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,
European Union foreign ministers last night agreed to postpone the controversial issue of negotiating farm subsidies with the 10 candidate countries, which hope to conclude enlargement negotiations
An Australian state government in a key canola-producing region said it plans to introduce legislation which rules out the establishment of exclusion zones for genetically modified (GM) crops. A
Genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology, we are told, has great potential to influence and benefit agriculture including livestock, forestry and fisheries. If true, it must seem to
The agro division of Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (CPL) has launched a bio-fertiliser-cum-bio-fungicide under the brand name Kalisena. The new fertiliser-cum-bio-fungicide from the CPL stable is
The recent memorandum of undertaking that the West Bangal State Food Processing and Horticulture Development Corporation (WBSFPHDC) has signed recently in a joint venture agreement with Bejo Sheetal
The farm ministry's pet project for forecasting crop production through satellite studies and land-based observations, FASAL, is unlikely to take off for another year although the government had put
Indian Council or Agricultural Research (ICAR) will be able to release some superior varieties of Bt varietal cotton and Bt hybrid cotton developed by its own scientists, within a period of three
A decade after it began its spasmodic transition to capitalism, the Russian government is moving to dismantle one of the lasting legacies of the Stalinist era: The collectivisation of the country's
The controversy over the Greenpeace report on the environmental impact of transgenic Bt-cotton in China took a new turn with some officials of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
The Sustainable Agriculture Action Group (SAAG), Pakistan an umbrella organization of 15 civil society bodies working for the rights of farmers , has expressed concerns over the introduction of
