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,
Greenpeace activists demanded the government conduct an objective scientific assessment of the benefits of Bt Cotton, alleging that the government's
Aid or donation should normally come with no strings attached; but increasingly food aid is becoming an easy route to introduce biotechnology products in poor countries, and effectively weaken
Farmer preference for illegal genetically modified (GM) soyabean seeds will force Grupo Espirito Santo (GES), a top Paraguay agribusinesses, to stop producing conventional seed this year, a senior
Monsanto Biotech Ltd. has attributed the reported failure of the first genetically engineered BT cotton crop in some parts of Andhra Pradesh to "improper farming practices, inadequate water supply
The Bush administration's top trade official has announced that he is seeking of file a case against the European Union for its ban on genetically modified food, calling the European positin
Defence Estate Officer (DEO) Jammu and DEO Northern Command had deposited the third installment of money on account of ex-gratia payment to farmers for the damages occurred to their agricultural
A noted agricultural economist and former Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, S.S. Acharya, has called for redefining the terms
The Maharashtra government decides to continue the monopoly procurement scheme for cotton and announces compensation for the families of cotton farmers who committed
People from entire villagers will physically prevent private companies entering their land, if the Tamil Nadu Government went ahead with implementing the wasteland development programme, leaders of
