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,
Scientists have created Australia's first cloned and genetically modified (GM) calves, putting the major dairy exporter on the path to becoming a commercial producer of GM milk. The United States,
The Central Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade has urged the Centre to limit the WTO bound rate of 45 per cent on imports of non genetically modified soybean oil only. It has also asked for
Environmentalists are crying foul, however, industry is enthusiastic over the clearance given to cultivation of bacillus thurengesis(Bt) cotton and expect to get a major boost in the production from
With the Union government's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee having given its permission to the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company to launch three of its genetically modified cotton varieties,
Jammu and Kashmir government has formulated a comprehensive agriculture policy to boost farm production in a big way. The policy, likely to be announced during the current session of the state
In a scathing attack, volunteer groups say the government has put transgenic cotton technology out of reach of the small farmers and defied any pretense of regulation by asking the private firm,
Arif Manwa who has been planting Bt-cotton for about two years, is looking at a farm ravaged by pests. His tragedy is echoed by several of his neighbors, all of them small cotton farmers who had
India has finally conquered its pathological fear of the unknown and taken a first, firm step up the spiral staircase of the transgenic revolution. Farmers will now be permitted to sow genetically
The Go-Ahead for commercial production of Bt cotton has not gone down well with NGOs in India, and they have said it is a "stage-managed exercise". Suman Sahai of Gene Campaign pointed out that none
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has hailed the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) decision to allow use of a genetically modified cotton variety for
