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,
After tomatoes, potatoes, chillies, basmati rice and groundnut, Pepsi Foods Ltd. (PFL) is now making a foray into large-scale contract farming of seaweeds. The location: 10 km of seas front on the
The West Bengal government has ordered an assessment of the situation in Purulia, West Midnapore and Bankura where inadequate rainfall has hit sowing of paddy for the Aman crop.
The research work at Bangladesh's lone mango research station in Chapai-Nawabganj district is being hindered due to multifarious problems including acute shortage of scientists and laboratory
Thousands of tons of U.S. emergency food aid destined for Zimbabwe has been diverted to other countries, and a new shipload may be diverte within days because the donations include genetically
Gujarat agriculture minister Purshottam Rupala said that almost 40 per cent of the kharif crop has been destroyed for the want of rains, and the state government was trying its best to save the
The US is set to unveil its global agricultural policy at Geneva, which would have far reaching effects on India. The US policy visualises WTO members scrapping all exports subsidies at the end of
Drought-hit conditions have affected all the kharif crops in Uttar Pradesh, particularly paddy, the mainstay of the state and its economy. The production of vegetables has also been hit and prices
The Forward Bloc said they would accept the McKinsey proposals on farm policy only if it improves the West Bengal's agricultural prospects. The Forward Bloc is not prepared to accept fully the
Fairly convinced with the potential of organic farming, the Haryana government is going to introduce the same as an income generation activity across its 10 districts. To be undertaken under the
The delay in monsoon has resulted in extensive damage to standing crops in various villages of Yamunanagar district. In this primarily sugarcane growing area about 20 per cent of the standing crop
