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 another first of sorts, the Kancheepuram district administration of Tamil Nadu has launched a move to develop poromboke lands for green fodder with participation of women self-help groups (SHGs).
Tea Smallholders Chairman Chandra Wijenaike says that the contributory factor for the decline in 2002/2003 production was the extremely dry weather in the Balangoda and Pasgoda regions (Sri Lanka).
The Uttar Pradesh State Council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has decided to orgnaise a 'Kisan panchayat' in the state. The council, which met chalked out a strategy to mobilise people
GM crops could help small farmers in the developing world, says the Nuffield Council for Bioethics - an independent group of scientists, lawyers, philosophers and other academics. New crops can cut
Long before organic became fashionable, one little corner of Punjab was doing the right thing. Not because they anticipated the world back-to-basics boom in growing and eating naturally, but simply
If you've ever wondered why, despite the advances in irrigation tech, the country and its farmers wait so anxiously for the monsoons, here's the answer: Sixty per cent of India's crops comes from
The Delhi government's relief distribution for drought has run into rough
Agro Tech Foods Ltd (AFTL), a subsidiary of global food major ConAgra, will be focusing on its recently introduced Sundrop Heart edible oil this year to increase its share from the existing 5 per
French officials have been giving tantalising signals recently of being ready to adopt a more flexible attitude towards proposals for reform of the Common Agriculural Policy (CAP) ahead of the reform
Tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh may have lost more than Rs 100 crore due to the delayed auction process and consequent damage to the crop at the farm level due to the extreme temperatures this
