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,
In the backdrop of two consecutive drought years and with elections in the Karnataka State at striking distance, Chief Minister S M Krishna in his budget proposals for 2003-04 announced a slew of
If the agriculture department has its way, the purr of contented machines would soon replace the sweet sound of good old harvest songs in the Kerala State's paddy fields. In an effort to liven up the
Under the guidance of the Casino Group, about 520 tribal families (350 families in Mannankudy and 170 in Paliyakkudy, Kerala) are growing organic pepper in about 150 hectares of land. The produce is
Gene-altered crops pose a more immediate risk to the environment than to humans, says a study conducted by southern African countries where a debate has raged over the safety of biotech food aid.
Hundreds of farmers in Pakistan and their rights organisations have outrightly rejected the new World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement, terming it as inhuman facilitating unceremonious demise of
A report into the five-year, $108 million clean-up of South Australia's Maralinga lands, poisoned by British atomic tests 50 years ago, has hailed the rehabilitation of the land a success, despite
A group of Greenpeace activists who chained them selves to the pillars and walls of multinational Monsanto company's office in Banglore removed by the police after sawing of their chains. They were
A technology that increases the amount of vitamin C in plants, including grains, by increasing the amount of the enzyme that is responsible for recycling vitamin C, has been developed by biochemist
The centre has provided Rs 2.24 crore for the production of clean milk, Mr Anisur Rahman, West Bengal state minister for animal resources said. With the money sophicated gadgets, including chilling
Drought and the mite menace have brought down the yield of coconuts, leading to an increase in the price of coconuts. The price of coconuts has almost doubled during the last few days in markets
