Groundnut growers keep out of market
Movement of precious groundnut came to a grinding halt on Monday when farmers failed to bring their produce to any of the 54 marketing yards in the entire Saurashtra region firing the first salvo
Movement of precious groundnut came to a grinding halt on Monday when farmers failed to bring their produce to any of the 54 marketing yards in the entire Saurashtra region firing the first salvo
Fake harvest reports in pursuit of an 8% growth pledge recall the days of the Great Leap Forward in China : a
Rattarog (Redrot) has spoiled about 20 per cent the sugarcane crop in Punjab. The worst effect of this has been seen on the COJ-64 variety of the crop, covering almost 50 per cent the area presently
Agriculture scientists attending the first international Agronomy Congress here today warned that rapid soil erosion and declining crop yields could lead to foodgrain shortages in the region.They
The Janata Dal Government set up expert panel to monitor genetic farming, which is being opposed by one of the Karnataka's militant farmers association.The state Governemnt also said that it would
Three NGOs today demanded that the Central Government make public all the details relating to Monsanto's trials involving genetically engineered seeds in various states, including Andhra Pradesh and
Even as Karnataka Agriculture Minister C. Byre Gowda declared yesterday that trials of the terminator gene technology would not be allowed in the state, Monsanto, the MNC accused of conducting these
The controversy over the "terminator" gene came to the fore with the multinational group subsidiary, Monsanto India, claiming that it had never used the gene protection technology or the terminator
What kind of development should be encouraged? Should there be an emphasis on the mechanisation of agriculture or the return to pastoral farming? These are the some issues which are likely to be
It took less than 30 minutes on Saturday for the militant Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha to torch a farm at Malladaguda village, 420km from Bangalore, where US-based biotechnology giant Monsanto has
Members of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) destroyed the Bollgard Cotton Crop on half an acre of land in the Maledagudda village of Raichur district protesing against the US gaint
The Andhra Pradesh state assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to take measures to prevent Monsanto India from using the controversial 'terminator gene' technology.
Three improved varieties of field crops - PBR-97 of Raya, PBW-396 of bread wheat and LC-2023 of the linseed - evolved by the Punjab Agricultural University have been approved for cultivation in
The U.S. company Monsanto's bid to acquire Delta and Pine Land, the firm which is part owner of the Terminator genes technology, is increasingly becoming an albatross round its neck. The very real
Two years after the World Food Summit, a paper by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that progress to date has been insufficient to meet the Summit's main target of halving the
Monsanto sid on Saturday said that 'a non-existent so called terminator gene' was not involved in the field trials being carried out by it in India for pest-tolerant "bollgard" (Bt) Cotton. Monsanto
The researchers in the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) have proved that the yield of the rice crop during the Thaladi season in the Cauvery delta
Opposition to genetically modified food is growing in the UK and Germany, according to a surveys carried out for Monsanto, the US life sciences group that has been at the forefront of introducing GM
Notwithstanding a bumper crop this season, the world famous Kashmir saffron is losing its flavour because of a stiff competition from "inferior" Iranian produce, fake variety and official
Even as Monsanto Enterprises, the multinational food and bio-tech giant tried to clarify that it was in no way involved with 'Terminator Gene', The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) threatened to