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,
The European Union should push for a change in international trade to ensure it can maintain its ban on hormone-treated beef, Kalevi Hemila, farm minister of Finland, said. Mr Hemila, whose country
Ministers from 21 Pacific Rim economies backed the launch this year of a three-year world trade liberalisation round and agreed to press for the abolition of agricultural export subsidies. Foreign
The Planning Commission has set up a task force on development of agro-forestry under the chairmanship of Commission member DN Tewari. The principal objective of the task force is to increase
The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) today took strong exception to a blanket order by the Army Headquarters to directors of military cattle farms across the country to cast and
The food deficit in the central development region of Nepal stands at staggering 1,41,211 metric tons per year, the Regional Director of Agriculture Tek Bahadur Thapa said. According to him only six
The board of the World Bank will take up an embarrassing challenge in connection with its controversial project to resettle 57,750 Chinese farmers in traditionally Tibetan lands in Quinghai in
Healthier human eating habits and demand for lean meat is causing anorexia in pigs, New Scientist magazine said. Thin sow syndrome, as the condition is known in pigs, is increasing
A Prolonged drought across much of Brazil's coffee belt, only now being relieved by spring showers, will certainly have caused losses to the 1999-2000 crop, leading co-operative Cooxupe said.
India has chalked out a five-point strategy for talks on review of World Trade Organisation(WTO) agreement on agriculture, favouring continuation of subsidy to developing nations' farmers to achieve
Even though US merchants are paying premiums for non-genetically modified maize and soya for export, it is hard to get more money out of European buyers, traders said yesterday. There
