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,
House and Senate negotiators writing a compromise bill to boost U.S. crop subsidies by $5 billion a year may wrap up work early next week despite a tower of disagreements, aides said.
The paradox of starvation amidst plentiful foodgrain supplies does case a shadow over the food subsidy question. It is nobody's case that such subsidies per se are bad, but in as much as they fail to
The Madhya Pradesh government recently launched a programme to give foodgrain as wage to landless agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and people living below the poverty line who will make
Onion farmers from the neighbouring Nashik district (Maharashtra) have lost crores of rupees due to the ongoing indefinite strike by traders. Transations at the Nashik agricultural produces marketing
Farmers in European Union candidate countries would see their incomes rise by 30 per cent after joining the EU even if they received no direct aid payments, according to a study.
About 1.5 million hectares in India can be covered with hybrid rice during the next five years and by 2010, the country could have a major seed business in hybrid rice, provided the Union and state
After getting a detailed feed back from its sources following a petition filed by a Calcuttan, the Environment Appellate Authority has ordered a probe into allegations that poultry farms particularly
The eradication of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) from Assam constitutes one of the components of the National Project for Rinderpest Eradication. Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP)
Soy producers in Brazil's South are ignoring the country's ban on planting genetically modified (GM) crops in an effort to stay competitive, leaders in the farm industry said. A representative of
Ethical issues related to globalisation and agricultural intensification will be addressed by the Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture gathered in Rome from 18 to 20 March 2002
