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,
Australia gave the long-awaited clearance to the use of genetically modified (GM) canola, paving the way for the planting of the country's first GM food crop after an eight-week period of public
A two-day national conference on agriculture, which is scheduled to begin here tomorrow, will seek to finalise a strategy for the ensuing kharif season.The conference will be held amid reports that
The Iraq war has pushed up urea prices in the international markets, West Asia being a big source of urea
The Uttaranchal government has privatised six horticulture gardens and leased out lands in 71 other gardens to private firms for setting up research units. Ayurvedic pharmaceutical firms, like Dabur,
The goal of the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) to halve the number of chronically undernourished prople by 2015 is unlikely to be met, according to the latest projections made by the United Nations
In 1908, the British government had banned construction on agriculture land in Delhi. But since then over two lakh houses in 360 villages have come up on such lands, many of which were subsequently
West Bengal department officials have detected fogery in paddy procurement by the CPI-M run pnachayat samiti in Mohanpur block, Midnapore West. A farmer, Uma, Kanto Raul, lodged a complaint with
It is a fat-burner, forex earner and nutrition provider. After a decade of research TERI has developed a new variety of rapeseed mustard which, it claims is more nutritious and produces oil that
The crucial two-day national conference on agriculture to finalise the strategy for kharif (summer crop season) 2003 will begin in Delhi in the backdrop of the latest reports indicating that the area
In its ongoing agriculture diversification programme, the Punjab Government on Wednesday announced its foray into contract farming of basmati rice in collaboration with Rallis India Ltd, ICICI Bank
