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,
India would not challenge the patent given to the American company, Ricetec, as it was confined to only a certain variants of basmati rice developed by that company and did not bar the country from
According to analysis, the reported grant of patent by the US Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) to the Alvin (Texas)-based Rice Tec Inc for rice claimed to be superior to Basmati may not have too many
In a bid to make Haryana disease-free so as to enable it to enter world trade of export of live animals and animal products, the State Government has formulated a Rs 91.25 crore project to be
Eminent agricultural scientist, Dr M. S. Swaminathan, has said the economic crisis facing the country was because of the fact that its farm sector was in doldrums. Replying to a question about the
The Government proposes to bring forward a comprehensive seed policy and overhaul the existing Seeds Act, 1966. All genetically-engineered crops/varieties would be tested to determine their agronomic
The Delhi government is forced to dump nearly 4,000 tonne wheat, supplied to it under the targeted public distribution scheme, in the Food Corporation of India godowns every month as the city's poor
Agriculturalists and experts gathered at a seminar on ' Third National Seed Seminar' in Nepal have pointed out that present food production can be increased by 15 to 20 per cent by using hybrid seed
Mixing exotic plants and animals with native species doesn't always lead to a happy ending, especially in the tropical paradise of Kauai island, Hawaii. Biocontrol- the introduction of real
RiceTec, one of the biggest US food companies, has now been given the brand name Basmati by US patent office. In September 1997, the patent office had granted RiceTec the rights to sell three
Taking a serious note of starvation deaths the foodgrain glut in the country, the Supreme Court said it was the responsibility of the government to see that food reached the hungry. The Bench was
