Payment crisis looms large
Official denials notwithstanding, a serious payment crisis is threatening to upset the ongoing wheat procurement operations in Punjab. Although the state government and official procurement agencies
Official denials notwithstanding, a serious payment crisis is threatening to upset the ongoing wheat procurement operations in Punjab. Although the state government and official procurement agencies
While the entire state (West Bengal) is under a dry spell, the state agriculture department has warned that a nor'wester at this time will heavily damage the boro crop in the districts. Officials of
Rubber producers are meeting in Kuala Lumpur this week in the latest attempt to thrash out a future for the International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro). The organisation, which includes the
Protests in Europe over genetically modified (GM) foods are being closely watched by the trend-setting US biotechnology industry, but appear to be casting few shadows over its booming potential. The
Brazil's government have started destroying a test plot of genetically modified rice operated by the local unit of AgrEvo, the agrochemical joint venture between Germany's Hoechst AG and Schering AG
Greedy rats, which eat enough rice in Indonesia each year to feed 25 million people, may be about to meet their match: a trap they can enter, but not leave. The trap, similar to a lobster pot, is
The people who put organically grown food on to American tables sold a record $5 billion-worth of their produce in 1997 and could push that up to over $6 billion last year. But organic farmers still
Fears of a complete failure of the apple crop this season have gripped the apple heartland of Himachal. The crop failure is a result of drought-like conditions and poor snow last winter. The fruit
The World Trade Organisation today approved US sanctions against the European Union in a long-running Banana import dispute. EU representatives told the WTO they wouldn't oppose the $191.4 million a
The United Nations Development Programme is helping to develop India's capacity to engage in pest free safe trade in plants and plant products. A regional forum opened on Monday at the plant
With weeks remaining for the cultivation of mustard, farmers and oil producers are still awaiting an answere on how argemone came to be mixed with mustard last year, causing dropsy epidemic in Delhi
EU accepts US sanctions: The European Union ambassador to the World Trade Organisation said on Monday Vrussels would accept the imposition by the US of sanctions costing $191.4 millions in the banana
The watershed development programme in Beitul district of Madhya Pradesh launched four years ago has evoked a mixed response. While there are obvious benefits for the landed sections, the plight of
A Bhutanese agriculturist who was recently awarded doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich for his thesis work on rice blast said the disease had emerged in Bhutan because of
In a move aimed at expanding bilateral economic ties, India and Russia today signed an agreement for cooperation in agriculture and veterinary field. The agreement was signed here by Minister of
Archer Daniels Midland, one of the biggest US agribusiness and a leading corn processor, said it would not buy or trade any genetically modified (GM) corn which had not been approved by the European
Over the past two decades, colonisation of the cerrados (savannahs) of Mato Grosso has turned Rondonopolis into Brazil's largest source of soya and cotton, and big producer of rice, maize and sugar.
The Karnataka High Court has modified its earlier interim order wherein it had restrained the State Government from taking a decision regarding the reservation of sugarcane area in T. Narasipura
The first basmati rice hybrid "Pusa RH-10", developed by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute(IARI), has yielded 34 per cent more than the most popular rice variety during field trials, IARI
Eighty years after they started producing the world famous big juicy oranges, the Mizo orange cultivators in the Jampui hills are now beset with a problem that may eventually abolish all the orange