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,
Over the last one year, tonnes of baby corn, pop corn, gherkins, tomatoes, melody and potatoes have been grown on 200 acres of land on a pilot project in Cheldiganipalli village of Andhra Pradesh
The country imports edible oils worth Rs 7,000 per annum. During the current financial year, the country has so far imported edible oils to the tune of 14 lakh tonnes, from the total contracted
Monsanto Co put NutraSweet and rest of its food ingredient business up for sale to help pay for its $8 billion spending spree on crop biotechnology. The St.Louis seed and pharmaceutical company also
Philippine farmers are adopting a new method of transplanting rice seedlings that offers a big reduction in the use of water and a huge saving in labour. Yields are not affected, although some care
The central Siberian region of Novosibirsk has declared a state of emergency following an invasion of locusts from neighbouring Kazakhstan, a civil defence and emergencies department
Karnataka has rejected an offer made by the Reliance group to form cashew in the forest waste lands. This is despite the state Government and the department of Horticulture seeking an increase in
The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Kozhikode(Kerala), has bagged three national awards this year for research
The Philippine farmers are adopting a new method of transplanting rice seedlings that offers a big reduction in the use of water and a huge saving in labour. Yields were not affected, although some
The European Union has put forward plans for comprehensive quotas to control farm trade with eastern Europe after a series of damaging trade rows, according to Franz Fischler, the EU agriculture
Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) has asked government to take pre-emptive measures to avert the chances of attack of heliothis on the cotton crop. "The heliothis has been responsible for cut in the
