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,
India and Zambia inked a trade agreement and signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in agriculture while visiting Zambian President Levy Patrick Mvanawasa extended his country's support
After five months of dithering, the genetic engineering approval committee (GEAC) housed in the environment ministry is set to revive the issue of commercialisng transgenic
In the Balh valley, a food bowl of Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, household animals have been dying in horde for the last one week. The attack of the disease is so grave on animals that it has
Both the latest Census and the NSS editions suggest that the rate of employment generation in agriculture has slowed down dramatically. Indeed, the NSS data suggest that the employment elasticity of
Plant pathologists have found that cow's urine can serve as an effective natural pesticide, the Minister of state for agriculture, Mr Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav, informed the Lok Sabha. Cow urine has
As the lorry strike entered the fifth day, it was feared that the lack of arrival of proper feeds and delay in transporation of birds to Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry may have led to the death
The Tehrik-i-Istiqlal has demanded that Pakistan government should fix price of every crop and provide maximum facilities for promoting real investment. Speaking at the provincial council's meeting
In the darkest days of the first world war British horticulturalists pioneered a new breed of fruit tree which caused a worldwide revolution. By cloning a new dwarf rootstock in 1917 they produced a
The Agriculture Policy - 2020 of Madhya Pradesh state would be declared in the coming months. The policy aims at expanding organic farming, effective implementation of Kisan Bandhu Scheme and holding
Mahyco-Monsanto(India) Ltd, the company that developed the first genetically modified Btcotton to be grown in India, claimed that its varieties increased farmers incomes by about Rs 7,000 per acre.
