Indigenously developed GM food likely in 5 yrs : Report
India will have indigenously developed genetically modified (GM) food with the expected releases of new transgenic crops within next five years. The 10-year biotechnology vision document of the
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More investment needed for farm research
"Governments need to invest more in public agricultural research, especially focussed on how to achieve productivity gains for small-scale farmers. Globalization can be both beneficial and harmful to
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'Agriculture to be thrust area in 10th plan'
The Centre's agricultural policy aims at making agriculture more profitable and ensuring that the production system becomes demand-driven and market-oriented, according to the Union Minister of State
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Food to subsist first, before food for work
The Central Government has passed an ordinance, making it obligatory for State governments to provide access in distribution to the starving population on the fringe. In this context, the recent
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Govt asks farmers to diversify to achieve better growth
The government today asked farmers to diversify into horticulture, animal husbandry and fisheries saying it is necessary to achieve more than 4 per cent growth in agriculture. To achieve 8 per cent
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UPOV invites India to join club
The Geneva-based office of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has said India, which has introduced a law granting plant breeders rights, is now free to join
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Basmati gets steaming again
Ill-informed MPs, scare-mongering NGOs and a sensationalist media have raked up the Basmati rice patent controversy yet again. It is being claimed that the US has granted a patent for Basmati to
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'16 lakh covered under TPDS so far'
Food and Civil Supplies Minister Yoganand Shastri said on Thursday that 16.35 lakh people had been covered in the first phase of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS). These people are being
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Notice to govt on bollworm attack
Some local lawyers in Hisar have filed a suit against the Haryana government seeking immediate remedy against the American bollworm attack on cotton
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World lacks will to conquer hunger: UN
The world lacks the commitment to feed its people and the war on hunger is being lost, according to the UN food agency. A World Food Summit held five years ago set the goal of halving world hunger by
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Lanka loses faith in magic seed
When Sri Lanka banned 21 Genetically-modified foods for health reasons in May, the government came under intense pressure front the United States and others to withdraw its unprecedented ban. Within
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Chinese farmers appeal for snakes and frogs
Farmers in western China have appealed for 5,000 snakes, 20,000 sparrows and 200,000 frogs to fight a swarm of locusts. The official Xinhua news agency quoted Bi Fubin, who was seeking the locust
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Phased out Bt corn variety harmed caterpillars
Pollen from a Bt corn variety carrying a now phased out genetically inserted pesticide known as event 176 "dramatically reduced" growth rates among black swallowtail caterpillars in University of
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Scientists fear new threat to butterflies from Bt corn
Four experts on biotech crops and monarch butterflies have urged the Environmental Protection Agency to renew Bt corn registrations for only one year and to investigate a new risk the plant may pose
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Studies fuel fracas over engineered corn
New studies on the impact of genetically engineered corn on monarch butterflies say the corn is having virtually no effect. The papers also make the provocative claim that earlier studies raising the
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MoU signed for hybrid vegetable seeds
The West Bengal State Food Processing and Horticulture Development Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding with Bejo Sheetal Seeds, a Maharashtra-based company, for production of hybrid
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Planters urge Govt to modify policies
The core issue facing the plantation industry is "high cost and low realisation", according to Mr E. K. Joseph, President, United Planters' Association of Southern India (UPASI), and he called for
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Sonia fays Centre's apathy
While the Congress party president Sonia Gandhi today fired a salvo against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government for "closing both its eyes and ears" to the problems of farmers,
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Karnataka to set up farm export zones
The Karnataka government has approached the Centre for clearance to set up five agri-export zones to exploit the growing markets for gerkins, rose onions, bananas, grapes and pomegranate. This is in
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Govt yet to win 'Basmati' battle.
While the government has managed to thwart attempt made by a US company to patent traditional rice lines of India, the former is yet to win the battle regarding the protection of the name "Basmati"