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,
For the first time, the state will have an agricultural research centre in the private sector. Called the 'Gandhiji Institute of Sustainable Development', it is the brainchild of P.J. Joseph, a
China's ministry of agriculture has called for an urgent fight against a locust plague with the infested areas covering 10 per cent larger than that of last year, a Xinhua report said
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria warned that state subsidies to farmers in the developed world were undermining food security in Africa. Southern Africa is suffering from severe food shortages.
As the United States and Europe fight over the future of genetically modified foods, poor countries needing donations of corn and soybeans are increasingly finding themselves in the backwash of the
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the department of environment and forests has approved the marketing of Mahyco/Monsanto BT cotton seeds earlier this year. Doubts and
India has signed the International Treaty on Plan Genetic Resources for food and Agriculture. The treaty was signed by Mr Ajit Singh at the World Food Summit in Rome yesterday, paving the way for
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday called upon farmer to achieve high yield with low investment and referred to farmers in China in this
An influential European Parliament committee voted to toughen proposed rules on the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. The vote marks the crucial first stage through the European union's
The Union Cabinet's recent decision to join the international Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has drawn flak from environmentalists for repealing farmers' rights granted by
The Union Cabinet's decision on May 31 to join the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is incompatible with the recently enacted Plant Variety Protection (PVP)
