Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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Agricultural development in Punjab - constraints and policy options
This study has been undertaken to assess the development patterns of agriculture sector in Punjab and the identification of the constraints operating in the agricultural sector dealing with land, labour, irrigation, credit etc.
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Drought tolerant maize launched in African countries
A drought-tolerant maize seed has been launched to boost food security in African countries. <br>
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Institutional failure and farmers' suicides in Andhra Pradesh
Small and marginal farmers are the worst hit by the problems that afflict agriculture. The macro and micro level factors together have created stress among the poor farmers forcing them to commit suicide.
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Mulkanoor guiding light of India's cooperative movement
THE first thing to note about the Mulkanoor cooperative is that it is an exception, not the rule. Given the otherwise dismal state of the cooperative movement in India, how many cooperative societies can boast of a turnover in excess of Rs 55 crore? Or have one of its members go on to become the prime minister of the country (P V Narasimha Rao, in this case)? Or not have a single defaulter on the roll of its hundreds of borrowers, with total lending in a year exceeding Rs 20 crore? Or have operations ranging from dairies to a modern rice mill.<br>
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Know your seeds
<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Notified varieties are developed and tested through multi-location trials by the All India Coordinated Crop Improvement Programme. If the varieties are found to be superior, the Central Seed Committee (CSC) releases them through notification in the official gazette<br> <font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Nucleus seeds are the pure genetic material of a notified variety produced by a breeder. These are multiplied into breeder seeds
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Bt fails in China
The developing countries' wide acceptance of genetically modified seeds owes much to China
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Monsanto at the receiving end of Bt cotton pricing policy
Monsanto losing price war with state governments
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Pricing problem
State governments have fixed Bt cotton prices at Rs 750 per 450-gramme packet. Is there a basis for this figure?
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South Asia
short of gunnybags: The shortage of gunny bags at government wheat procurement centres in several districts of Pakistan has forced farmers to sell their produce to private buyers below the support
