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,
Dean Free dips 20000 Australian dollars ($12000) deeper into debt each month that his dairy farm in Victoria state goes without rain. His net worth has halved during the past year as drought cut milk
The Madhya Pradesh State Cabinet took several significant decisions including the allotment of agricultural ravine land and handing over the supply of supplementary nutrition to women self help
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has declared Pakistan
The total area under organic farming in the country is a meagre 45,000 hectares (ha) compared to 24 million ha under organic management in Germany, followed by Australia at 20.5 million ha, Argentina
The Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to introduce a crop insurance scheme this year for the benefit of farmers, the Agriculture Minister, Mr Abdul Aziz Zargar, said. The insurance scheme
The Indian government's genetic engineering approval committee (GEAC) is likely to meet soon to take a decision on whether to approve the cultivation of Bt cotton seeds for the coming kharif (summer)
Even when finance minister Jaswant Singh recognised it as one of the five national priorities, agriculture still continues to be a neglected sector. What is more, even the FM failed to take a
A simple cost-effective technology to substantially increase the shelf life of fruits and vegetables has been jointly developed by Prof P. Reddanna of the University of Hyderabad and Prof Y. Narayana
Finally, there is some good news for the die-hard ecologists. Threats from the international paper industry on the world timber population may soon wane as jute is likely to replace wood pulp for
Corporate farming is aimed at modernizing the sector and attracting capital rather than allowing the profit-driven corporations to take it over. Afaq Tiwana, the brain behind the idea and an adviser
