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,
Next September the 1996 farm bill the Freedom to Farm Act expires. It has been a failure in almost every respect. It promised to reform a system of federal farm subsidies that had grown equitable
Agriculture is under rapid transformation the world over even as it is growing increasingly technology intensive, said the Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Ajit Singh, at the 38th Annual Session
The Society for Preservation of Environment and Quality of Life (SPEQL), which has pioneered the development of vermiculture here from the biomass of municipal solid waste, is selling vermin compost,
India has established a worked record of 80 quintal per hectare in yield of maize in kharif season. Demonstration in selected areas of Lucknow, Barabanki and Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh by technology
The German government will take around a year to decide whether to allow commercial cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Ministry
The Haryana Government has so far delivered 4.04 lakh tonnes of rice to the Food Corporation of India for the Central pool. An official spokesman disclosed that out of this, more than 1.6 lakh tonnes
Voluntary organisation Bharatiya Cattle Resource Development Foundation (BCRDF), with its mission of 'Tractors for All' seems all set to revolutionise the look of rural India. BCRDF has designed a
The West Bengal government has welcomed private sector initiatives to strengthen the agricultural infrastructure in the state with emphasis on expansion of storage capacities for agricultural
The Andhra Pradesh government seems to be setting the stage for the back-door entry of the controversial Bolguard cotton seeds. Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company the Mahyco is being allowed to conduct
In one of its rare cases involving new life forms, the US Supreme Court decided that plants developed by human intervention can get broad patent protection under federal patent
