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
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
Strategic Diagnostics Inc. has developed an inexpensive test to allow grain elevators to detect the presence of genetically altered soybeans as more buyers demand to know the genetic
Around the world people are taking a closer look at the genetic makeup of what they're eating-and growing uneasy with what they see. Over the past decade, genetically modified (GM) food has become
Eminent agricultural scientists MS Swaminathan is not in favour of importing pulses from Australia. Speaking to the directors of ICAR institutes on the "Science and Sustainable Food
A leading food scientist will cast doubt on the safety of established methods for testing genetically modified food. In a paper to the Royal Society of Chemistry, Dr Andrew Chesson of Rowett Research
Farmers in Rajasthan's Kota division are fighting a losing battle to save their crops. It's not the drough which has ruined harvest in large parts of the state, but an attack by
An insecticide prepared from roots of a plant traditionally used in making pickles and ayurvedic drugs has been found to be useful in warding-off pests attacking stored foodgrains.A dried powder
The European Commission said yesterday it had given its green light for Belgium to help its farmers survive the dioxin-in-food contamination crisis. The financial support consists of bank loans
It may sound tooo strange to be true but farmers in many parts of the world are using ants to control pests in their fields as predators. In the Solomans Islands cocunut palms ocupied by the ant
