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,
The ministerial conference on agricultural science and technology that took place in Sacramento this week, and the recent G-8 summit in France, hardly eased the entrenched positions on agricultural
The European Union, hoping to remove the single biggest obstacle to progress in global trade talks, has agreed to change its four decade old system of generous agriculture supports. But whether the
The question is how much damage French President Jacques Chirac has managed to do to the world's current-free trade negotiations. The success of the Doha trade round hangs on progress in cutting farm
The work performance appraisal programme introduced by the Agriculture, Livestock and Samurdhi Ministry to evaluate the working performance of over 20,000 Ministry employees engaged in the
War, drought and runaway population growth will thwart efforts to halve global hunger by 2015 unless the full weight of science is brought to bear on food production, a farm research group for
Germany's Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement said he will push for the import of U.S.-developed genetically modified (GM) foodstuffs despite widespread European opposition to the products. In an
The European Parliament passed laws to force labelling of all genetically modified food in a move that could lead the EU to lift an unofficial ban on GM crops but may not be enough to halt a trade
Dr Ardhendu Kumar Dey State Minister for Agriculture visited Majuli. During his tour, he visited Garamur and Jengraimukh. Addressing a public meeting held at the Bangshi Gopal Natya Mandir, Garamur
The European Parliament adopted strict consumer protection legislation for genetically modified products, a move which should end the de facto moratorium on approval for GM food and could head off a
Cotton farming in India is far different from that in the US. Monoculture cotton is not grown on an industrial scale or season after season, as in the southern belt of the US, which is the "cotton
