because of sharply rising population and natural resource degradation, food experts said today. The shortage
"Poland will not enter the European Union on the backs of its farmers. We will not lie down and be trampled," says Andrzej Lepper, a former boxer who heads Poland's most belligerent farmer's union.
