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,
Alarmed by media reports that unscrupulous seed manufacturers and traders were wooing gullible farmers by promising supply of bullworm resistant Bt cotton, the Andhra Pradesh state government will
South Korea confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs and said it had discovered a suspected infection of a cow, prompting plans for an immediate cull of more than 10000 animals.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe declared a 'state of disaster' as worsening food shortages threatened starvation in many parts of the country. As a result of the prevalent drought, a state of
Under the centrally sponsored scheme of desert development Programme(DDP), an amount of Rs 49.36 crore has been released by teh centre to J&K state since 1995-96 till 31st December, 2001. The scheme
Public resistance to genetically modified food in the UK continues despite the increasing threat of a trade war between the EU and US over the issue of labelling, according to an opinion poll. The
A hypnotist was the featured guest at the soil conservation district's annual meeting a few weeks ago, a fitting diversion for a place where it has not rained for nearly a year and the land seems to
APPACHI Cotton Company, a cotton ginning and trading house in Pollachi near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, has unveiled a working model of contract farming for cotton. The model cotton contract farming
University of agriculture sciences, Sharwad could well be on its way to producing transgenic varieties of cotton. Trials are underway in Karnataka, according to Karnataka's agriculture minister Me T
McKinsey, the international consultant firm, submitted an interim report to the West Bengal government marking 11 sectors where agricultural business can flourish in West Bengal. The firm also said
The U.S. Senate has easily approved a six year farm bill that would increase subsidies to farmers by $31 billion, overcoming arguments that it is too costly and threatens trade relations with key
