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,
Five years ago, when the US Congress last passed a major bill to reform its farm policy, it pledged to wean farmers from two generations of government subsidies and reintroduce market pressures in
A proposed patent by agro giant Monsanto on genetic blueprints of high yield soybeans has caused alarm in China, where the crop has been grown for thousands of years. The argument over the patent
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Union Government, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, the Committee and the Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh Governments on a petition by Navbharat
Having failed to complete the identification of persons below the poverty line in the city of Delhi in last one year, the city government is now planning to move the Supreme Court to seek more time
Twenty thousand stray dogs will be sterilised every year in order to control rabies in the Capital. This was decided at a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Health and Development Minister
The Gujarat Agriculture University (GAU) has developed a pigeon pea hybrid, for the first time in the world that yields 30 per cent higher production.
Nath seeds Ltd. has concluded a strategic alliance with leading Chinese biotechnology major Biocentury Transgene Company Ltd. to bring to India transgenic technology in cotton crop on an exclusive
Year 2001 is coming to an end with some god news on the economic front. According to recent official estimate the agricultural and allied sectors are set to deliver 6.9 per cent growth in output in
The tribal farmers of south Rajasthan, who had occupied forest land more than 20 years ago, have demanded regularisation of the pieces of land spread in Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and Sirohi
This year end surprise was that the agricultural sector is once again coming to the rescue of the economy this year. Farm production is projected to grow in 2001-02 by a remarkable 6.9 per cent,
