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 export earnings of developing counries fromt he principal agricultural commodities are estimated to have decreased by $4.6 biliions, about six per cent, 1998. Three commodites - sugar, cotton and
The European Commission had demanded an urgent explaination from the French authorities of reports that French companies have been using sewage in the manufacturing of animal feed. Brussels wrote to
In Balochistan (Pakistan), a new breed of bulls and cows has been developed by the Livestock Department for the maximum output of milk, meat and dairy products. According to official quarters this
Novartis AG, the biggest maker of crop-protection products, and other companies say they might move gene-modified crop-testing out of the UK if test fields there continue to be destroyed by
The environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth said on Friday it was taking the British government to court over the "rushed" approval of an expansion of genetically modified crop trials.
Irish police said they were investigating the destruction of an experimental sugar beet crop owned by Monsanto, of the US, in the southern county of Cork. Monsanto said the genetically modified sugar
The biotechnology industry may switch trials of gene altered crops from the UK to other parts of Europe if the UK government cannot protect trial sites from destruction by activists. Some of next
Sometimes you can't win. The British government has managed to upset the companies that specilise in genetically modified food technology as well as the environmentalists who demand an end to GM
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to indicate the steps it had taken to protect the interests of farmers in the issue of U.S. patents on 'Basmati'
In the wake of enthusiastic response generated at the just concluded Kochi Internaitonal Tea convention, the tea industry has brewed a mega plan to hold another global convention at Delhi during
