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,
The controversy over field trials of the US firm Monsanto's genetically-engineered cotton in India has hotted up, with environmentalists accusing the government of not presenting correct facts.
A non-Government organisation has questioned the official justification of trials in transgenic (Bt) cotton at 40 locations in nine States and said that it will not necessary reduce application of
The agriculture ministry proposes to revampo the funding pattern of Centrally-aided development schemes to mitigate the problem of misutilisation and underutilisation of funds. Nearly 40 per cent of
Greens: The controversy over field trials of the US firm Monsanto's geneticallly engineered cotton in India has hotted up, with environmentalists accusing government of not presenting correct facts.
The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria have developed a hybrid tree that could reverse the long-term decline of the country's cocoa production. The scientists work will also contribute to the the
The "clandestine" field-trials of Bt cotton carried out in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh by Monsanto, have polluted fields in a radius of 2.5 km, according to Prof. Nanjundaswamy, farm activist and
The use of "Terminator technology" in agriculture has been banned by 16 research institutes, including one in India working under the Consultative Committee on International Agriculture Research
The campaign against the "irresponsible deployment of genetically engineered" Bt-Cotton crops of the United States based Monsanto Corporation is likely to get further intensified with the Vandana
Masur dal plants on 1050 hectares of land in Sadar, Charbhadarson and Sadarpur thanas of the district of Bangladesh have been damaged by pests. According to unofficial sources, masur dal plants were
After paddy and cotton crops, it is now the turn of potato. The hostile weather is wreaking havoc upon potato crop in Punjab. Due to cloudy weather, the late blight has attacked the crop creating a
