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 transplanting of paddy is at its peak at certain places in Punjab. The operation started quite early in May. In this growers ignored the experts who did not recommend transplanting before June
The Japanese Ambassador to India, Mr. Hiroshi Hirabayashi, formally inaugurated the first phase of the Japanese Government funded multi-crore-rupee Manipur sericulture project in
Agricultural scientist Vithalbhai J Patel has ushered in a veritable revolution in arhar dal production, based on high-yielding Japanese seeds which can produce three to five tonnes per acre in
The killing of a tea garden owner and his son by tribal terrorists in Tripura has triggered panic in the state's tea industry . At least a dozen plantation managers have decided to leave the state
"Biofertilizer" - biologically fixed nitrogen (BNF) has increased grain yields by up to 500 per cent and brought sizeable savings compared to artificial fertilizers on farms across Zimbabwe. For the
Virtual shutdown of North Korea's food distribution system is forcing many of its people, especially women and children, to survive on bark and wild plants until the summer harvest, aid officials
The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Bio-technology, a centre for excellence for advanced research and training in bio-technology, intends to breathe fresh air into the long-drawn but controversy-ridden
A new fungal disease, which is wreacking havoc in many rubber plantations in Kerala and Karnataka, has cast a shadow on the future of over ten lakh growers in the country. The disease, which is
Floods have affected at least 20 tea gardens in the Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district. About 1,000 sq km of tea plantation area has been badly hit, said the Secretary of the Dooars branch of the
The perpetual shrinkage of the cotton producing area covered by the World Bank-aided Intensive Cotton development Programme(ICDP) in the Northern India has become a serious cause of concern for the
