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,
Leasing out of land to foreign companies for corporate farming would be subject to their registration in Pakistan under Companies Act 1984, which Food Minister Khair Muhammad Junejo believes can
Russia stepped into the unfamiliar world of private farming when the lower house of parliament, the duma, passed legislation burying the era of communist collectivisation and creating a free market
The issue of Bt cotton has had only two extremes - with NGOs at one end vehemently opposing it and the company (Monsanto) and its associates at the other aggressively promoting is. But Dr. Manju
A Greenpeace report reviewing the Chinese experience of genetically engineered Bt cotton (Bacillus thuringiensis cotton) has found adverse environmental impacts after just five years of commercial
Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today approved the implementation of National Agriculture Insurance Scheme, Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojna in the State with immediate effect. The scheme aims at providing
Karnataka will soon get clearance for setting up three more food technology parks, apart from the two parks already sanctioned, to boost the food processing industry. The food parks were expected to
Even as they pledged yet again to feed the 800 million who go hungry every year, the heads of state and thousands of bureaucrats and politicians at the second Food Summit in Rome this week will be
European and American farmers might fear the switching off the life-support in annual subsidies would destroy their incomes and their way of life, but New Zealand fare say the sudden removal of their
Many Russian farmer managers were banished by Stalin in the 1930s, when wealthy peasants were repressed as part of a campaign to turn agricultural lands into state-owned collective farms. Today the
Five years after the UN World Food Summit promised to halve the number of hungry people by 2015, the follow-up summit ended with no significant change in the number 800 million. This is despite the
