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,
Blair: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday the jury was still out on genetically modified food and he urged people not to condemn it out of hand as a Frankenstein
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has granted over $3.5 million for the development and large-scale adoption of high yielding technologies in the rice and spices sectors in India.
Production of golden leaf in hundreds of tea estates in north Bengal and Assam has been affected by a prolonged dry spell coupled with menacing pest infection, according to the Indian Tea
Tobacco growers in Andhra Pradesh have charged the State Trading Corporation (STC) with entering tobacco auction platforms half-heartedly without necessary expertise and infrastructure. The result
The Rome Declaration at the World Food Summit calls for world food security and the right of all people to have access to safe and nutritious food. The summit had called for eradicating hunger in
Prince Charles has intervened dramatically in the debate over genetically modified food, challenging claims that the products are safe to eat and safe for the environment. The heir to the British
African coffee producers have launched an initiative to try to secure the future of the international coffee agreement, which is on the verge of collapse. The five-year agreement is intended to
With the setting up of a computerised semen bank at Ropar, farmers and dairy farm owners of six districts in the state wll now be benefited in a big way. They will get healthy offspring , more milk
The Haryana government has incurred expenses for more than Rs 40 crore on implementation of the slab system in power tariffs based on depth of tubewells to agriculture sector after the present state
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has provided a fresh grant assistance or $8,00,000 (Rs 3 crore) to support pilot programme on hybrid maize development under the UNDP supported country
