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,
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), one of the most common diseases affecting Indian livestock, can now be detected with a simple test that uses air samples from the area with infected animals. The test
Nature is playing havoc with the tea gardens in the hills of Darjeeling. As the area did not receive rain for nearly six months, until the first week of April, the gardens not only lost huge
The UK environmental campaigners on Thursday called a for a third of conventional farms to convert to organic production by 2010 in a bid to limit "industrialised farming" methods. Environmental
Research into the properties of neem or azadirachta indica, a botanical cousin of mahogany, have brought to light factors which offer scope for its commercial exploitation. At the World Neem
The Gujarat government would have to suffer a loss of Rs 35 crore in the current financial year as a result of the "support price" it has been giving to the state's cotton-growers since March 3,
Every week, it seems, brings a new food scare. And each scare, whether valid or dead wrong, has the potential to jolt the nation's diet. But ever since apple sales plummeted a decade ago, after a
Dr Dharminder Singh, member, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC), Economic and Planning Cell, yesterday alleged in a press note that cotton farmers had fallen in a deep debt trap and the Punjab
Brazil's Government plans to specially label all genetically modified (GM) foods and their ingredients, mirroring a system recently adopted in Europe, the Agriculture Ministry has said.The
Taking a strong stance in Britain's debate over genetically modified food, Prince Charles yesterday said he said not think such crops were adequately tested or necessary. Prince Charle's own farm in
Washington's apple industry wants to make sure that a bite into a red delicious will yield a satisfying crunch, not a mouth full of mush. Rich Ozanich and Al Robinson hope their research into systems
