Commission to study WTO impact set up
The Agriculture Department has set up a high-powered Commission on WTO Concerns, with the agriculture scientist, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, as chairman, to study the impact of WTO Agreement on agriculture
The Agriculture Department has set up a high-powered Commission on WTO Concerns, with the agriculture scientist, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, as chairman, to study the impact of WTO Agreement on agriculture
The Government has launched a countrywide programme titled Development and production of neem products as environment friendly pesticides to promote the use of
The Arunachal Pradesh Government has decided to decentralise the process of implementation of tea cultivation at the district level in the four districts of Tirap, Changlag, Lohit and Dibang
Twenty months after the much-awaited Bill on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights was first move in Parliament, it finally made it through the Lok Sabha, complete with
Violence between protesters and police at last month's Group of Eight summit in Genoa already has landed Silvio Berlusconi's new government in hot water. Now Mr. Berlusconi is embroiled in another
The world's population will grow by at least 2 billion over the next two decades, requiring a big increase in farm output. But each year around 1 percent of the world's irrigated farmland is
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill relating to farmers. Ironically, all the farmers' unions of the country had opposed this legislation. The Seeds and Farmers Rights Bill, which aims at
It's Operation Uttar Pradesh to save the potato growers of West Bengal. Concerned over the dipping fortunes of Bengal's potato growers, the state government has decided to tinker with seeds of a
An expert committee will be constituted by the Karnataka government to suggest measures to check the mite pest menace which has affected coconut trees, Chief Minister S M Krishna said.
The UK government's food standards agency yesterday hinted it would commission new research to establish whether organic food is safer and better for consumers than other foods, in a gesture to help
A new salt-proof tomato plant that could make fertile vast areas of poor quality land has been created by scientists in the USA. The genetically modified tomato tomato is the world's first crop that
The union government is planning to bring out a new comprehensive National food grain policy within the next six months.The salient features of the new policy will be more protection to the farmers
Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today in the legislative assembly while ruling out allowing tapping of Neera, announced that an experts' committee would be constituted to study the reasons for
An automatic solar-powered instrument which will warn farmers when to spray fungicide against leaf spot diseases of groundnut has been developed by the international Crops Research Institute for the
The Maharashtra Government has set up a working group to tackle and facilitate smooth decision-making on issues related to agriculture emerging from the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Researchers have developed the first truly salt-tolerant crop - a tomato plant that can thrive in degraded environments. Plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, and the University of
Haryana will get an aid of Rs 91 crore for launching a programme to check any outbreak of diseases among cattle and other domestic animals from the Union Government. An amount of Rs 6 crore has
If food is an important part of a balanced diet, Indians certainly aren't getting enough. While the government spends fistfuls selling grain abroad, there is less food per day in the country now for
Nine projects worth Rs. 12.75 crore have been sanctioned for eight places in Madhya Pradesh under National Cotton Technology Mission(NCTM). In addition, a sanction of Rs. one crore has been accorded
An independent scientific panel says there is a "medium probability" that a protein in genetically engineered StarLink corn is a human allergen. In a report submitted to the U.S. Environmental