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,
Though India continues to have the largest acreage under tea- 4.18 lakh hectares - the planters are dogged with problems such as the rising cost of production and wages for labour. Many of the tea
Plant bio-technology will generate higher yields, create healthier foods and increase plants' use as a source of pharmaceuticals, according to Mr. Hendrick Verfaillie, President of Monsanto Co.
Minimum space requirements for battery hens would be almost doubled under plans outlined by the European Commission. The Commission said financial aid would be available for European Union farmers to
World Bank has asked the provincial government to encourage greater participation of non governmental organisations (NGOs) to boost agriculture production in Sindh. Agriculture Minister Syed Murad
The commercialisation of agriculture and the Punjab Government's encouragement to farmers towards diversification from the usual wheat-rice cycle to sugarcane has resulted in development of unique
After excelling in foodgrain and milk produciton. Punjab's farmers are preferring something really hot: chillies.
More than 22.3 million rats were killed in an all-out campaign to get rid of the rodents devastating Vietnam's crops in the first two months of this year, which amounts to nearly half the total
Tea majors including Goodricke Group, Warren, Eveready, Jay Shree, Duncans and a host of other companies with interests in Darjeeling, are working towards the creation of a Darjeeling Development
An unidentified disease has infected coffee plantations in the Kodagu district in Karnataka, leaving no clue to scientist to diagnose, even as some suggest that Bordeaux mixture could be used to
The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) has drawn up a project for the Ninth Plan to bridge the critical gaps between technology generations and assessment and enhancement of
