Globally 30 percent of the food produced never reaches to a human stomach (FAO, 2021). Tackling food loss and waste benefits the climate, food security, and sustainability of agri-food systems. India suffers
American farmers will plant more genetically engineered crops this year, including one-third of the corn crop, shrugging off international resistance to biotech food. The farmers are expected to grow
Farmers in North India - Punjab, Haryana and northern Rajasthan - who have pinned all their hopes on the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Ltd's (Mahyco) Bt cotton hybrids to tackle the American
Any new technology always comes in with risks that are inevitable with something that hasn't been tested enough for its safety. This is also the case with the Bt cotton which the government has now
Members of the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hubli, have welcomed the decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of India (GEAC) to release three transgenic cotton hybrids,
The Rajasthan Government will soon take a favourable decision for paying compensation to farmers in the border districts whose land has been taken away for fencing, movement of tanks, deployment of
The cotton specialist of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Dr. BPS Lather, has warned the cotton growers of Northern India, particularly Hissar, Fatehabad, Sirsa and Bhiwani
Revenue Minister for Madhya Pradesh state Vir Singh Raghuvanshi said on Wednesday that laws pertaining to distribution of grazing land to Scheduled Caste and land less farmers would be simplified and
The European Commission's proposals to integrate farmers in European union candidate countries into the Common Agricultural Policy are unfair and will do little to boost farm incomes or help rural
The Centre is all set to introduce the concept of contract farming for cotton from the current financial year. To begin with, it would be tried out on an experimental basis in two states Andhra
The champagne corks must be popping in the headquarters of Monsanto after a major breakthrough when India gave the go-ahead to the use of genetically modified cotton. After the steadfast hostility in
