Developing and maintaining a secure and equitable water future underpins prosperity and peace for all. The relationship also works in the opposite direction, as poverty and inequality, social tensions,
Faced with mounting debt, a failed crop for the second year and government indifference, cotton farmers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are resorting to suicide as a way out of
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday favoured retaining tax sops and rejected the Kelkar Committee's recommendation on taxing agricultural income. A meeting of the party's nine-member committee
Coming down heavily on the Delhi government, MCD and the NDMC for their failure to check the stray cattle menace, the Delhi High Court has directed them to initiate steps to prevent the menace that
The World Food Programme (WFP), under its emergency operations, will provide food assistance worth $23.9 million to 288,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan through its implementing partner NGOs.
China may have to buy more US soya beans for the first quarter as Brazil is facing difficulty clearing the country's rules on genetically-modified (GM) crops, traders and industry officials said on
West Bengal chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee made it clear there would be no change in the ownership pattern of farmers' land in the new agricultural policy the state government is
The Indian fertiliser industry will face serious shortage of natural gas in the next five years in spite of the recent gas finds in the country, as a result of which the gap between demand and supply
The food ministry proposes to extend the facility of getting wheat and rice at subsidised rates of Rs 2 and Rs 3 per kg, respectively, to an additional 10 million poverty-stricken families. This will
Wheat crop, threatened by abnormally hot weather in December, has improved after widespread winter rains and a drop temperatures across the key growing northern and central states, officials and
The Punjab Animal Husbandry Department is all set to revolutionise the concept of poultry farming by providing low cost, disease-resistant and genetically engineered chickens which can be kept in
