- Novel protest by farmers
It is different sort of campaign im Khairanwali village of the Darba Kalan assembly segment in Sirsa parliamentary constituency. Farmers of at least 40 villagers in groups of 12 each go about in
It is different sort of campaign im Khairanwali village of the Darba Kalan assembly segment in Sirsa parliamentary constituency. Farmers of at least 40 villagers in groups of 12 each go about in
The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) and the Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development (STED) Project here have joined hands to take pepper to new heights - to the rooftops of
The European Commission backed proposals to keep agricultural support prices largely unchanged and to implement a slight reduction in the Common Agricultural Policy budget for 1998-99 to
Representatives of top cocoa and coffee naitons will gather in Calcutta on Monday to discuss greater and safer use of jute bags in packaging. The two-day seminar, being organisedby the Internationsl
Work at Sri Lanka's tea industry came to grinding halt yesterday as over half-a -million plantation workers struck work demanding better wages. Negotiations between the trade unions representing the
Under various celing laws 3.04 million hectares of land in the country has been declared surplus so far. Out of this 2.35 million hectares has been distributed to 5.5 million beneficiaries, according
Rating agencies are gearing up for the fresh influx of business that they are likely to reveive from plantation companies once Sebi makes it mandatory for them to have their collective scheme s
Major Plantation Companies are planning to fight against the finance ministry's crackdown on such firms. Irked by the intense official scrutiny, plantation firms are banding together to ask for a
The All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) has decided to approach the Government to lobby with the United States authorities for cancelling the patent on
Nearly 110 cotton farmers have reportedly committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh so far on account of crop failure leading to indebtedness.Ironically, many of the farmers consumed the same pesticide
The Union agriculture minstry has suffered a major setback in its effort to set up its regional agriculture-cum-animal husbandry research centre of India Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) in the
The Central Study team on Wednesday toured nine, villages of Multai tehsil of Betul district affected by hailstorm and excessive rains and assessed the loss to crops there.The study team assessed the
Reeling under a pest attack, crop failure and heavy debts, 44 farmers commit suicide.
Making provision for leasing instead of outright purchase of lands for corporate farming, in selected centres and encouraging research and development in both private and public sectors to develop
The US and Latin American banana producers told the European Union that initial proposals for changing its banana import regime to comply with a World Trade Organisation ruling were not
Indian Cotton Mills' Federation (ICMF) has proposed a joint committee to examine the high incidence of contamination in cotton. The industry considers Indian cotton to be one of the most
Israel has signed a co-operation agreement with India for conducting general and applied agricultural research at New Delhi's Pusa Agriculture Research
The Bihar Government, as part of of its programme to bring 50,000 hectares of land under coconut, had already increased the area under this crop to 16,590
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has extended a concessional loan of US Dollar 50 million to the Nepalese Government for its effort to reform the stagnant agricultural
Work on three year collaborative agricultural research project which has been taken up by the Union Government with assistance from Australia for planning sustinable soil management on semi arid