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,
The UN Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) press conference will follow the second meeting of FAO's Independent Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture, set up by the
The Uttaranchal Chief Minister, N.D. Tiwari, today ordered the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology to immediately conduct a survey of the magnitude of threat to the coming mango crop in
About 40 piglets have died of foot and mouth disease(FMD) in the local Government Pig Farm in Haryana during the past few days. According to the farm sources, all piglets were less than eight weeks
If GM technology is part of the larger question of environmental integrity, then we must address the entire question and not with the ambivalence we now show. Several decades form now, the country
The national agri-enterpreneurial scheme to raise a new breed of agri-consultants in rural areas has received a good response, with 7,293 applicants form all over the country. The initiative,
Traditional knowledge base and agricultural practices in the Central Himalayan region and the impact of changing legislation on indigenous hill customs will be among the subjects to be discussed at a
Japanese households threw away or failed to consume some 6 percent of the food they purchased in fiscal 2001, down 1.7 percentage points from a year earlier, according to an agriculture ministry
Attitudes hold the key to the survival of the fittest. A group of farmers in Kerala's northernmost Kasargod district are not just propagating innovative farming methods to tide over the crisis
Bihar is still way off its target for wheat and rice. The slow rate of procurement has meant that smaller farmers have been forced into distress sales to middlemen. Bursting at the seams, FCI can no
The attempt to push commercialisation of Bt cotton before trials were completed and before approvals came from the regulatory authority, was questioned in New Delhi by NGO scientists, Suman Sahai and
