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,
Australia and Brazil are planning to challenge the European Union's subsidies for sugar farmers at the World Trade Organisation in a case that will strike at the foundations of Europe's common
It was the fertilizer importers and not the farmers who benefited from the Urea subsidy said Sri-Lankan Minister of Agriculture and Livestock S.B. Dissanayake at a workshop on " organic farming and
Zimbabwe charged five white farmers yesterday and arrested up to 10 others for defying government orders to vacate land picked for redistribution to landless black people. Zimbabwe President Robert
The World's centres of crop genetic diversity are the part of biodiversity that feeds people. The gene banks within those centres are critical for global food security. Now, the Meso-American centre
Maharashtra cabinet gave green signal for a proposal to energise one lakh agricultural pumps across the state during 2002-03. The proposal to be implemented by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board
A one day session on "Food security and poison free farming" was held at Palampur in which farmers, development workers, farm scientists from various agencies from Kangra, Chamba, Mandi, Bilaspur and
Imagine enjoying your favourite fruit even after the season is over - that too without having them cold stored or treat with preservatives. Thought one may dismiss it as wishful thinking, but
President Robert Mugabe ordered white farmers defying eviction orders to pack up and leave Zimbabwe, but said loyal farmers willing to cooperate with his government would not be left completely
Swarms of European honeybees, introduced in the Himalayan environment in recent decades, are encroaching upon the territories of the indigenous honeybees, forcing the latter to disappear or go
Power subsidies to agriculture tower over the expenditure by most states on health, irrigation and rural development schemes. In Madhya Pradesh, power subsidies account for 70 per cent of the state's
