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,
University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, has achieved a breakthrough by developing a new variety of BT cotton through transfer of a bollworm-resistant BT gene into hybrid variety of
The agriculture department and agricultural universities in Karnataka will monitor the commercial production of BT cotton, which is being taken up on 16,836 acres in 12 districts, Agriculture Minster
South Korea was expected to end its slaughter of thousands of animals Thursday in areas blighted by foot-and-mouth diseases, and European governments urged soccer fans to avoid bringing the disease
Widespread cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe could impose extra costs on conventional farmers and have far-reaching consequences for farming practices, according to a draft
Agriculture minister Ajit Singh has written to the Prime Minister requesting his intervention in creating a system that can detect entry of transgenic foods into the country.
The UK government's food standards agency is considering a public education campaign about possible risks from BSE in sheep. Muslims, who make up a twentieth of the population but eat a fifth of the
No early end appears in sight to the week-long agitation of the Haryana unit of the Bhartiya Kisan Union against recovery of power overdues. With every passing day the situation is becoming grave as
Chief Conservator of Forest, Mr. R S Shukla, on Sunday evening informed that the first "green bank" of Uttar Pradesh has been opened at the Shivdaspur villager. The objective of this bank is to make
All India kisan sabha general secretary Varadarajan on Monday announced in Andhra Pradesh that the kisan sabha would launch a huge propaganda programme against the government policies and also an
Close on the heels of success in bollworm resistant Bt cotton, regulatory trials of a pest-resistant gene by Monsanto have been completed in the US and the approval is awaited. The CRY AB (2X) gene
