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,
There is expected to be a 10 per cent increase in the acreage of transgenic crops world-wide in 2001 as more than 5 million farmers opt for GM seeds with significantly higher
It is an innovative idea that spawned a hundred other and went on to put Karnataka's farmers, particularly the innovative ones, right on top of the national map in the second annual competition for
Small and marginal farmers in West Bengal are suffering due to the impact of liberalisation and GATT. With the rise of irrigation costs and withdrawal of subsidies for inputs, they are forced either
Preliminary farm trails and experiments using micro-nutrients in paddy fields conducted in Mandya by the Regional Research Station , V C Farm, Mandya, University of Agriculture sciences, Bangalore,
The Maharashtra state agriculture department has confirmed that the Bt cotton which was sold and grown in several places of Gujarat has also been sold to farmers in some districts of Maharashtra by
A senior U.S. official said it was "urgent" for the European Union to find a way to end a three-year-old ban on approvals of new genetically modified crops.
Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi has in a communication to Union textile minister Kasiram Rana urged him to sanction export of one lakh cotton bales in the interests of the state's cotton
The plight of farmers in Muzaffarnagar has worsened due to the deteriorating infrastructure. The supply of canal water and electricity is irregular and unreliable. Western Uttar Pradesh, one of the
The National Horticulture Board is an apex body set up by the Government of India under the Ministry of Agriculture. The broad objectives of the board is to promote integrated development of
There seems to be no respite in sight for the beleaguered international commodities market, plagued as it is by the low price syndrome. The little hope that has been generated by the revival of trade
