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,
The demand for food grain is increasing every day and every year there is need to produce additional around 6 million tonnes of foodgrains to meet the requirement of an estimated population of 1,120
The Andhra Pradesh government is drafting an integrated horticulture development programme for the state with a special focus on Chittoor, Ranga Reddy, Khammam, West Godavari and Vishakhapatnam
The European Union rejected a plea by Washington to give assurances to drought-stricken southern African countries about the safety of genetically modified emergency food relief. The US State
The Geneva based World Conservation Union, a federation of 70 countries, urged southern African nations to reject genetically modified food relief from the US until sufficient scientific research had
Haryana has been sanctioned an outlay of Rs 10285 crore for the Tenth Plan which is 10.47 per cent higher than the Ninth Plan approved outlay of Rs 9310 crore. The increase is significant given the
There has been an increase in milk procurement and agricultural production in Rajasthan. This in spite of four consecutive droughts in the state. The agriculture and milk procuring departments have
First reports from Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh, one of the cotton headquarters of India, endowed with fertile black cotton soil, speak of a 100 per cent failure of the Bt cotton crop. Farmers
The recent spells of rain is unlikely to neutralise the damage caused to crops by the prolonged dry spell as the current drought situation was the worst in more than a century, Director General of
With agricultural activities coming to a standstill in the State, Tamil Nadu's cattle wealth fodder for slaughter houses in Kerala. Several drought conditions have forced farmers to sell off their
Scientists at the Kerala Agriculture University's Cashew Research Station, Madakkathara, have developed an organic package of technologies for cultivating cashew. The group of scientists led by Dr.
