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 a long time the wheat fields of northern India have been infected by Phalaris minor, commonly known as gulli-danda or mandoosi, wild oat and broad leaf weeds, which lowered wheat yields by 30 to
In about 75 villagers in Medak district, Karnataka, there are at least 1,500 farmers, most of them Dalits, who have their own see banks with enough seeds to cultivate more than 20,000 acres. They
The only ones who left the UN World Food Summit with their plates full were the Americans, who dominate the biotech industry. The US delegation successfully sold the idea that the solution to global
The Centre approved the National Seeds Policy 2002, paving the way for planned development of seeds sector. The move is aimed at hiking the percentage of India's share in global seed trade to at
The rich countries of the world spend close to a billion dollars a day, subsidising their farmers. Yet they are unwilling to fork our less than 10 per cent of this sum, in order to reduce by half the
The Madhya Pradesh Corporatives Minister Dr Govind Singh has said that to give advantage to agriculture seed production and to minimise the shortage of seeds, Farmers Seed Cooperatives Committees
The US issued its clearest warning yet that it may take legal action in the World Trade Organisation against the European Union for the EU's refusal to approve new genetically modified crops.
The president of Sindh Abadgar Board, Abdul Majeed Nizamani, (Pakistan) has termed the national budget an enemy of agriculture and said that no relief was offered to the farmers of Sindh though they
A Gujramwala district (Pakistan) agricultural advisory committee will lend Rs34 million to farmers for paddy crop by June 30. It was announced at a meeting presided over by district coordination
Advances in agricultural biotechnology have created opportunities for efficient crop improvement. But this process also requires caution to prevent unforeseen problems associated with the adopting of
