India helps others to promote milk
India, which recently overtook the US to become the world's largest producer of milk, is helping other developing countries promote their dairy industries. The Indian experience of lifting milk
India, which recently overtook the US to become the world's largest producer of milk, is helping other developing countries promote their dairy industries. The Indian experience of lifting milk
The seed policy review group, set up by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, has mooted the enactment of a "Plant Variety and Farmers' Rights Protection Bill" and strengthening of
India will achieve a record foodgrain production of over 200 million tonnes this year with increases in oilseeds, onions and potatoes against a shortfall last year that lead to sharp price
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India has mooted a proposal to the agriculture ministry for setting up a national research aand information grid for horticulture trade(Nright),
Seven European supermarket chains have formed a consortium to eliminate genetically modified crops and derivatives from their own-label food products. The initiative has been led by J.Saibsbury, the
Researchers in Japan have used genetic engineering to make silk worms produce coloured silk. The scientists at the Kyoto Institute of Technology infected the silkworm larvae with a genetically
While Europe questions the merits of plant genetics, the technology is spreading rapidly on US farms. Take corn, which last year according to the National Corn Growers Association, about 16m acres
Many of Thailand's 17 million farmers-by far the largest segment of the nation's workforce-are already loaded with debt. And the future looks bleak. With major reservoirs at half their usual
The Union Food Ministry and the Food Corporation of Indian are ready with all arrangements for procuring 135 lakh tonnes of wheat in the coming rabi marketing
Four European Union countries threatened to force through full liberalisation of the union's milk market next year unless other governments agreed to its reform. The warning came as EU farm
Government scientists in US have found that the harmless natural oi that gives peaches their perfume also kills fungus and other pests in the soil and could replace methyl bromide, a widely used
Abdul Matlib, a small farmer in Central Assam's Nagaon district, committed suicide last month because after vegetable prices crashed in the market he could not retrieve his investment and repay the
Korea's pork exports to Japan have been deadlocked. In a telegram sent to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry through its embassy in Seoul, the Japanese government said that it will suspend pork
India is set to become the first ever country to develop a hybrid strain of basmati rice known as Pusa Hybrid Rice-10 (PHR-10). This variety developed by the Indian Agricultural Research
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has constituted a high-power committee to formulate an action plan for
A huge uncultivable land in the coastal belts of Bangladesh may be brought under rice cultivation using a newly invented technology. Under the new method, along with basal dose of nitrogen,
The Gujarat Government has decided to place beef on the banned list of items to prevent the slaughter of cow and cow progeny in the
As many as 50 pregnant buffaloes, gifted to Thailand by the National Dairy Development Board(NDDB) were sent to the Bangkok by a chartered flight from here, accompanied by a veterinary
Scientists and representatives from various Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) around the globe today demanded a ban on the Multinational Seed Company, Monsanto, for its genetically engineered food
The Indian Agricultural Research Institute(IARI) here has successfully developed the country's first hybrid basmati rice that promises to push up substantially the production of this foreign exchange