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,
Brazil's farmers are skirting a ban on genetically-modified (GM) crops and turning to the black market for illegal soybean seeds smuggled in from neighbouring
The Association of Planters of Kerala (APK) has urged the Centre to set up a Task Force under the Commerce Ministry to chalk out remedial measures on a long-term basis on the impact of WTO agreemnts
For a bite of a juicy Australian, American or New Zealand apples, just step into a fruit stall in Delhi. These apples have been pouring into the local market this season. And if you dare to argue
The father of the green revolution, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, has said, the world has enough resources and the technology to end hunger. What is missing is the will and commitment of the world community
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research (ERS) predicts that 40 per cent of the Asian region's population will be undernourished in 2008, but adds that "most Asian countries may be able
The average per hectare yield of jute in Bangladesh registered a decline from 19.4 quintal in 1997-98 while in China, the per hectare yield of jute increased from 24.8 quintals to 26.5 quintals
FAO: Bread might be the time-honoured 'staff of life' but Quinua, a starchy plant similar to corn that has been around the Andes for centuries, has been named by the UN Food and Agriculture
The identification of a gene which controls the size of plants may increase crop yields worldwide. The discovery made by the John Innes Centre in eastern England, has implications for the developing
U.S. farmers paid premium prices this spring to sow many of their fields with genetically engineered corn and soyabean see, but now as the fall harvest nears, more of the international buyers they
England's Countryside Stewardship Scheme, under which farmers apply to receive payments in return for protecting sections of land from over intensive farming, will be renewed. Funding levels for the
