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,
Crop disease researchers in Brazil have found several commercial soybean strains resistant to the possibly devastating Asian soy rust disease that appeared across the farm belt last season. The
Every block of Madhya Pradesh will have at least three organic farming villages and the farmers of these villages would encourage their counterparts in adjoining villages to follow suit. This was
The Project Director of the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Dr. B Mishra has won the Sanadhira Rice Research Award for his contributions to the development of salinity tolerance in rice in the
Union Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh today said that the Centre had released 9.25 lakh tonnes of foodgrains including two lakh tonnes of rice to Karnataka under food for work programme and would
Approval of a new two-gene genetically modified (GM) cotton variety is expected to produce a vast expansion of the GM crop in Australia, regulators and industry officials said on Wednesday. The
Approval of a new two-gene genetically modified (GM) cotton variety was expected to produce a vast expansion of the GM crop in Australia, regulators and industry officials said. The Office of the
China may announce an extension of its interim rules for importing genetically modified soybeans before President Jiang Zemin and U.S. President George W. Bush meet next month, a senior U.S. official
Structural control of river waters in Bangladesh's upstream region hampers productitvity of agricultural land, eventually exacerbating desertification in the country's western region, Prime Minister
In the Bangladesh's highly confrontional political scenario Parliament remains dysfunctional and the law enforcing agencies act as pawn in the hands of clear absence of rule of law. Against the
The Pradesh Congress committee came down heavily on the Andhra Pradesh state government for what it called the "betrayal" of the Nagarjunasagar ayacut farmers who were first assured of waters for the
