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
More than 500 small farmers of the cotton belt of the Mand area(Punjab) sat on a dharna for about four hours in front of the office of the SDM, Nadodar near in protest against the failure of the
The disquieting disclosure that a little more than half the bt cotton cultivated illegally in Gujarat had already entered the market, had the hands of the government tied, when the Genetic
THE Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed transgenic plant types of cotton, brinjal (egg plant) and tomato and is now working on evolving similar plants of rice, chickpea
Consumer pressure will not force North and South American farmers to abandon genetically modified crops but it could blight the development of a new generation promising many medical or nutritional
The Food and Agriculture Organisation approved a framework for protecting the variety of the world's crops, seen as key to winning the war on hunger. The so-called International Convention on Plant
The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding (ISGPB) is holding a four-day diamond Jubilee Symposium on 'Hundred years of post-Mendelian genetics and plant breeding-Retrospect and prospects'
A National alliance of organisations representing Landless peasants, farm workers and small and marginal farmers today demanded a five-year ban on the sale of Genetically-modified (GM) seeds in the
Ajmer, the sprawling central district of Rajasthan with an arid to semi-arid ecology, is far from being well-endowed for intensive agriculture. Despite being dotted with lakes and ponds, the
The recurring suicide of farmers in this granary of Kerala due to crash in prices of paddy and other commercial crops have thrown up a peculiar situation wherein it was not only uneconomical to
The controversy over the planting of illicitly-manufactured genetically-modified (GM) cotton in Gujarat seems unlikely to subside in a hurry. While the Centre has issued a clear directive to the
