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Farmers of Gwalior kill at least 20 rodents every night, to no avail, their crop is destroyed.
Farmers of Gwalior kill at least 20 rodents every night, to no avail, their crop is destroyed.
Indian scientists have developed a new short-duration rice variety, that matures in just two months, specifically for flood-prone areas. If shown in May, the new 'PNR 551' variety can be harvested
Less than one year after the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched TeleFood, a global public awareness television event that raised more than $2 million to help small farmers, 136 small
Poor countries like Nepal have given more to the developed countries than getting benefit from their own genetic resources, according to Secretary for Agriculture Surya Nath Upadhayay. He was
The US chemical giant, Monsanto Co., has entered into its second bio-technology venture in Australian agriculture, signing a canola breeding agreement with the Victorian State Government.This follows
Mr B N Sharma, General Manger of Allahabad Bank, today launched a green card at its Bihta branch in Ambala district. The green card will help farmers owning five acres or more in getting timely
The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to allow private sector participation in agriculture for the first time by accepting the bid of Reliance Agrotech Pvt Ltd to invest in the mechanised
farmers : Thousands of farmers from all over the country descended on the Capital today to press their demand for India's withdrawal from the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The rally organised by
After a summer of seemingly uninterrupted rain, Finnish farmers have enjoyed a week of dry weather to survey the extent of damage to their crops.Farming has never been easy in Finland, a third of
The government's hopes of a bumper kharif crop initiating an economic upswing have been washed away by the serious floods in UP , Bihar and the North-east. Recent projections are that the kharif
Jute growers in the country are all set to harvest a rich bonanze this season after having burnt their fingers producing two bumper crops in a row.
According to Britain's farming community, a far worse disaster than BSE is about to strike. Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is on the rampage again, threatening the country's 120,000 cattle herds and
Environmental activists from Greenpeace dumped two tonnes of genetically modified maize at Novartis AG's Basle headquarters and demanded the company pull gene-altered seeds from the market.But
A deadly disease, which has afflicted paddy, including basmati, in certain blocks of the border districts of Amritsar and Gurdaspur in Punjab, has created panic among farmers and concerns among
Recently, the Tea Research Institute of the United Planters' Association of Southern India(Upasi) has developed a computerised model to forecast 'blister blight' infection in tea leaves, reports PTI
Microbiologists at Cornell University have found a way to virtually rid cattle of harmful strains of E.Coli bacteria, including the bacteria that have caused scores of deaths and sickened thousands
Greenpeace cut down about two tonnes of Novartis transgenic maize in two EU-countries to highlight the risks posed by the maize. Greenpeace demands an immediate sepration of the conventional and
Scientists meeting in Cardiff heard of a new environmental hazard from genetic engineering. Experiments at the Institiute of Terrestrial Ecology's Furzebrook research station suggest that virus
Scientists of Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry have claimed success in controling the premature leaf fall disease afflicting apple trees.
There is no terminator gene, it is only a concept, Monsanto India country director, Mr Terry Bunn said at a hastily convened press conference to scotch rumours about the $7.5 billion MNC's