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,
A government deadline for Zimbabwe's white farmers to give up their land passed without incident, and it remained uncertain if the police would try to forcibly evict them. Local police officials said
Bowing to protests by farmers, the sale of Bt cotton seeds has been banned in Karnataka temporarily. Agriculture Minister Kaujalgi today issued the order at a massive rally of farmers organized in
To create a better environment and also to prevent from the harmful effects of chemical and hazardous pesticides, Uttar Pradesh Government has started a project in which the farmers are trained to
The shortage of water has badly affected paddy and cotton crops in five talukas of Dadu district(Pakistan) and rendered over 200,000 acres of land uncultivated, revealed a survey conducted by this
The purchase of this Yala seasons paddy in the Polonnaruwa district (Sri Lanka) will be adversely affected due to large stocks purchased earlier by the co-operative Societies and private mill owners
Protectionist polices and subsidising of cotton farming in developed countries are causing massive losses to developing countries, said textiles secretary SB Mohapatra. Developing countries are also
Zambia has rejected a shipment of genetically modified maize that forms part of an international emergency relief effort to ease the country's severe food shortages.About 1.75m of Zambia's people
Relatively small in size to justify its steep price and even though its collection and sale has been outlawed, the demand for mushrooms has been mushrooming all over Goa. Mushrooms should not be
Canada will start restricting imports of U.S. potatoes starting on Wednesday to prevent a new virus from entering the country, a federal official said this week. The series of measures aimed at
The targets of the World Food Summit 1996 are as elusive as ever six years later, a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report warns. "The target of the Summit to halve the number of hungry
