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 Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday set aside the Central Government orders imposing 40 per cent penalty on tobacco growers who raised the crop during crop
Both houses of the Maharashtra legislature were adjourned for the day on Saturday amidst noisy scenes on the issue of the state government's move to discontinue the cotton monopoly procurement scheme
Five months ago, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Union Environment Ministry told the Gujarat government to destroy cotton on 10,898 acres of its land as the farmers had used
Karnataka will soon come out with guidelines to commercially raise the Bt cotton crop in the State, Agriculture Minister T B Jayachandra said at the Legislative Council on Wednesday. The
Opposition to the Government's decision to allow commercialisation of Bt cotton has begun with the Communist Party of India demanding that the approval be withheld till an informed public debate on
The five year export-import policy (2002-07) announced touches millions of people who could not have been bothered about such government pronouncements in the past. It seeks to enable Indian farmers,
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has suspended accepting 'levy rice' from the mills throwing the foodgrains marketing operations in Haryana out-of-gear. According to senior regional manager of the
the environment ministry's clearance for Bt cotton should hopefully be precursor to an enlightened government policy on genetically modified (GM) crops and food. The basic elements of such a policy
Next week, the journal Science will publish the full genetic code of rice, the first crop plant the genome of which has been
The National Workers' Party (NWP) at an agricultural conference held at the Basant Hall squarely held Punjab responsible for the theft of water and rejected the proposed presidential referendum as
