India moots grain banks for poor
India is studying a proposal to set-up national level grain banks to eliminate poverty induced hunger by 2007, the 60th anniversary of country's independence.
India is studying a proposal to set-up national level grain banks to eliminate poverty induced hunger by 2007, the 60th anniversary of country's independence.
India should adopt a cautious approach towards biotechnology and genetically modified foods by adopting a strategy which gives more emphasis on investment in the field of irrigation and flood
To foreign companies operating in India, the cow is a sacred cow. But India actually is a major producer and consumer of leather, and not all of it comes from goat, sheep and buffalo. The country,
Less than one per cent of pesticides applied to crops reach the target pest while 99 per cent of these remain in the environment and cause pollution. The information was given by Dr R.S. Paroda,
Could 'cattle plague' make a comeback, sneaking in from neighbouring lands like Pakistan and Afghanistan? Keeping vigil upon this very-different cross-border problem is a group of scientists
"Will the world continue to watch the hungry people of the world die silently?" said Jacques Diouf, Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a news conference prior to
When it came time to harvest new varieties of sweet potato in an agriculture project in Aileu, an East Timor mountain town, the response was overwhelming - the farmers made off with most of the
The Australian Government has ordered a study to examine if genetically modified crops can be effectively separated from those grown naturally after a fiasco in which corn destined for animal feed
The banana is to have its entire sequence of genes decoded in a bid to develop new strains more resistant to diseases and pests. The Global Musa Genomics Consortium (GMGC), made up of researchers
The Technology Mission on Cotton (TMC) may have taken off 18 months back, with all fanfare, wishfully to bring down the contamination levels in Indian cotton as one of the objectives. But two years
The study paper prepared by Andersen on behalf of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has stated that agricultural-biotechnology is an important R&D and business sector
The Government will set up five research centres to invent pesticides against mite disease spending Rs 40 lakhs. One such centre will be started at Kodungallur, said JSS State vice-president Rajan
The Union Government is likely to invest Rs 5 crore in the Rs 80-crore project, 'Green house cultivation of vegetables', a joint-venture between the Punjab Government and Israel-based sayag group, in
The Central Government has just postponed, for at least another year, the commercial use of Bt cotton, a genetically engineered variety that increases yields and pest-tolerance significantly. Bt
British and German agriculture ministers promised to act together to push through far-reaching reforms of European farming policy to favour more environmentally sensitive production.
Genetically-Modified (GM) foods has received support from an unexpected quarter--Dr Gurudev S. Khush, respected in the scientific community as being one of the brains behind the 'golden rice'. Even
Chhattisgarh, often dubbed the rice bowl of Madhya Pradesh has not witnessed any increase in productivity despite the introduction of high yielding crop varieties (HYVs). In fact, HYVs have been
An international consortium involving researchers from 11 developed and developing countries, including India, is to sequence the banana genome within five years. The Indian Institute of
The European Commission is caught between a rock and a hard place. Its latest proposals on compulsory labelling of genetically modified food attempt to balance consumer rights and free trade.
The International agreement recently reached at a session of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for the conservation of genetic resources for the future generation provides an occasion